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Hits
The number of times a Web page sitting on a server has been accessed. A server answers this number of individual requests in order to render a Web page completely. If a Web page contains a number of elements, each element is counted as an individual hit. The more hits, the more successful your Web page!


HTML Hypertext Mark-up Language
HTML is the scripting language that is used to create Web pages. It is a high level computing language that is interpreted in a browser. It consists of tags that are used to describe the formatting in the page. HTML can also incorporate multimedia elements such as graphics, digital video, sound and animations.


HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP is the protocol used for browsing Web pages on the Internet. Typing http:// into a browser tells the software that this is the protocol that you are going to use.