Re: TECH: French Web Translation Help

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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