Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: H

Terms Letter: H


HEX - Hexadecimal color system
The most commonly used way to define colors in the Web. It is a system that defines colors based on their RGB values and associates a two digit hexadecimal number with each base color (red, green and blue). For example #FFFFFF is representation of white in HEX

Hit
In the context of a web site a "hit" is used to describe a single request made by a web browser. It can be a request either for an image or HTML document or any other document residing on the web site. So a visit to a single web page can result to several hits,…