Unique Hits?

[Arena Rodent]

hey just a quick question, when on my site stats it says "unique hits" is that per day or overall? like if the same people who looked at the site yesterday come back on does it count as another unique? or is it overall unique hits like if they check back the next day it only counds as a page hit?

Thanks

Bryan Maynard
Crazy Exotics
www.crazyexotics.com
Halifax, Nova Scotia

[WebSlave]

My spec to the developer was that unique hits would be unique IP addresses that accessed the site within a 24 hour period. This gives a more accurate reading of actual unique visitors coming to a site.

[Arena Rodent]

it does? ud think if it said how many NEW unique hits came that day it would be better, if I have the same 30 people looking at my site each day it would look like 90 new people after 3 days?

[Arena Rodent]

or do I have this completly wrong? lol

[WebSlave]

If you have a programming background, you would know why what you suggest would be a LOT more complicated to implement.