Website Traffic

I’ve taken some screen­shots of var­i­ous logs and sta­tis­tics regard­ing this web­site that I thought might be of some inter­est. Keep in mind that I switched hosts roughly a week ago in-between “real” work and toy­ing around with a new setup. I haven’t really focused any energy into really pro­mot­ing my web­sites — my phi­los­o­phy is that if they rank great, then fan­tas­tic. If they don’t, then I have other things to do. Either way, mon­i­tor­ing traf­fic is still is a fun thing to do. I get a kick out of see­ing if cer­tain terms can rank in Google.

With this web­site, I’ve come across some inter­est­ing and unusual results:

Search Engine Rank­ings for Lunarlog

The screen­shot above makes me LOL.

If I put a space between “Lunar” and “Log”, I rank #6 on an aver­age Google search. Then again, I haven’t really tried to push this site.

“I don’t want iGoogle as my home­page.” LOL. I hate to say it but if you are typ­ing that into Google, then you have some seri­ous prob­lems. Nowhere on my site do I even say that. So it’s com­pletely mind-boggling how my arti­cle on set­ting up iGoogle as a home­page even pulls this phrase off the Internet.

“Trans­fer­ring servers.” This is com­pletely unex­pected. In the course of human­ity, how many peo­ple have typed in “Trans­fer­ring servers” into a search engine? While it’s not “Tiger Woods” or “Miley Cyrus”, prob­a­bly a lot. The more generic a term or a phrase is, the harder it is to get up there.

“Set­ting up an eStore.” Another generic tech­ni­cal phrase. Of course, I wanted this one to rank higher but I didn’t think it would climb to this point. It’ll prob­a­bly go higher.

Over­all Web­site Traffic

I’ve masked out a few of my web­sites. I still haven’t listed other ones. But you can get a brief glimpse into some of my sites (the Knol arti­cle shouldn’t be included.)

HDR­Source took a slight tum­ble as I had some issues mov­ing it over to the new server.

LunarStu­dio has always been high.

The thing to note is Lunarlog’s Visit per­cent­age change. 317.50%. I’ll take it. It’s just going to con­tinue to climb. I’ve posted a cou­ple of links to my arti­cles, but mainly the new server move com­bined with setup as well as occa­sion­ally turn­ing out new arti­cles is what caused this month’s spike.

Ana­lyt­ics Dashboard

I know that’s not a whole heck of a lot of vis­its, but for two days and not hav­ing tried — again, I’ll take it. You don’t know if there’s only one per­son com­ing to your web­site, or sev­eral hun­dred. Of course, pop­u­lar web­sites can range in the hun­dreds of thousands.

New vis­i­tors are pretty good. I’m more shocked by the return­ing vis­i­tors as the num­ber over half. That means that they’re find­ing some­thing on this web­site use­ful which is good to know.

The aver­age vis­i­tor stays 3 min­utes. Which means that they’re actu­ally read­ing some­thing. Wow. Thank you? Now only if you peo­ple would start leav­ing comments!

Aver­age Time on Website

Another screen­shot of the aver­age time a viewer stays on this site. A few min­utes is about the aver­age length of an arti­cle so that sounds about right. What I find awe­some is that the aver­age viewer is now stay­ing almost 2/3rds longer than the pre­vi­ous month.

Inter­na­tional Visits

This map is show­ing the amount of vis­i­tors by coun­try based on their IP Address. It pretty much fol­lows the “devel­oped” world. Of course, eng­lish is my main lan­guage so I would expect traf­fic to be higher within the US. Plus I’m based in the United States.

Web­site Browser Usage

Traf­fic from across two days. Most peo­ple are using Fire­fox. The rest of the browsers needs to be con­sid­ered. The mobile apps such as Android-based phones — well they got cut-off here. I think there was one vis­i­tor from it. For now it’s not even worth putting efforts into design­ing this site to accom­mo­date the more obscure browsers.

Max­CDN Data Transfer

This graph shows the amount of data get­ting trans­ferred from Max­CDN cloud servers for Lunarlog since it was imple­mented on this site within the past week. Basi­cally, Max­CDN is host­ing some of my con­tent (mainly images and scripts) across the United States and in some for­eign coun­tries to help speed up my web­sites. I expect it to increase as it starts rank­ing higher.

Max­CDN City Data Transfers

This is a graph show­ing Max­CDN data trans­fers from their servers located in var­i­ous cities. Their data center/servers in New York are get­ting hit the hard­est. This NY server cen­ter also feeds the rest of New England.