I wanted to show the relative increase in site visitors this year. So I picked year to date numbers compared to the same time interval last year. I also wanted to show a few random countries, so I used NATO Member Countries.
Currently March numbers are the highest ever of any other month, and there are still two days left. The first day of next month I'll show the standard bar graph of visitor status, or what ever I put up. But I wanted to detail something different before hand, another view of some of the data.
The over-all site is up about 20% over last year; however some of the countries listed below may show a higher or lower increase. None of the countries listed had a decrease in visitors to the web site [Engineering Data].
Now none of the [22] new pages generated this year are getting any web visits [yet]. So the increase in site visitors must be due to new pages added last year, or additions made to existing pages already residing on the web site. Maybe a few posts back I detailed how poorly the new page additions were doing.
NATO member states:Albania; 27% increase
Belgium; 16% increase
Bulgaria; 35% increase
Canada; 22% increase
Croatia; 57% increase
Czech Rep; 32% increase
Denmark; 11% increase
Estonia; 52% increase
France; 24% increase
Germany; 24% increase
Greece; 25% increase
Hungary; 15% increase
Iceland; 6% increase
Italy; 19% increase
Latvia; 47% increase
Lithuania; 45% increase
Luxembourg; 3% increase
Netherlands; 7% increase
Norway; 27% increase
Poland; 17% increase
Portugal; 31% increase
Romania; 27% increase
Slovakia; 55% increase
Slovenia; 42% increase
Spain; 13% increase
Turkey; 17% increase
United Kingdom; 17% increase
United States; 11% increase
Now to be fair there have been some countries that show a decrease in site visits; for example, the 1 hit from the Vatican City did not return again this year. ~ this may appear to be a long posting, but it's just the list. I guess I forgot NATO started letting the eastern-block countries in for membership.
Just for the record, I just posted a comment to a blog post regarding Alexa data. Alexa indicates 11.1% of my site traffic is from Iran, while Google Analytics [site counter] indicates 0.43%. The data above is from Google Analytics, not some third party site.
Graphic; Flight of a NATO AWACS and three F16 fighters. Open Source. [public domain].
Graphic; Map of NATO countries and EU members. Open Source. [public domain].
2 comments:
Just minutes after publishing the post; I should have indicated that there are 28 independent member countries in NATO, while there are 217 different countries that used the web site this year. With about half a dozen other countries that don't have an internet, what's up with that?
So same time frame:
North America = 43.11% visits
Northern Europe = 9.32% visits
Southern Asia = 8.82% visits
Western Europe = 8.16%
Eastern Europe = 5.49% and so on..
Also there are other posts in this blog that relate to Alexa data, just use the search bar to pull them up. I only bring Alexa up because there are a lot of people or web-masters that use Alexa data ~ many don't realize that the Alexa data is skewed toward people that use the Alexa Tool bar. They [Alexa] interpolate data based on the small amount of people that use the tool bar [for example], to generate a 'traffic rank' of a web site. Some web masters use the traffic rank to set a value to their web site, wrong ~ I can make my traffic rank look better at any time......
Maybe next time I'll use the now defunct Warsaw pact, or southern Asia, what ever, just a shorter list.
4/2/10 Opps I couldn't do a Warsaw Pact even if I wanted to, most of those countries don't exist any longer or have been broken up;
Russia = 41% increase
Czech Republic = 32% increase
Poland = 16% increase
Hungary = 14% increase
Romania = 27% increase
Bulgaria = 35% increase
Albania = 24% increase
Germany = 23% increase [East Germany and West Germany]
That is, they exist as something other than what they may have been in the 1980's. But they all showed an increase any way.
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