While taking a break from writing something very boring tonight, I suddenly remembered that I had a cool sortable engine with which to view my site stats. I used to view and post about them all the time, perhaps
a bit too often, but hadn't in forever. In fact, as best I can tell from searching back through the Blogger archives, my last post about site stats was a 2005 year in wrap up,
posted December 31, 2005. As far as I can remember, that was also the last time I thought to look at site stats, so this quick survey will be as much news to me as it is to you. Except that I sort of actually care (enough to check every 17 months, anyway), and you're just killing time at work.
Here are the top page loads since Feb 2007 (January 2007 and earlier are not showing in the stats.) Pages not listed are ones that exist only for search engines, to deny image hotlinking, are part of the function of the Blogger script, etc. (#3
Robots.txt, for instance.)
2.
/band-names/h.shtml 37,633 8.57%
4.
/index.html 18,633 4.24%
5.
/slang-dirty.shtml 18,023 4.10%
6.
/slang-sexacts.shtml 9,737 2.22%
9.
/articles/penis-size.shtml 4,819 1.10%
10.
/band-names/t.shtml 4,076 0.93%
11.
/articles/castration.shtml 3,773 0.86%
12.
/band-names/a.shtml 3,510 0.80%
13.
/slang.shtml 3,059 0.70%
14.
/blogger/2005_08_01_archive.html 3,013 0.69%
15.
/blogger/2006_02_01_archive.html 2,992 0.68%
You get the idea. Names of rock bands and dirty words = Google gold! The rest of the Band Names alphabet of pages dominate the overall top 50, though I have no idea why H is so absurdly busy. That one page has accounted for eight and a half percent of the total page loads on this site so far this year. WTF? There must be some weird search engine ranking going on there. I don't even have any currently-famous bands or names listed, as far as I can tell. Sammy Hagar, Geri Halliwell, Hanson, Ben Harper, PJ Harvey, Helmet, Jimmy Hendrix, Hole, Buddy Holly, Hoobastank, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Whitney Houston. Honestly, WTF? (There's no "Hilton, Paris" listed on that page, so that can't be it.)
The other odd thing are the two Blogger archives 14th and 15th place. Those pages don't even exist anymore, since I changed the archives from weekly to monthly. If you click them you just get the whole month, rather than the week the links are trying to point to. So where/how did the pages load at all? Is there a link pointing to them somewhere? And why the first week of August 2005 and the first week of February 2006?
Other stat counts aren't as useful since I haven't had time/inclination to update other sections. The Articles haven't been added to in forever, and probably won't ever be added to again, since I'm using the blogger keywords now to sort shit. I hope to have time this summer to go over more of the old posts and enter them into the blogger script backdated, just so they'll get keyworded. I've been adding keywords to more of the blogger posts (since that feature didn't exist for the first year I was using blogger) but I've got like 400 more old posts to add into that, yet, and then oh...
3.5 years of almost daily updates before then, back when I was actually blogging often enough to make this crap worth your bookmark. In other words... don't hold your breath in anticipation.
Top daily posts for 2007.
1. /blogger/2007_01_01_archive.html 135 7.42%
2. /blogger/2007_02_01_archive.html 129 7.09%
3. /2007/02/figure-skating.html 118 6.48%
4. /blogger/2007_03_01_archive.html 84 4.62%
5. /2007/02/valentines-gift-giving.html 45 2.47%
6. /2007/03/pc-vs-mac-commercials.html 42 2.31%
7. /2007/03/iraq-and-future.html 41 2.25%
8. /2007/02/band-names-mail.html 41 2.25%
9. /2007/02/carpe-diem.html 40 2.20%
10. /2007/03/im-not-sure-this-whole-driving-thing-is.html 39 2.14%
A pretty irrelevant list. I can't search just on daily post, but only daily posts and archive months have a "2007" in the URL, so the filter pops them up. I clearly haven't made any individual posts of any consequence to anyone. Over the same time period the H band names page got 38,000 hits, and the dirty slang page got nearly 19,000, so a top ten list that doesn't even get all the members into the 40s is beneath notice. Besides, all of these posts were seen by most people when they were on the main page, or on one of the monthly archive pages, and those views don't count on this list.
Top blogger pages, Feb-May 2007. A boring list. All archive pages for the top 70 or so. Scrolling down further, the listing gets all wonky, with weird combined URLs that are all broken. I certainly never posted them and haven't ever seen them to click on, so it's some kind of bug in the blogger script, I guess. These sort of bugs are why the error page is the #1 total page by page loads. Examples: (These are all malformed. They don't take you anywhere. Clicking them will not give you a warm, happy feeling.)
