Web Statistics for www.virtue.to

September 2003:  I haven't had a lot of time for web-navel-gazing lately, but the occasional check on the usage rates seems to be showing a steady increase since I last ran them.

Sections on this page:
Page view stats
Most popular pages: 2000: Q3Q2Q1  2001: Q1, Q2
Reprint requests
About "hit rates" and "page views"
The Feast Survey Stats are separate from my own page counts.


I can't tell you how many individuals use my pages on a monthly basis, because that would take cookies, and I don't think there's any need for that sort of data.  I can say, based on an IP number analysis by my Programmer, that the population of readers reflects 17,000 IP numbers from 14,000 different networks for March 2001.  That's a minimum user number; under this method  500 people from AOL would just count as one IP number count in that 17,000.

So now we know that the page view count is not the work of 30 maniacs who read them 120 times per day, but may instead be the work of 17,000 maniacs who read it 2-3 times a month.

Graphic version of webstats
Period
Page-views/month
Avg. per day
January 2000
before logging
--
February 2000
6,638
23
March 2000
11,621
375
April 2000
14,618
487
May 2000
15,448
498
June 2000
15,195
507
July 2000
17,141
553
August 2000
17,431*
562
September 2000
18,565**
619
October 2000
24,444
815
November 2000
20,566
686
December 2000
12,023
388
January 2001
26,597
858
February 2001
29,786
1064
March 2001
39,286#
1267
April 2001
38,924
1297
May 2001
67,984
2193
June 2001
35,547
1185

* Pennsic caused a significant reduction in traffic on SCA-related email lists and newsgroups during August (50% to 75% of messages), so I am expecting that the September hits will restore the growth line.  Then again, there must be a finite number of people interested in medieval clothing!
** It looks like my guess was right.  Interestingly, a mention of the Extant page on rec.org.sca increased that one's hits by almost 400 hits. 
#This number includes the 169 hits for Tangwystl's article, and will include it (and any other guest articles) until that page gets much larger.


Top 9 pages, their total hits and % of total monthly hits (rounded to full percents)
 
Q2 2001
Braiding 8188
21%




Articles Index 3995
10%




Extant Clothing 2667
7%




Beginner's Garb 1562
4%




Virtue.to index 1350
3%



 
Coif 1020
3%




Men's Hats 1009
3%




Veils 997
3%




Modern Patterns 908
2%





 
Q1 2001
January
February
March
Braiding 6651
25%
Braiding 6775
23%
Braiding 7977
20%
Articles Index 2359
9%
Articles Index 2850
10%
Articles Index 4061
10%
Extant 1868
7%
Extant Garments 2255
8%
Extant 2938
7%
Main (Virtue.to) 1113
4%
Main 1404
5%
Beginning Garb 1528
4%
Beginning Garb 834
3%
Beginning Garb 1089
4%
Virtue.to 1366
3%
Coif 773
3%
Coif 773
3%
Coif 1077
3%
Men's Hats 730
3%
Men's Hats 764
3%
Men's Hats 1061
3%
Veils 716
3%
Veils 698
2%
Veils 958
2%
Modern Patterns 668
3%
Modern Patterns 672
2%
Women's roll hats 921
2%
Q4 2000
October
November
December
Braiding 4974
20%
Braiding 4647
23%
Braiding 2994
25%
Articles Index 2324
10%
Articles Index 1778
9%
Articles Index 939
8%
Extant 1677
7%
Extant Garments 1421
7%
Extant 752
6%
Main (Virtue.to) 1073
4%
Main 1031
5%
Main 513
4%
Modern Patterns 859
4%
Beginning Garb 622
3%
Men's Hats 383
3%
Coif 853
3%
Coif 589
3%
Beginning Garb 367
3%
Basic Garb 758
3%
Men's Hats 570
3%
Coif 346
3%
Women's Stuffed hats 662
3%
Women's Stuffed 537
3%
Women's Stuffed 322
3%
Veils 643
3%
Modern Patterns 531
3%
Hoodlum 278
2%
Q3 2000
July
August
September  
Braiding 4668
27%
Braiding 5036
29%
Braiding 4711
25%
Articles Index 1311
8%
Articles index 1007
6%
Articles Index 1611
9%
Virtue.to index 877
5%
Virtue.to Index 806
5%
Extant Garments 1150
6%
Extant 800
5%
Extant 762
4%
Virtue.to Index  770
4%
Veils 678
4%
Modern Patterns 650
4%
Beginning Garb 682
4%
Modern Patterns 466 
3%
Coif 522 
3%
Modern Patterns 631
3%
Beginning Garb 420
2%
Beginning Garb 499
3%
Coif  610
3%
Coif 415
2%
Veils 418
2%
Women's Roll Hats 443
2%
Muffin-head 401
2%
Women's Roll Hats 386
2%
Men's Hats 415
2%

