Visitor and Unique IP numbers

Aloha,

I’m trying to figure out what the visitor, page view and unique IP numbers mean. They are all over the board. Today my pageviews and unique IP’s are shooting through the roof. Pageviews are twice my all time high and unique IP’s are about 6 times my all time high and the site is barely a month old. This is in the Overview tab.

But when I look at the Visitors tab, the visits is normal at around 25. But unique IP’s is easily 12 times what usually shows in the Visitors tab.

My final question is about why the unique IP’s usually show much lower in the Visitors tab than in the Overview tab. This has been the history, but today they are closer.

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