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Site Statistics
March 2004
I don't update this
page very often, but here are some
statistics about my website from March of 2004. My website averages about
3,000 page visits a day, putting it in about the top 1% of all
websites worldwide. While I'd like to attribute that to my talents as a
writer, the truth is, if anyone dumps 4,000 photos into a website and then
writes 400 pages of gibberish like I have, they'll get a lot of traffic too.
Here are the
stats for March:
| Total Hits |
1,732,330 |
| Total Files |
1,545,833 |
| Total Pages |
91,333 |
| Total Visits |
57,295 |
| Pages per Visit |
1.56 |
| Total KBytes |
15,713,312 |
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Avg. |
Max.
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| Hits per Hour |
2,328 |
6,370 |
| Hits per Day |
55,881 |
72,333 |
| Files per Day |
49,897 |
63,879 |
| Pages per Day |
2,946 |
3,603 |
| Visits per Day |
1,848 |
2,260 |
| KBytes per Day |
506,881 |
661,812 |
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Definitions
Hit: Any file on a page
that's requested by a visitor. This includes .jpg and .gif
images. Because most of my pages have several files, such as
.jpg photos and .gif logos, a single page request can result in 10
or 15 hits.
File: Files actually
served to the visitor. Several people have links to my website
in their websites. However, some of these links are no longer
valid since I recently renamed some of my files and folders.
Therefore, if a visitor clicks on that link, they'll get an error
message saying "File Not Found." That "click" will generate
"hits" but no "files."
Page: You're looking at a
single page. If you click on any link that's on this page,
such as "Home," "Latest News," or if you click on your browser's
"Refresh" button, this number increases by one.
Visit: A person who visits
my website. If you leave my website and re-enter it, that's
counted as two visits.
Pages per Visit: The
average visitor reads about three pages before leaving. Of
course, some folks just read one page before deciding not to waste
any more time here. On the other hand, I've gotten several
e-mails from folks who've told me they stumbled on my website and
spent several hours reading through it. Obviously, these
people need to get a life.
Most popular pages
There are
over 400 pages in my website. Here are the 20 most-heavily visited
pages in March 2004. This list varies dramatically from month to
month, largely depending on how search engines index my pages.
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News:
March 16, 2002
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News:
August 8, 2001 (Page 2)
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Close-Ups
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News:
February 18, 2002
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News:
July 20, 2001
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My
10 Favorite National Park "Hidden Jewels:
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Utah:
Mormons and Polygamy
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Battle
of the Coral Sea (Summary)
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News:
July 22, 2001
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News:
August 17, 2001
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News:
August 30, 2001
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My
10 Favorite State Parks
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The
Most and Least Expensive Gas Stations in America
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My
20 Favorite Drives in the U.S.
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Latest
News
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News:
December 14, 2001
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USS
Neosho, Home Page
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News:
December 3, 2001 (Page 2)
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Funny
Photos: Australia
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Funny
Photos: United States
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How Do People Find My Website?
As you
probably know, most major search engines, like Google or Yahoo, let you
search for images (i.e., photos or .gif files) as well as for text.
In fact, most people find my website by searching for images, not text.
These are the top 5 referrers.
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Google (images)
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Yahoo (images)
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Yahoo (text)
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Altavista (images)
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Google (text)
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Most Popular Search Strings
During March
of 2004, visitors used 1,417 search strings to find my website.
Here are the 10 most popular search strings.
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banjo patterson
<Author of "Waltzing Matilda">
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waltons
mountain
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hungry jacks
<The Australian version of "Burger King">
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harriet
tubman
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humorous photos
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plane ticket
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arutanga
<The capital city of Aitutaki in the Cook
Islands>
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waltons
mountain virginia
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empty highway
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louisa may
alcott
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