 
Q2 2000
April
May
June
Braiding 5666 
39%
Braiding 6058 
39%
Braiding 4956
33%
Medieval Burger King 1293 
9%
Virtue.to index 877 
6%
Articles Index 1029
7%
Virtue.to index 1084 
7%
Articles Index 850 
6%
Extant 966
6%
Articles Index 665 
5%
Extant 842 
5%
Virtue.to index 765
5%
Extant 527 
4%
Modern Patterns 458 
3%
Beginning Garb 459
3%
Modern Patterns 287 
2%
Coif 420 
3%
Coif 419
3%
Hoodlum 248 
2%
Beginning Garb 363 
2%
Modern Patterns 414
3%
Coif 243 
2%
Arnolfini 295 
2%
Veils 398
3%
Circle Houp 229 
2%
Women's Roll Hats 291 
2%
Circle houp 354
2%
Q1 2000


February
March
Braiding 2488 
38%
Braiding 3162
27%
Virtue.to index 526 
8%
Virtue.to index 878 
8%
Articles Index 503
8%
Articles Index 855 
7%
Coif 198 
3%
Extant Garments 815 
7%
Hoodlum 195 
3%
Circle Houp 399 
3%
Wire Circlet 177
3%
Coif  331 
3%
Beginning Garb 174 
3%
Arnolfini 286 
2%
Circle Houp 172 
3%
Hoodlum 269 
2%
Arnolfini 171
3%
Poulaines 267 
2%

If you're curious about the raw data for everything, drop me a note and I can send it to you.



I get a few requests to reprint my articles in local newsletters or for classes, or in documentation for A&S contests, usually 4-7 each month.  And somewhere between 1-12 "fan emails" per month as well.  I'm glad folks enjoy the site.


About the hit-rate, from my pet programmer. (Ok, so he's my husband....)

Usually, a "hit" is defined as someone who successfully gets a resource (file) from your site.  This is the term that used to be used for comparing sites' popularity, but then people figured out that it made sites with more images in their pages look more popular, since each image was a separate resource. (For example, Virtue.to's "hit rate" by this method for Q1'00 would be ten times higher than the "page view" rate.)

Nowadays, Web Professionals talk about hits only in the context of server performance; for any kind of popularity numbers, you use page views instead: a page view is one person seeing your page once.  Of course, that gets harder to measure, what with caches and all; the number the report generates from the logs is "a browser asks for a page [not an image], and either  gets it or gets told it hasn't changed".

So a "hit counter" would more accurately be called a "page view counter"; it's just an inertia thing.


Feast Survey Stats:

October 2000
Total Hits:  1,839.  Of this, hits to the Index page: 577
November 2000
Total: 659.  Of this, Index page (ie, main page) 127.
December 2000
Total: 333.  Of this, Index page 78.
January 2001
Total: 806.  Of this, Index page 153.
February: 605; of this, Index 128.
March: 537; of this, Index, 137
April, 943; Index 245

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