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what does unique mean? (7 posts)

Topic tags: Analytics, Insights

Ann at greenoak said
1 year ago:
IN INSIGHTS, WHEN FACEBOOK explains total reach they say it means that X unique people saw the page during the week…………. if A PERSON saw the page every day of the week…would that count as 1 unique person or 7?
this is so convoluted to me…. i imagine each day counts as a seperate view but thats not what unique means in the real world…
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Ben said
1 year ago:
That will count as 1 unique visitor and when the customers come back they will be counted as returning visitors so if for example you look at google analytics for your website visitors it usually shows for example 1000 uniques visitors and 200 returning, I hope that helps.
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Kyros Vogiatzoglou said
1 year ago:
In computing terminology, unique visit or unique person means “user”. If I visit your page 500 times, no matter when I do it, I am a unique visitor who made 500 visits.
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Ann at greenoak said
1 year ago:
@kyros_v thanks,,,i thought i understood unique as you esplained… thatws how it is on statcounter which i use instead of google…… but ,, im pretty sure facebook counts you over and over,,, meaning they count you as unique this week/ counts you again the next week………. otherwise i would have 30 or 40,000 unique viewers out of my 2800 fans….
this week i had a reach of 6000 …. that seems way too high out of 2800 fans… thats why i wondered if they counoted the viewer every day of the week they measure….also i have about 30 posts in a week….
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Ann at greenoak said
1 year ago:
@webhostingreviews thanks ben…. so im supposed to think i get 6000 unique visitors every week, out of my 2800 fans? that would be over 140,000 unique visitors over a years time….maybe facebook does it different…,,,
my insight page says i reached 6000 unique people last week…i cant get this number figured out….one way it makes sense is if they count a connection ever day they visit within the week……
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Eddy Sleiman said
1 year ago:
Frankly it means only a word that has been used and abused especially on Facebook traffic calculations
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Ann at greenoak said
1 year ago:
ha ha… good point….i looked over this with my tekk person and we are sure it doesnt really mean what unique used to mean like on google or stat counter…..like eddy says above, the clasic definition of unique in web talk has been made a little murky……..
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