Some site stats
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007AdamMaguire.com was 2 years old in late July (and not a single cake or card), so I thought I’d take the opportunity to put up a few of the site’s stats and figures, according to SiteMeter.
There have been over 22,000 visitors to the site in the last 2 years, around 1,700 of which came in August 2007 alone (that was the busiest month for the site ever too, it seems).
Average visits per day is 48 and the average visitor stays here for 1 minute 25 seconds and reads 1.6 pages. There have been just under 36,000 page views over the past two years.
43% of those visitors are Ireland-based. 16% are from the US and 15% are from the UK.
Around 95% of readers have set their PCs language to English; French is the next biggest language with a 2.1% share.
Windows XP is the most common browser at 68%; OSX is next with 14% and Vista is lagging behind Win 2000 with just 6%. Adding all the Microsoft-owned OS’ together brings a grand total of 83%.
The most popular browser amongst readers of the site is Internet Explorer with a 52% share (across IE5,6 and 7); that’s just 9% higher than the share enjoyed by Firefox 1 & 2. Safari makes up the rest with around 5%
As you can see from all of the above the site is quite a modest one, but a personally valuable one nonetheless. That value has become more pronounced as time has progressed with traffic picking up, especially from some very interesting google searches, and opportunities arising from an online presence increasing by the month.
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September 5th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Happy birthday Adam. Any idea of search terms? People often arrive at sites while looking for the oddest things…
September 5th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Safari beats Opera on your site? I’ve got ~1.9% Safari and ~2.2% Opera.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
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September 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Shane, thanks.
Most of the google hits I get are media related, which is great… but one of my best sources of hits comes from the post I made about Tom Waits’ “Day After Tomorrow”; I do get the odd funny one but not as many as I’d like… maybe I should start dropping more sexual references into my posts.
Yeah James, I was surprised to see that Opera didn’t register at all - not even a fraction of a percent. I’ve got to assume that that’s some kind of error on the stats site’s side; Netscape 5 is even there with 3%; unless one of those is for Opera but is clocked with the wrong name?
September 5th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Hello… thought this post was a good one to de-lurk on.
September 5th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
hey Annie, welcome to de-lurk status!
September 7th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
De-lurking of Annie aside, August spike may have something to do with a certain Janice Ridge?? OMFG: I’ve just realised she has the same initials as John Ryan. I’ve been had!!
September 7th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Absolutely no doubt about it 73man, a large bulk of my traffic for a week or two in August was because of John Ryan and The New York Dog.
In fact my last busiest month was the time I got a link on the BBC News website - there are ebbs and flows, as you’d expect.
September 28th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Belated happy blogday