I’ve been using the free traffic monitoring service StatCounter for some time now to get an idea of how much traffic I’m pulling in. Here’s a look at the past year’s traffic for Eclecticism:
Q1: Jan. 01 – Mar. 31 2005
| Total | Daily Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Page Loads: | 109,908 | 1,221 |
| Unique Visitors: | 82,105 | 912 |
| First Time Visitors: | 76,110 | 846 |
| Returning Visitors: | 5,995 | 67 |
Overall fairly steady. A very slight upward trend over the quarter and one spike from a mention by Yahoo! Japan in an article about fired webloggers.
Q2: Apr. 01 – Jun. 30 2005
| Total | Daily Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Page Loads: | 110,309 | 1,212 |
| Unique Visitors: | 86,021 | 945 |
| First Time Visitors: | 80,449 | 884 |
| Returning Visitors: | 5,572 | 61 |
A very slight downward trend for the first two months of the quarter as my home-run webserver started showing its age. A nice jump in the third month thanks to a kind offer by Michael of Rain City Story for a more capable server that was able to handle all the requests. One moderate spike towards the end of the quarter from searches for photos of the nude bikers at the Fremont Solstice Parade.
Q3: Jul. 01 – Sep. 30 2005
| Total | Daily Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Page Loads: | 234,652 | 2,551 |
| Unique Visitors: | 188,281 | 2,047 |
| First Time Visitors: | 179,664 | 1,953 |
| Returning Visitors: | 8,617 | 94 |
Again, fairly steady across most of the quarter. One small spike from a /. comment mention and one small bump from an Engadget comment mention — and then one huge spike thanks to an old post being Farked. Whee!
Q4: Oct. 01 – Dec. 31 2005
| Total | Daily Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Page Loads: | 172,416 | 1,874 |
| Unique Visitors: | 131,998 | 1,435 |
| First Time Visitors: | 123,268 | 1,340 |
| Returning Visitors: | 8,730 | 95 |
Nothing really major happening this quarter — pretty steady all the way across, and no major spikes worth noticing.
2005 Overview
| Total | Daily Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Page Loads: | 627,282 | 1,719 |
| Unique Visitors: | 488,405 | 1,338 |
| First Time Visitors: | 459,491 | 1,259 |
| Returning Visitors: | 28,914 | 79 |
The year overall shows a slight tend upward. Not a huge one, and having moved to a webserver that doesn’t choke is a large factor in that, but it’s still good to see that I’m pulling in a few more people as time goes by. That Fark spike is still incredibly noticeable, of course.
Not a bad year in the end, I’d say.
Thanks Michael. It’s always interesting to see other people’s stats. Hope you have a happy new year.
Yeah, that Fark post was good for me because it showed me the upper end of what my dual opteron 248 server can take. For the first 15 minutes of that, I was certain that I was under a DDOS attack, lol. My goal for this year is to add another gig of RAM and keep down time to less than 3 hours the entire year.
Here’s to a good 2006!
–Michael B.