Bandwidth vs Low Page Views

Yesterdays blog showed some site stats concerning low page views or page impressions, several hundred pages receiving less than 100 page views a month. So I wanted to list a few examples of what pages were performing so poorly.

I have a section within the web site that provides an alphabetic listing of manufacturers. Years ago it started out as just four very large web pages, but over the last few years have been divided up into 88 individual pages. The main landing page is Electronic Manufacturers, letter 'A', with links to all the other letters. So, for this section of pages, that landing page receives the most 'hits', 372 page views [last month]. The page views drop for all the other pages, as a visitor clicks on the desired letter to find the manufacturers their looking for. The next best performing page is 'D', at 49 page views. In fact only 15 of 88 pages saw more than 20 page views, the other 73 pages receive less than 20 page impressions. The section may not see much action, but people do find it useful as it indicates who may have acquired a company that no longer resides on the web.

Anyway there is another post from Nov 3 'Server Bandwidth' that also mentioned that same section of pages. The manufacturers section uses a page format with 'to many' graphics and the previous bandwidth post pointed that out. The server "Webalizer" report indicates the top 30 files that are taking up the highest bandwidth. Back in Nov. one of the files was the graphic on the top of the page. Now that the graphic was ported over to Google page creator [and other changes over the last few months] the report is now showing 5 of the smaller graphics in the top 30 files. It's time to port those pic files over to my page creator account so they drop off that server and not my web site server.