Dave's Top Eight

1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars)
2. Sounds Like Sunday by Janet Paschal (reviewed 5/07) (5 Stars)
3. True To The Call by Kingdom Heirs (reviewed 3/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
4. Revival by Gold City (reviewed 10/06) (4 1/2 Stars)
5. Get Away Jordan by Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (reviewed 2/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
6. Breakin' Chains by Three Bridges (reviewed 5/07) (4 1/2 Stars)
7. Big Sky by The Isaacs (reviewed 4/07)
8. Skywriting by Mercy's Well (reviewed 7/07)

Click title to purchase at CBD.com...click artist name to read Dave's Review. A CD will automatically fall out of the Top Eight after twelve months if no CD surpasses it before then.

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August 7, 2006

Stats

Your visits to Musicscribe re-surged in July to almost match the record high set earlier this year in March. Thanks for continuing to read Musicscribe!

A few words about stats...
I use Page Views for reporting stats because I feel it's a more accurate indicator of traffic than "hits."

A bit of terminology...
A "hit" is generated every time one element of a page loads. In contrast, a "page view" is only generated when the entire page loads. (Some sites prefer "unique visitor" stats.)

To show you how this works...
Let's assume one site has an average of 50 elements per page...not an outlandish number if a site sells banner ads and/or uses a lot of small graphics in their layout for visual effect. Let's assume a competing site is more conservative with graphics, averaging 10 elements per page. Every time a full page loads, the site with 50 elements gets 50 hits and the site with 10 gets 10 hits.

To put this in perspective, my 43000 page views for July would have translated into 2.15 million hits on a site averaging 50 graphics per page, but only 430000 on the site averaging 10. This is very misleading, in my opinion, because one site appears to be five times as popular as the other, when both had the same number of page views. That's why I'll mention page views from time to time, but I don't report hits.

(By the way, I do prefer Page View stats to Unique Visitor stats. Unique Visitor stats just show that X number of people visited the site. Page View stats show how many total pages were loaded, which translates into the number of opportunities a person had to read articles or click on an ad.)

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