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Re: TECH: French Web Translation Help

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Saturday, July 22, 2006, 16:19
On 7/22/06, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> -Ko: Appears to be an abbreviation, and appears to be something > not favorable... My guess was this is the term used when someone > is on one of your pages and has clicked off of it onto a totally > different url. Correct?
Probably "kilooctet(s)". That is, units of 1000 (or 1024) eight-bit units. Nowadays practically synonymous with "kilobytes" (bytes with more or fewer than 8 bits being used by vanishingly few systems, at least in my experience), though people writing network protocols sometimes use the term "octets" even in English.
> -Fichier: Unique hits?
Standard computer-French for "file". I believe it's also standard French for "file"-the-non-computer-term; that is, a file of documents on someone/something or other.
> -Hits: Obviously I know what the English translation of this is, > but what exactly is a hit? Just when someone clicks on a site? > > -Visite: Okay, this is a visit, but is there a difference between a > visit and a hit--and a fichier?
You'll have to ask your webstats software, as definitions differ even in English. However, I'll guess that the difference is that "hits" is page accesses, while "visits" is *series* of page accesses. For example, if I start at your main page, then click on a link on that page, then on another link on the resulting page, it'd be three hits but one visit. (NB: counting hits is easy; grouping hits into visits is hard in general due to how HTTP works -- software has to use heuristics. Don't trust any web statistics you didn't forge yourself.)
> -Page d'entree/page de sortie: Are these the pages that people > who start looking at the site start with, and those who finish > looking at the site finish with?
That's how I'd interpret it.
> Also, what might a "livre d'or" be? Gold book?
Literally, yes! Idiomatically, I believe it's what's usually called a "guest book" in English. In real life, a book where visitors leave remarks in; in web lingo, a page where visitors do the same. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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