Hourly statistics

The Hourly Statistics report provides a by-the-hour breakdown of visits to your blog for the past week or a previous month. You can use it to determine what times of day people tend to visit your blog.

1.	Click the Dashboard tab.

2.	From the options listed below the Dashboard tab, click the Site Stats link. The Web Stats page opens.

3.	From the Detailed Stats section, click Hourly Stats to open its page:

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To change the number of days for which hourly stats are displayed, click beside the Display the hourly stats for drop-down list box, select a time period option, then click the Display button. The screen refreshes, and the following statistics for each hour of the day for the selected time period are displayed:

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Data Sent

Whenever some views a page on your blog, information is transferred from the system's servers to their computer. This statistic is a measure of the amount of transferred information during that hour for the selected period.

To give you a sense of perspective, both Tolstoy's novel War and Peace and a typical medium-to-high quality picture taken on a 3-megapixel camera at 2016-by-1512 resolution are each said to represent 1 million bytes (or 1 megabyte) of data.

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Visitors

This is the average number of individual computers that accessed at least one page of your blog during that hour for the selected period.

Note that while you can use this number to estimate the number of readers you had on a particular day or month, it counts computers, not people. A computer that gets used by several people who all read your blog still counts as just one distinct host.

•	HTML requests

This is the average number of pages from your blog viewed using a web browser during that hour for the selected period.

•	XML requests

This is the average number of pages from your blog viewed using a news aggregator during that hour for the selected period.

•	Total page views

This is the average sum of all the pages viewed during that hour for the selected period.

5.	To view other detailed statistics, click one of the links in the left panel under the calendar.