Saturday, December 31, 2005
Year End Site Stats
I hardly ever post about site stats anymore, largely since I hardly ever look at them anymore. I never plug this site from the D2 site, or mail out links to try and get hits, or anything like that. I'm content trying to entertain the guys and girls who read BC regularly, and the random googlers who happen across it. Even with the much-improved Urchin stats that
came in a couple of months ago, I've seldom posted about it or looked at the stats.
I'm looking tonight though, while Malaya's gaming with some D2 and we're drinking sweet wine and listening to music and anticipating the New Year in a little over an hour. I'm fooling around, in other words, and with the year ending, why not? Yes, I may be a little bit drunk. But not too drunk to HTML!
If anyone were reading this now, rather than off doing New Year's stuff, I'd ask for requests on site stats. Since no one is, I'll just indulge my own curiosity, which is pretty much what this site is all about.
Here are the ten most viewed articles since October.
1. Castration, 5,527 views, 17.70%.
2. Penis Size, 3,668 views, 11.74%
3. Circumcision, 1,972 views, 6.31%
4. Men vs. Women views, 1,885, 6.04%
5. Ann Coulter, 1,332 views, 4.26%
6. Online Dating, 1,061 views, 3.40%
7. The Halloween Tree, 915 views, 2.93%
8. Serial Killers, 603 views, 1.93%
9. Articles Index, 590 views, 1.89%
10. Conspiracy Theories, 531 views, 1.70%
11. Anna Kournikova Topless518 views, 1.66%
Apparently, it's all about the penis?
I should also admit that I haven't made any updates to the article section in months and months, and that the latest stuff archived there (taken from daily updates and preserved in thematically-related articles) is from early 2003. I need an intern. Or a finished book, a publishing contract, and about two weeks to kill just doing BC archiving stuff.
Top ten most-viewed individual blog posts. This one was sort of a pain. The Urchin stat engine is a vast improvement over the old Webalyzer one, but it can't sort the results with add and subtract words at the same time. So, when I searched by putting "2005" in the page title, most of the top returns were the week-long archive pages (For example,
#2 overall, 366 loads.), most of which have 10 or 20 or more entries on them, thus skewing the results. Since I couldn't "-blogger" in the same search, I just had to list the top 50 such pages, then skip the weekly archives. Thus these results aren't #1-10, and the percentages are correspondingly low. If there were some way to apportion the loads per weekly archive page into individual articles, the numbers would be considerably higher, and also a bit more accurate.
1. Feb 28, 2005, 693 views, 4.71%
3. Things of the Day, June 27, 2005, 361 views, 2.45%
9. Volkswagon Auto Towers, October 23, 2005, 129 views, 0.88%
17. Lazy Spamming Scammers, October 20, 2005, 112 views, 0.76%
23. Pre-blogger, March 2, 2005, 100 views, 0.68%
29. Eragon's author, prodigy or hack? September 13, 2005, 65 views, 0.44%
30. Pre-blogger January 3, 2005, 63 views, 0.43%
31. August 24, 2005, A Streetcar Named Disaster, 61 views, 0.41%
32. Pre-blogger, February 7, 2005, 60 views, 0.41%
33. September 27, 2005, Eragon Mini-Review, 59 views, 0.40%
And finally, here are the top fifteen most viewed reviews. How many of these were actually read, or just clicked to since the words in the review happened to match the unknown person's search string is another question. Also, since all of these were posted in daily blogs before getting their own review page, it's likely that several hundred people read them that way, instead of via the review page. In other words, this list has little overlap with some imaginary, "most read reviews by Flux" list. Not that anyone really cares.
Like the other stats, these are from early October through today, since that's all the time the Urchin stats cover.
1. Ong Bak, 811 views, 4.59%
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 733 views, 4.15%
3. Blade Trinity, 677 views, 3.83%
4. The Historian, 655 views, 3.71%
5. Savage Pastimes, 632 views, 3.58%
6. A Wizard of Earthsea, 603 views, 3.41%
7. Depraved: The shocking true story of America's first serial killer, 596 views, 3.37%
8. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, 589 views, 3.33%
9. Reviews Index, 570 views, 3.23%
10. Stories Rabbits Tell, 403 views, 2.28%
11. Elektra, 332 views, 1.88%
12. The Transporter, 265 views, 1.50%
13. Chili's Restaurant, 260 views, 1.47%
14. Angels and Demons, 242 views, 1.37%
15. Claim Jumper Restaurant, 231 views, 1.31%
Comparing these to the other most popular pages, you can see a lot of overlap. The daily update with the initial review of
Stories Rabbits Tell, the #10 review, is in the top ten. The article on serial killers and the book review with "serial killer" in the title both made their top ten. I also noticed that two blog updates about
Eragon were in the top ten, and wondered where the review was... until I realized that's one of the things I'm behind on, and that I've never taken it from the blog entry and HTML'ed it into an actual review page.
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