Blog: It’s Stats time

Wooh! On Saturday night, as I was getting ready to go out (more on that, maybe, later) I thought it’ll be an ideal time to consider looking at my blog stats and see what observations could be made. As per, what seems to now be usual, Neil did his whilst I was still in the bath! Curse him. Then I thought I’d leave it until the 6th of December (as it’ll then have been a month since I started my blog), but I realised today/yesterday (Sunday) that my blog logs were analysed on a monthly basis. Rather that p– about either generating odd-timed log statistics or get out the old fingers’n’thumbs: I now present my first month of stats (with some of the text nicely plagiarised from Neil)! Woo!

During November I had a total of 12,658 hits, or 1,838 visits – that averages out at 666 hits/96 visits per day. This month has seen 121Mb of traffic to the 89 entries and 16 comments.

The following stats do not include articles/entries when they are displayed on the front page: The most popular article by far was the “Pick On George Bush!” page, with 334 hits. That page alone generated 2.1Mb of traffic. The second most popular was the about “The Mystery Of Time And Space Game” (complete with walk-through solution) with 257 hits (4.1Mb of traffic). “Nigerian Jerry Duruibe: Day 1“, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 were the third, fourth, fifth and sixth most popular respectively (producing 467 hits/6.1Mb traffic).

Google provided the bulk of my referrals (441 of them), with 127 hits from Xanga (but I don’t yet know why), 123 coming from the previously mentioned Q4Music thread (where a copy of the George Bush photo had been ‘leeched’ from my server), 115 from Slashdot. Neil helped lead 25 wandering minstrels this way, whilst “Is My Blog Hot Or Not?” provided 12 links.

115 people came searching for “george bush binoculars” or similar, whilst 96 lost people were seeking the “mystery of time and space walkthrough“. However, I’m puzzled how people found my site via search words such as “who want to be a millionare download”, “alicia silverstone outlook stationary” and “ps2 backups tutorials” as, until now, those particular words don’t appear in my blog.

The scary thing is, I had 31 hits from the US Government and 21 from the US military gulp. Windows users accounted for the majority of the requests (316 pages), whilst UNIX/Linux users only accounted for 32 pages (Macs were next with 22 pages).