Monday, January 01, 2007

 

2006 Statistics for BENBEST.COM

I have become increasingly disinterested in the statistics on
my website, possibly because growth does not seem as great as
it once was. Nonetheless, there does seem to be growth and my
interest in my website statistics is still great enough to
be called an obsession.

There was growth in popularity of my website in 2006: 1,491,845
unique sessions in 2006 as opposed to 1,252,175 in 2005. Pageviews
were 2,197,133 in 2006 as opposed to 1,668,890 in 2005. According
to the traffic rankings at

ALEXA.COM
on December 31, 2006 the
3-month average ranking for

BENBEST.COM

was 205,547, which was more than twice as high as

Alcor Life Extension Foundation
(453,805) and more than
four times as high as the

Cryonics Institute
(969,367). That is far below

Wikipedia
(rank 13 on the same date), but still pretty
impressive. Even more amazing, my one-week average rank on
December 31, 2006 was 139,480. I think it would be cool to be in
the top 100,000, but I am expecting my ranking to drop in
January. The last week of the year is one of the slowest for
internet use (comparable to July and August) and I think that
I am still benefiting from the extreme popularity of my

The History of Christmas
page, which swamps all of my
other pages in popularity during December (and to a lesser
extent in November), but not during the rest of the year.

Below are some tables that summarize comparative
statistics for my website in the last couple of years.
I have just discontinued my use of Superstats in favor
of Urchin as a source of data because Superstats is so
expensive and does not really give me much additional
information other than comparison of past months and
years -- and I have reason to believe the data is suspect.
All of the data may be understated because I have heard
that some ISPs like AOL do caching of websites, so I would
not record many AOL hits (actually I never see AOL as a
source in my statistics).

Here are my comparisons of the PageViews I got in December
2004, 2005 and 2006 for some of my favorite pages (you have
to look WAY DOWN in this silly Blogger):

























December PageViews
Webpage200420052006


The History of Christmas
20,17944,44639,842


Mechanisms of Aging
1,8504,1056,392

Alcohol -- Health Benefit or Hazard?
1,1422,9432,829

Cryonics -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
6709731,311

Vitrification in Cryonics
5117721,110

Say's Law and Economic Growth
482568619

An Austrian Theory of Business Cycles
329471634

Schemers in the Web
243416767























Monthly Sessions
(thousands)
month20052006
January88125
February98125
March116148
April114136
May114126
June6998
July6692
August7592
September97114
October128145
November140148
December147143






























December PageViews by Search Phrase
phrase20052006
history of christmas6,1647,954
neurotransmitters1,024823
christmas history1,134747
causes of death222565
lipoic acid96300
ubiquinol11290
diogenes621275
dha42186
history christmas124180
cryonics92119
arachidonic acid87106
best homepage8295
murder rates7191
essential fatty acids12490
say's law11586
n-acetylcysteine20181
fixed income securities12550
ischemia11541


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