Once again, it’s the monthly edition of the post that no one but I care about – the web stats post!  This time powered by Google Analytics!

This month was an interesting month as I think a certain editorial of mine plus starting to comment more on other anime blogs has finally started in my blog actually becoming known to people who live outside of my apartment (and I’m the only one who lives there), so that’s a good thing.

It’s hard to tell what my traffic for this month is compared to last because it’s both my first full month at a new host, and the first time I’m using Google Analytics, so absolutely no comparisons to past months this time.   Also, since this is a javascript based program, there are pluses and minuses.  The pluses are that any hits of mine in the admin area don’t count, only hits to actual pages.  The minuses include the fact that it won’t track things like how many times my podcasts are downloaded (I still have to look at awstats for that).

In any case, let’s look at August’s webstats:

Visits: 1,480 (That’s just under 48 a day)
Page Views: 3,715 (That’s just under 120 a day)
Pages per Visit: 2.51 (that’s a cool stat to have)
Absolute Unique Visitors: 1,141

My top 5 days as far as visits were:

1. Thursday, August 2 (84)
2. Wednesday, August 29 (81)
3. Friday, August 31 (76)
4. Wednesday, August 1 & Thursday, August 30 (71)
5. Friday, August 3 (64)

So basically the first 3, and the last 3 days of the month.

While it’s not surprising that most visitors visit only 1 page, and stay for only “0-10 seconds” – basically they hit the page, read it, then leave, I think I have a decent number of people who stay longer.  25% of visitors are listed as staying a minute or longer, with around 15% staying over 2 minutes, and nearly 10% staying for over 10 minutes (though, admittedly, how many of those are me, I don’t know).   Also, almost 40% of visitors visit 2 more more pages, with 25% visiting 3 or more, 16% visiting 4 or more, and 12% visiting 5 or more.

Thanks to my having my Otakon stuff linked to from the Otakon website, they were my #1 source of hits this month, followed by THAT Anime Blog, Sea Slugs! Anime Blog, and Neko Kyou’s Anime Blog (probably helped by the fact that the latter 2 now link to my blog. Yay!)

Other than the homepage and category pages, the most visited post, by far, was My Otakon 2007 Pictures post, with 189 pageviews.  This was followed by More on anime “pride” with 96 views, Fall 2007 Anime Preview with 82 views, and Why bother? with 74 views.   My most read episode review was School Days – Episode 08 with 55 views.

Not shockingly, most visitors were from the United States, with Canada coming in a clear 2nd.  The UK came in 3rd, with Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the Philippines, Germany, France, and Sweden all sending me several viewers (in order of most to least).

Within the United States, California sent my webpage the most viewers, followed by Virginia (where I am, just to note), New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maryland, and Georgia.

For while I just kind of let my blog sit there, hoping people would come, but now I’ve been trying things like this Google Sitemap and trying to comment on other blogs more, and the like hoping to get more attention to this blog, and it seems to have somewhat worked, and I hope this trend continues.