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
| Webpage | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
|---|
The History of Christmas |
20,179 | 44,446 | 39,842 |
Mechanisms of Aging |
1,850 | 4,105 | 6,392 |
Alcohol -- Health Benefit or Hazard? |
1,142 | 2,943 | 2,829 |
Cryonics -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) |
670 | 973 | 1,311 |
Vitrification in Cryonics |
511 | 772 | 1,110 |
Say's Law and Economic Growth |
482 | 568 | 619 |
An Austrian Theory of Business Cycles |
329 | 471 | 634 |
Schemers in the Web |
243 | 416 | 767 |
|
Monthly Sessions
(thousands)
| month | 2005 | 2006 |
|---|
| January | 88 | 125 |
| February | 98 | 125 |
| March | 116 | 148 |
| April | 114 | 136 |
| May | 114 | 126 |
| June | 69 | 98 |
| July | 66 | 92 |
| August | 75 | 92 |
| September | 97 | 114 |
| October | 128 | 145 |
| November | 140 | 148 |
| December | 147 | 143 |
|
December PageViews by Search Phrase
| phrase | 2005 | 2006 |
|---|
| history of christmas | 6,164 | 7,954 |
| neurotransmitters | 1,024 | 823 |
| christmas history | 1,134 | 747 |
| causes of death | 222 | 565 |
| lipoic acid | 96 | 300 |
| ubiquinol | 11 | 290 |
| diogenes | 621 | 275 |
| dha | 42 | 186 |
| history christmas | 124 | 180 |
| cryonics | 92 | 119 |
| arachidonic acid | 87 | 106 |
| best homepage | 82 | 95 |
| murder rates | 71 | 91 |
| essential fatty acids | 124 | 90 |
| say's law | 115 | 86 |
| n-acetylcysteine | 201 | 81 |
| fixed income securities | 125 | 50 |
| ischemia | 115 | 41 |
|
# posted by Ben Best @ 1:40 AM
