Web Site Usage

I compared January of 2008 with Jan. 2007 for Pageviews, Visits, and Pages-per-Visit. You can see the data in the chart to the left. Like any graphic here, click on it to in large the picture.

The chart basically shows that there is no real difference between this year and last. According to Google Analytics the site is short 3,000 visits and 30,000 page views ~ not a big difference.. Green is last year, Blue is this year.

I would have liked to see the Pageviews and Pages/Visit numbers to have increased over last year.
I was hoping that by adding the Google search bar to each of the pages, and having it search the site and not the internet the Pages/Visits would increase. However; it may be that the site is so optimized that a new visitor to the site [from a search engine] arrives on the exact page their looking for ~ reducing the page views.

New visits to the site are 78.93% this year vs. 77.96% last year, but these number are really about the same every month.

AWSTATS [Unique Visitors] indicates 153,351 for 2008, and only 148,633 for last year [Jan.].
The last two years have been flat and so far this year looks no different. {I've blogged about reason why ~ older PC buses that receive fewer and fewer hits a year}