88.
/https:/www2.blogger.com//index.php 28 0.10%
19 0.07%
90.
/blogger/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925391.300%E2%80%9D 19 0.07%
91.
/blogger/%20http://www.google.com/search 19 0.07%
92.
/blogger/_a 18 0.06%
93.
/blogger/customer-reviews/0316011770/ref=cm_rev_sort/002-2274860-2892802 13 0.05%
Articles, page loads Feb-May 2007. The % listed is of all pages in the /articles section.
1. /articles/penis-size.shtml 4,819 13.88%
2. /articles/castration.shtml 3,773 10.87%
3. /articles/kiddy-porn.shtml 2,954 8.51%
4. /articles/food-mc-blog.shtml 1,976 5.69%
5. /articles/food-mc-diet.shtml 1,307 3.77%
6. /articles/kournikova.shtml 864 2.49%
7. /articles/playboy.shtml 759 2.19%
8. /articles/porn-women.shtml 746 2.15%
9. /articles/circumcision.shtml 660 1.90%
10. /articles/index.shtml 578 1.67%
Same as always on these. Sex, sex, and sex. Surprising number of hits to the Master Cleanse articles. People must be curious about it and searching for info. God help them. I still can't stand the idea of maple syrup or lemonade, and it's been like 3 years. Again, none of these contain anything written more recently than late 2002, and none have been updated since around 2004. So the results might skew very differently if I actually kept my own website up to date.
Reviews, page loads in 2007. The % is pages loaded in the /reviews section.
1. /reviews/m-ong-bak.shtml 2,089 8.68%
2. /reviews/m-bloodrayne.shtml 1,081 4.49%
3. /reviews/b-the-dirt.shtml 659 2.74%
4. /reviews/f-claim-jumper.shtml 642 2.67%
5. /reviews/f-hungry-hunter.shtml 616 2.56%
6. /reviews/index.shtml 613 2.55%
7. /reviews/b-marilyn-manson.shtml 394 1.64%
8. /reviews/m-garfield.shtml 363 1.51%
9. /reviews/m-infernal-affairs.shtml 346 1.44%
10. /reviews/f-marie-callendars.shtml 315 1.31%
This list is kind off wanky too, since I haven't written and added a review to the reviews section
since September 10, 2006. Also, all the reviews on the site were first posted in a daily update, so theoretically half (or more) of the search engine referrals go to those pages, rather than the one in the reviews section.
Tony Jaa remains popular; I think that review was the most viewed in 2005 as well. Why anyone's searching on Bloodrayne is beyond me; I don't even have a review of it on that page since I've never cared enough to force myself to sit through it. I just enjoyed blogging about how much everyone said it sucked. Also, what's with all the restaurant review hits? Who searches for Marie Callendars online anyway? Corn bread fetishizers?
Browsers:
1. Internet Explorer 915,647 58.20%
2. Firefox 381,067 24.22%
3. Mozilla Compatible Agent 93,760 5.96%
4. Safari 65,192 4.14%
5. Opera 21,220 1.35%
6. Mozilla 17,037 1.08%
7. msnbot 10,053 0.64%
8. Yahoo MMCrawler 9,616 0.61%
9. Netscape 7,303 0.46%
10. msnbot media 6,777 0.43%
Referrers:
1. (no referral) 70,553 54.95%
2. www.google.com/search 18,991 14.79%
3. images.google.com/imgres 8,819 6.87%
4. google.co.uk/imgres 3,023 2.35%
5. search.yahoo.com/search 2,214 1.72%
6. google.co.uk/search 1,949 1.52%
7. www.google.ca/search 1,707 1.33%
8. search.yahoo.com/search/images/view 1,616 1.26%
9. images.google.ca/imgres 1,271 0.99%
10. images.google.de/imgres 1,193 0.93%
Overall, there are a surprising (to me, at least) number of page loads. Almost 1.6m in the last 91 days, around 14k a day, which would work out to about 6.5m in a year. I've always said I wouldn't put ads on this site and I have no intention of doing so, but just out of curiosity, anyone know what kind of CPM you average from Adsense or Google ads or whatever?
Also, be sure you check back in 17 months for more long lists of URLs and numbers you didn't read this time and don't really care about anyway.
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