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September 07, 2003
Damned statistics
Well - it seems like the urge for introspection calls - I've noticed a few people of late being self-analytical about their journals - but specifically that type of analysis brought about by an examination of web server stats. Once again - Diamond Geezer sets a self-congratulatory trend to summarise a year-full of blog visits and referrals. This stimulated me into doing some of my own - although I don't have year full of stats on my current domain (route79.com) to go by - since before that it was hosted as a sub-section of my Views from Broadway site. But, I have just over 4 months worth - and what more suitable a point in time to perform my first-quarter analysis. In fact - I've decided to provide a permanent link in my left-hand side-bar (under MISC LINKS) to my stats pages.Webmasters statement for the last quarter: Over 8000 visitors have arrived here delivering over 28,000 page impressions amounting to 1.8 Gigabytes of traffic sent from my site to nearly 4000 different directions on the Internet and nearly 400 different types/versions of web browser. The average number of daily visits to Route 79 bubbles under a hundred per day, with the majority (up to 25%) coming in as "direct requests" (perhaps from people's browser "favourites" menu - or typed out by hand) and the rest being mostly made up of referrals from search engines (mainly Google and Yahoo). Only a handful of visits are made as clickthroughs from other people's blogs - and when they are - the majority of those tend to be people clicking through from comments boxes where I might have left comments. Since a significant number of hits come in from search engines - it's worth examining for a minute the search terms used - in some cases they are entertaining - in others simply perplexing. Here are some interesting ones: (I have grouped together similar search terms. And I have hyperlinked those Google searches that present Route 79 pages in the first page of search results. The ones in *bold* are the ones that, as of today, Google ranks number 1 in the search index for!) transvision vamp, transvision band, wendy james transvision vamp, transvision vamp video download *arty graffiti*, *graffiti fume*, fume london graffiti, him fume, *fume graffiti* retro television, british retro, retro television 50 reasons london beautiful israeli men blog prefab sprout friendship comment i pull on my jeans and i feel all right lyric, jeans on song, jeans on kid bbc mr benn theme musical hit back to life back to reality pictures of cute policemen pictures of the english countryside quirky facts tivo changed my life matrix ping pong, ping pong matrix-stylee, *original matrix ping pong* artistic photographs of legs, leg photos, *legs project*, legs, legs gallery, *legs picture*, gallery of legs, artistic photos legs -sex -xxx -porn -hardcore deja vu matrix route de cute song lyric shower curtain wake up time to die 5p coin bernard manning, bernard manning has always told racist jokes london buses indian dishes how to open a padlock origin of the word blog oystercard farah damji pictures of people with no legs cupro nickel hobson's choice brighouse benadryl bilingual wedding invitations
So - there you have it - an obligatory "thank you" to those of you who visit here regularly.
Posted by jag at September 7, 2003 04:42 PM