What is the difference between "service hits" and "local connections"

I look at 1 service within an owner

and the hits are much less than connections

sh summaryO OS-Web Active PRDA01 43

PRDOA02 42

PRDA07 43-------------------

Name: PRDA07 Index: 15

Type: Local State: Alive

Rule ( 192.168.7.4 ANY 8888 )

Session Redundancy: Disabled

Redirect Domain:

Redirect String:

Keepalive: (TCP-8888 5 3 5 )

Keepalive Encryption: Disabled

Last Clearing of Stats Counters: 02/09/2009 06:42:19

Mtu: 1500 State Transitions: 28

Total Local Connections: 369 Total Backup Connections: 0

Current Local Connections: 2 Current Backup Connections: 0

Total Connections: 369 Max Connections: 65534

Total Reused Conns: 0

Weight: 1 Load: 8