Figured it out
Sunday, July 08 2012 @ 02:13 AM CDT

Rapid, multiple clicking on a song title quickly adds to the number of "hits". I tried it on 2 songs, not my own. I wondered how some songs got 750 hits in a short period of time.

I will not be doing it, ever, just thought I'd share. Perhaps the mods can fix this exploitable feature.

Re:Figured it out
Sunday, July 08 2012 @ 02:44 AM CDT

Have you tried using the "reload" page in your browser? Does the same. Basically, a "hit" is a view of the page, nothing more and as such, I doubt there is much the site admin can do about this rather flawed measure of popularity, if you see it as such.

In my experience, rather than someone sitting hitting reload for ages.. the song keywords (used for search engines) are more likely to have an influence on song page "hits" and can explain some rapid escalations in song hits and song hits running wildly away from "song plays", wether intentional or not.

Song plays, favs or best of all "downloads" (the other provided alternatives) are better gauges imo, if you desire some "gauge" at all.

Re:Figured it out
Monday, July 09 2012 @ 04:12 PM CDT

Quote by: apb Basically, a "hit" is a view of the page, nothing more ...

A hit is even more granular then a page view. It is a count of all of the resources (images, stylesheets, javascript files etc) that are required to display the page. Hits are useless don't even worry about them.

See this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics

"Hit - A request for a file from the web server. Available only in log analysis. The number of hits received by a website is frequently cited to assert its popularity, but this number is extremely misleading and dramatically over-estimates popularity. A single web-page typically consists of multiple (often dozens) of discrete files, each of which is counted as a hit as the page is downloaded, so the number of hits is really an arbitrary number more reflective of the complexity of individual pages on the website than the website's actual popularity. The total number of visitors or page views provides a more realistic and accurate assessment of popularity."

Re:Figured it out
Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 01:13 AM CDT

Quote by: dave_b A single web-page typically consists of multiple (often dozens) of discrete files, each of which is counted as a hit as the page is downloaded, so the number of hits is really an arbitrary number more reflective of the complexity of individual pages on the website than the website's actual popularity.

Very true, however typically a Macjams song page either doesn't have multiple resources or this is accounted for, because, if you reload (or click the song title) the Macjams song "Hits" measure (which I believe Bent is referring to) appears to only step by +1 (at least for me), not +n.

Hence, basically, a "hit" (here on a Macjams song page) is equivalent to 1 view of the (song) page.

I agree, useless measure of popularity, and thus best ignored.

Re:Figured it out
Tuesday, July 10 2012 @ 09:25 AM CDT

Quote by: apb Quote by: dave_b A single web-page typically consists of multiple (often dozens) of discrete files, each of which is counted as a hit as the page is downloaded, so the number of hits is really an arbitrary number more reflective of the complexity of individual pages on the website than the website's actual popularity. Very true, however typically a Macjams song page either doesn't have multiple resources or this is accounted for, because, if you reload (or click the song title) the Macjams song "Hits" measure (which I believe Bent is referring to) appears to only step by +1 (at least for me), not +n. Hence, basically, a "hit" (here on a Macjams song page) is equivalent to 1 view of the (song) page. I agree, useless measure of popularity, and thus best ignored.

After repeating your test I agree that MJ is counting requests for a page as a "hit", not the resources that make that page up. The counter updates right away so I don't think it distinguishes between requests from a browser and requests from a web crawler like Google bot.

A song page definitely has multiple resources.