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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.
Period
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Page-views/month
|
Avg. per day |
January 2000
|
before logging
|
--
|
February 2000
|
6,638
|
23
|
March 2000
|
11,621
|
375
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April 2000
|
14,618
|
487
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May 2000
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15,448
|
498
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June 2000
|
15,195
|
507
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July 2000
|
17,141
|
553
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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
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January 2001
|
26,597
|
858
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February 2001
|
29,786
|
1064
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March 2001
|
39,286#
|
1267
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April 2001
|
38,924
|
1297
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May 2001
|
67,984
|
2193
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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 |
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|
|
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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