Yes, once again it’s the post that no one cares about but me, and thats….the web stats post!
This is my 2nd month using Google Analytics, and during this past month I started using a plug-in which is supposed to not count visits to my own site as long as I’m signed in as an admin (well, actually it’s just a google analytics plug-in, and that’s one of it’s options). That’s nice cause I’ve always wondered how much of my traffic was, well, me lol.
Despite this, visits, page views, and absolute unique visitors are all up, I’m happy to say:
Visits: 2,055 (+38.9%)
Page Views: 4,476 (+20.5%)
Unique visitors: 1,527 (33.8%)
Almost 40% increase in visitors, 20% increase in hits, and over 30% gain in unique visitors? And this is with it not counting me for most of the month, supposedly (with one less day to count too!). Wow!
Oh, that’s 68.5 visits a day, 149.2 page views a day, and 50.9 unique visitors a day.
Pages per visit is down a little bit (to 2.17 p/v from 2.51), but I guess that probably comes from more people visiting, and a larger share of those hitting one page or two then leaving.
My Top 5 Days in September for visits were:
- Thursday, September 27 (153)
- Sunday, September 30 (101)
- Friday, September 28 (96)
- Friday, September 14 (91)
- Friday, September 21 (89)
I think I have a relatively healthy cross-section of places from which people are visiting me. The top website people are visiting me from are:
- m.3.3.w. Fansubs (146)
- Sea Slugs! Anime Blog (102)
- cbox (really just an extension for m.3.3.w. since they use that chat) (55)
- Random Curiosity (53)
- Otakon (44)
I’ve also gotten over 1,000 hits from google searches, many apparently looking for my Fall 2007 Anime Preview.
Not surprisingly, most visitors are from the US, but I did get visits from 73 different countries. The nations with double-digit number of visits include the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Thailand, Finland, Indonesia, Chile, Romania, Poland, and Spain.
Within the United States, the winner is California, followed by Virginia, New York, Texas, and North Carolina. I got visits from 45 of the 50 states (shame on you New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and Wyoming!) I got double-digit visits from 23 states.
Firefox still makes up the bulk of the browsers visiting my site at 53.7%, followed by IE at 38.4% and Opera at a surprising 4.8% (I guess I should make sure it works in Opera…). Windows, shockingly, makes up 94% of the OS visits.
My webpage is also still designed for 800×600, so that 5-6% of you using resolutions around that size…be thankful! To the other 95% of you with higher resolutions….sorry if the site looks too small (it looks fine on my 1024 screen though).
Finally, to my “top content.” Here are my top 5 pages, excluding the home page and category/archived listings:
- Fall 2007 Anime Preview (8/29)
- We’ll Finally Get School Days 12 Tomorrow (9/26)
- School Days - Episode 11 (9/14)
- School Days - Episode 08 (8/23)
- Otakon 2007 Pictures (7/31)
All in all, I’d say it was a very good September.
3 Comments
cool man, cool.
web stats really does show you the numbers. =D
The site looks fine on 1280×1024. It’s not always necessary to cram every little inch with space, so the extra open areas actually help with readability =).
Don’t forget that not everyone browses maximized.
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