Hit:

Request from a Web server for a graphic or other element to be displayed on a web page.  Sometimes the misleading term hit is not the same as a visitor.

A visitor is looking around at all the elements on a page, but hits only count the cold hard numbers of how many times sometime loads.  [...]

In my hustle and bustle lately, I neglected to realize that I’ve been blogging “semi-pro” as I refer to it for a full year.  I went back to see some of my earlier posts from last August and was reminded of this one - Hats, Hats, Everywhere! Could it be that it was just a [...]

Sessionization:

Refers to methods used to define a session (includes cookies, IP address, IP+Agent and others) telling the analytics system how to measure - or not measure - a series of page requests from the same individual or browsing machine.

In order to be able to track visitors accurately, you need to make sure you’re not counting [...]