As I only started using Google Analytics in July 2007, 2008 is the first full calendar year that I have data, so, alas, I can’t make any comparisons to past years just yet.
However, to see all the statistical goodness for 2008, look below the fold.
Here are the core numbers:
Visits: 85,910
Page Views: 158,547
Absolute Unique Visitors: 64,751
Which translates into:
Visits/day: 234.7
Page Views/day: 433.2
AUV/day: 176.9
Now, onto more specific stats…
Top 10 busiest days of 2008 (in visits):
- July 3 (750)
- July 4 (640)
- December 19 (631)
- December 31 (610)
- July 8 (601)
- July 6 (590)
- December 30 (583)
- July 5 (566)
- July 7 (520)
- April 8 (513)
Just a note on this one…considerig that after July, my attention to this blog dropped precipitously due to school and the election (I’m a big politics buff) and didn’t really come back in any force until December, so that’s why I seemed to peak in July and then had a traffic dropoff until December. Still, it’s nice to see my traffic recovering pretty well despite the several months I essentially let the blog rot.
Top 5 busiest months (in visits)
- July (12,848)
- December (11,030)
- August (8,970)
- April (7,692)
- October (7,490)
Top 5 Non-Search Engine (and non-aggregator) sites from which I received traffic (in visits)
- m33w Fansubs (1,129)
- Sea Slugs Anime Blog (842)
- Otakon (720)
- Star Crossed Anime Blog (250)
- Welcome my Son, Welcome to the Machine (178)
Top 10 visited posts (in page views)
- Spring 2008 Anime Preview (2,048)
- Summer 2008 Anime Preview (1,759)
- Winter 2009 Anime Preview (1,620)
- Winter 2008 Anime Preview (1,228)
- Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Next Season – Episode 3 (1,152)
- Death Note Theater List (1,145)
- Candy Boy – Episode 2 (932)
- Candy Boy – Episode 1 (922)
- I Survived a Japanese Game Show (811)
- Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Next Season – Episode 1 (782)
Top 10 visited pages (in page views; excluding homepage)
- Category Archives: Doujin Work (2,493)
- Category Archives: Special A (2,077)
- Spring 2008 Anime Preview (2,048)
- Category Archives: Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Next Season (1,791)
- Summer 2008 Anime Preview (1,759)
- Category Archives: CLANNAD (1,623)
- Winter 2009 Anime Preview (1,620)
- Category Archives: 2008 Anime (1,560)
- List of Anime by Score (1,552)
- Alphabetical Anime Review List (1,458)
I find the fact that the Doujin Work main category page being the most visited page – and it is consistnetly so, even now – to be curious. The only thing I can figure is that people are searching for doujin or doujinshi and are landing on that page. Also, apparently people are still interested in my series reviews.
I had visits from 157 countries, with the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Philippines, Singapore, Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Japan, France, Italy, Netherlands, and Poland giving me at least 1,000 visits, for a total of 13 nations. 51 different nations gave me at least 100 visits on the year.
In the United States, California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia and Massachusetts all gave me at least 1,000 visitors, for a total of 12 states. 42 states gave me at least 100 visitors, while Wyoming brough up the rear with only 14 visits on the year.
In browser stats, 54.9% of all visitors this year were using Firefox, while 35% used some version of Internet Explorer, 4.4% used Opera, and 3.7% used Safari.
And finally, just for kicks, since I started tracking my stats using Google Analytics on July 24, 2007 (527 days if my math is right), I have the following stats:
Visits: 98,585
Page Views: 184,415
Absolute Unique Visitors: 73,817
