Sometimes, your content could be directly accessed from a special kind of applications known with different names (news aggregators, feed readers, RSS readers, etc.), but with a common feature: aggregate feeds from different sources. More information about that kind of software could be found here: Wikipedia.
b2evolution is able to identify hits that come from links displayed in those applications, and they are summarized in screen and displayed using a bar graph. The daily total should match with the value displayed in the column RSS/Atom of Global Hits Summary.
Data set
- Live Data: Data from the hitlog table that gets updated in Real Time.
- Aggregate Data: Data from the hitlog aggregate table that gets updated once per day, when the scheduled Task Prune old hits & sessions (includes OPTIMIZE).
Comparison
The second graph offers a visual comparison of the latest hits (top graph) with a previous period (bottom graph)