Web site visits for January came in at about what I expected. I still can't get the site's visits to increase, it may not look like it but these number are really flat.
The site receives around 8,000 visits a day, so on months with a holiday or with only 28 days the site hits could reduce by over 20,000 just because it's a short month.
Server Bandwidth:
The lowest curve is server bandwidth and does not relate to the other numbers on the chart. The bandwidth is hovering around 100,000 [on the chart] but really equates to 10GB as the numbers were changed to fit the graph.
Unique Visits:
Are visits from a computer within a month, but any one computer is only counted one time. If any one computer returns for a second visit it's counted by the Visits curve.
Visits:
A site visit is registered each time a person visits the site within a month and each time the person returns to the site. Site Visits should always be equal to or greater than Unique Visits.
Page Views:
Are the number of pages a person views per month, regardless of how many times the visitor returns to the web site. Page Views should always be equal to or greater than Site Visits. Page views are really the only data point that is falling. Page Views is related to Bounce Rate, which is the percentage a person visits one page and then leaves the site.
Bounce Rate:
The Bounce Rate for interfacebus is 71% for January. Or 71% of the people that visited the site viewed only one page during the month. Some individual pages have Bounce Rates of 20% while some may have rates as high as 98%. One page I just looked at [30-Pin SIMM] had a 77% Bounce Rate. When I looked at the data the Bounce Rate would cycle from 100% to 50% or 0%. So I went ahead and added links to simular memory modules; 72-Pin SIMM. Not really sure why I cared those 30 pin SIMMs have been obsolete for a decade now. But I know why the links were missing, key-word contamination, confussing the search engine as to what page the 72-pin SIMM was really on.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Internet visits for the month of Jan
Friday, January 30, 2009
Google Knol Awards
Seems two of the Knols I wrote have won some awards. The two Knols both won a top viewed award, and a Top Pick Knol award. I assume somebody at Google made the notation for the "award", because they don't indicate any thing other than a small medal. Or this could just be like a smiley face kind of award. If it makes the knols show up sooner in a Knol search, that would be good.
I really would like to have the knols bring in more traffic to my web site. I think I posted the first Knol back in August 2008, now I have nine Knols. The two Knols that have the traffic banner have seen thousands of page views, but have only resulted in a few hundred visits to interfacebus.com.
Incoming traffic from Google Knol is sitting at 0.03% tracked over the last several months. But the search engine brings in the most when tracking hits due to Google.
Of course writing a web page and hoping for page views or traffic is more luck than another thing else. I added a few pages on FET derating over the last month, but they are only generating a few page views a day. In fact the page views are so low for that section they could just be from me checking the page.
Page hits and visits are up for January over December and may end up higher than either October and November.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Internet Visits from Africa
Here is a graphic showing web visits from the continent of Africa. The five sub-continent regions are shown indicating the amount of incoming traffic.
Northern Africa = 10,546 visits
Eastern Africa = 4,599 visits
Middle Africa = 269 visits
Western Africa = 3,241 visits
Southern Africa = 11,901 visits
In this map Southern Africa is made up of 3 countries; Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa. As you might guess South Africa produced all the visits with 11,379 hits. What's interesting is that when I zoom into South Africa to see the visits from the cities places like Cape Town don't place high. Johannesburg produced the largest visits followed by Pretoria and Auckland Park. I had to look up Auckland Park...
Eastern Africa is made up of 18 different countries, with Kenya producing the most visits; 1,460
Middle Africa only provided 269 visits from 8 different countries for an entire year. Cameroon had the most visits at 138.
Western Africa is divided into 16 different countries. Nigeria brought in the most traffic with 1,908 visits.
By far Egypt provided the most traffic from Northern Africa at 6,471.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Internet Visits from Asia
Normally I'll post graphics showing internet visits from countries or states within the US, this time it's the continent of Asia.
Western Asia visits = 54,370 hits
Southern Asia visits = 155,262 hits
Central Asia visits = 568 hits
Eastern Asia visits = 127,655 hits
South-Eastern Asia = 98,395 hits
Because of all the traffic from India, Southern Asia shows the largest amount of traffic.
While at the same time frame Central Asia has only a few incoming visits. Central Asia is made up of five break-away provinces from the USSR [in the 90's ?]. Guess that's why they were permitted to break-away, they had no internet or technology.
Israel provided the most traffic from Western Asia, just slightly above the traffic from Turkey.
China which was closely followed by South Korea sent in the most traffic from Eastern Asia.
The Philippines in South-Eastern Asia sent in the most traffic from that location.
Generating traffic from any of these countries is really out of my control. As I could always just want more traffic from the U.S. and spend time trying to generate more interest in this country. It's still interesting to see the location of incoming traffic. Plus, judging from the locations or time-zones, this is all traffic during the middle of the night ~ which is great.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Resistor Manufacturers
As part of interfacebus, I've had a page covering Manufacturers of Resistors on the web for about ten years now. The page covering Resistors is well established after 10 years on the internet
The Resistor vendors page grows in size or reduces as links are added or removed. The other day four 'redundant' manufacturers were removed from the listing as they all pointed to the company that acquired them. Normally I'll leave a reference to a company that was purchased so people can still find the new company, but after awhile the old link gets removed.
From the "What's New blog" I see a new page dealing with Current Sense Resistors was added in April 2008. Adding a related page to resistors means removing all references to Current Sense Resistors from the main Resistor listing, so that they only show up on the new page, other wise both pages would appear to cover the same topic. Of course removing any information relating to current sense resistors reduces the amount of text from on the main resistor page.
April 2008 also saw a number of new pages that related to Resistors but did not require information being drained off the main resistor page. The new pages provided more incoming links [external pages linking to] the Resistor Manufacturers page. Incoming links should help a page gain visits by providing additional ways to find a page topic. How ever at the same time similar topics on the same web site could end up dividing the traffic between all related topics.
The point is I see a reduction in visits to the Resistor Manufacturers page over the last few years. Page views in 2006 seemed flat, but appeared to start decreasing from 2007 on. Page visits look stable from July 2008 on but are down 60 percent.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Googlebot Crawl Stats
Here is the latest graph on Googlebot crawl stats, or how often the Googlebot spider checks interfacebus.com. For reference, the previous Googlebot crawl rate.
The previous 90 days ending in October showed an average of 452 pages spidered each day, while this chart shows 523 pages a day.
The amount of data down-loaded has increased to over 6,405k bytes [6Meg], but the time spent downloading the information has decreased by 100mS. So the spider is reading more data faster, which is good.
July crawl rate.
Sep 07 crawl rate.
Jan to July o7 crawl rate.
Friday, January 09, 2009
2008 Visits from Countries
Attached is the Google Analytics map for the world showing hits from each country. Google uses a color code, I added the text.
United States; 907,029 visits
United Kingdom; 126,399 visits
India; 121,684
Canada; 98,013
Germany; 64,810
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Highest hits during last year
Took a few data points from last years visits.
Language; 57,297 visits; German [de]
Browser; 1,352,562 visits; Internet Explorer [30.01%]
OS; 1,680,333 visits; Windows XP [84.16%]
Java Support; 2,052,254 visits [96.13%]
Traffic Sources, Referring Site; 19,938 visits [en.wikipedia.org]
Traffic Sources, Search Engine; 1,681,379 visits [google]
India had the highest non-US visits [U.S.A. had the most hits].
Total from all sites in 2008 include:
1,982,780 Visits
3,717,226 Pageviews
Remember non-Java supported Browsers are not counted.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
External Web Linking
Here is a listing of web page addresses with only one external page link from another web site. In most cases the external link is really coming from the web site's sitemap, which is located on another server.
