Wednesday, December 31, 2008

 

2008 Statistics for BENBEST.COM

Traffic on my website seems to be declining
slightly. In 2008 there were 1,505,117 unique
sessions as opposed to 1,548,099 unique sessions
in 2007, 1,491,845 in 2006, and 1,252,175 in 2005.
Pageviews were 2,127,350 in 2008 as opposed to
2,137,172 pageviews in 2007, 2,197,133
in 2006 and 1,668,890 in 2005. In seeming
contraction to these stats, according
to the traffic rankings at

ALEXA.COM
on December 31, 2008 the
3-month average world-wide ranking for

BENBEST.COM

was 170,071, which was more than three times as high as

Alcor Life Extension Foundation
(565,401) and more
than six times as high as the

Cryonics Institute
(1,116,857). My highest country ranking by Alexis.com
was in Sri Lanka, for some reason: 12,592 followed by the
Philippines: 42,097. My rankings in the United States,
Canada, China and the United Kingdom were 80,264, 101,348,
121,743 and 180,585 respectively. Overall, 45.8% of my
traffic came from the United States and 9.8% came from China

Below are some tables that summarize comparative
statistics for my website in the last few of years.
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, 2006, 2007 and 2008 for some of my favorite pages (you have
to look WAY DOWN in this silly Blogger):
































December PageViews
Webpage20042005200620072008


The History of Christmas
20,17944,44639,84227,47715,642


Mechanisms of Aging
1,8504,1056,3927,8733,603

Alcohol -- Health Benefit or Hazard?
1,1422,9432,8292,4082,002

Cryonics -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
6709731,3111,1051,520

Vitrification in Cryonics
5117721,1109591,133

Say's Law and Economic Growth
482568619651806

An Austrian Theory of Business Cycles
3294716346511,245

Schemers in the Web
243416767462506



The decline of many of my long established pages is offset
by the rise of other pages.
Causes of Death
at 13,346 in 2008 has been a very popular staple on
my website for a long time.

Brain Neurotransmitters
at 10,527,

Diffusion and Perfusion in Cryonics Protocol
at 4,092 and

Cancer Death
at 3,714 were very popular in 2008.



As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, the most popular page on my website year-round is generallyCauses of Death. The second most popular page on my website is usually
Death by Murder
(although Brain Neurotransmitters sometimes is second). But I have noticed that during the period between Christmas and early January, Death by Murder will be the most popular page. My speculation about why this happens is that people browsing the web during that period are mostly looking for entertainment, whereas during the rest of the year there are more people doing research.

The search phrases now distinguish between "history of christmas" (1,805) and
"the history of christmas" (1,709) which may have affected the "history of
christmas" statistic. A couple of other popular terms/phrases in 2008
were "glutamate" (1,162) and "amygdala function" (374).






















Monthly Sessions
(thousands)
month2005200620072008
January88125130124
February98125129135
March116148139140
April114136147148
May114126133137
June6998114119
July6692106100
August759210188
September97114117119
October128145143137
November140148149134
December147143139124


























December PageViews by Search Phrase
phrase2005200620072008
history of christmas6,1647,9542,4421,805
melatonin69801,532136
neurotransmitters1,0248234681,319
christmas history1,134747494548
causes of death222565805956
cryonics92119153131
obsessive love751510016
vitrification62704680
deprenyl68738746
lipoic acid96300115102
diogenes621275136131
dha42186247213
essential fatty acids1249077107
say's law1158665126
n-acetylcysteine20181293507


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