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Definition<\/span><\/h2>\n

Unique visitors is the term used for a marketing metric that records the number of individual viewers to one or more of a website\u2019s pages within a selected time period.\n<\/p>\n

This metric only counts the views in terms of the number of individual visitors who have viewed the website. It does not record the number of times each visitor viewed the website. Therefore, it provides a different indication of viewing statistics to the number of times that a page has been viewed.\n<\/p>\n

It is important to note that the main flaw with this unit of measurement is the fact that the same user would be classed as two different unique visitors if they accessed your website from two different IP addresses. The same effect would occur if a user visited the site from two separate devices, or even from two different browsers (e.g. Chrome and Firefox).\n<\/p>\n

The number of unique visitors to your website or page is calculated over a specific time period. Typically, this is within a month. Alternatively, you could measure how many unique visitors you acquire over anything from a couple of days to several months. Then, you can check your growth (or the success of any campaigns that you may have been implementing) by comparing the number of unique visitors that you currently receive against previous time periods of the same length.\n<\/p>\n

What counts as a \u2018visit\u2019?<\/span><\/h2>\n

A \u2018visit\u2019 is simply when a visitor accesses one of your website pages from a source that is external to your website itself. This most commonly occurs when a user is on the URL of a different website, and then follows a link to your page from there. Or, a visitor may have also typed in the URL for your website directly.\n<\/p>\n

A typical example of the former would be by finding your website from the results of a search engine.\n<\/p>\n

Once a visitor has reached your website through this external source, this is the point that their \u2018visit\u2019 starts. This visit concludes at the point when they cease to be on your website URL. This could occur if they close the browser tab, or visit another website.\n<\/p>\n

The difference between visits and unique visitors<\/span><\/h2>\n

The traffic<\/a> that a website receives during a given period can be measured in two different ways. You can either calculate this in terms of visits or unique visitors.\n<\/p>\n

The number of visits involves calculating how many times users visit your website. So, an individual could visit your website once, and then re-visit the site again the next day, and this would be classed as two visits by one visitor.\n<\/p>\n

Whereas the number of unique visitors is a calculation of the number of individuals who have chosen to access your page, regardless of the number of times. As a result, this calculation provides a more accurate insight into the extent of the outreach that your site has achieved.\n<\/p>\n

How to calculate the number of unique visitors<\/span><\/h2>\n

A unique visitor to a website is identified through the usage of cookies. This is because cookies contain their own unique browser identification. This anonymous identifier acts as an ID which can then be used to track any new visitors to a site.\n<\/p>\n

There are several different online tools that organizations can use to calculate how many unique visitors their website receives. These tools provide users with an insight into the traffic levels of their company site, and how these rates are fluctuating over a given period.\n<\/p>\n

Tools that can be used to undertake this type of data analytics include:\n<\/p>\n