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some mid-september data for searchlores.org
"Citius, Altius, Fortius, Fravius"
September 2000


Time I give you some info about visits on this new site of mine... Lotta Transparence @ fravia's, eh :-)

Half an year went by since the opening of my searchlores.org new site, and, as you'll see below, I got more than 8.000.000 hits on my australian site alone (I actually don't know how many hits do my mirrors score).
Is this a lot? NO. Don't be fooled by such statements... it's crap: Hits don't mean nutting. You really want many "hits" to cheat the zombies? Do something extremely simple (note that I deeply dislike such disgusting practices): put on your "main" page a thousand different images with
WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" BORDER=0
noone will see them, and you'll have your bag full of (fake) hits (and you will webbug any visitor @ the same time, if you wish so). This webbuggers' old trick is heavily applied by the professional e-commerce-idiots (in order to "deliver" to their "clients" the "results" of their "professional" pro-active web-publishing approach... eeck, allow me to vomit a little :-(
On the other hand the number of visits to my site show a steady progress (a 25% increase every 2 months, I would infer), and I must admit that I'm quite happy with these data :-)
(but, if you are still interested in this crap, see my other comments below)


[Summary by Month] ~ [Some recent referrers]


Usage Statistics for searchlores.org

Summary Period: Last 12 Months
Generated 16-Sep-2000

Summary by Month
Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals (in red = extrapolated)
Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
1-16 Sep 2000 30518 21841 14227 3884 82408 23089544 118838 457994 703184 982048
Aug 2000 29943 21795 13895 3515 71309 21544458 108983 430762 675673 928262
Jul 2000 45971 23134 15493 3266 64157 22840893 101266 480284 717165 1425120
Jun 2000 41206 19874 17181 2582 48433 20536010 77485 515440 596236 1236186
May 2000 35744 23249 19176 2725 53648 20889894 84503 594459 720728 1108079
Apr 2000 32265 23771 16545 2474 44238 17833275 74232 496359 713133 967950
Mar 2000 36118 28088 17452 2858 50334 12813548 88609 541026 870746 1119665
Feb 2000 12636 9804 6175 941 16413 3659930 27295 179103 284325 366463
Jan 2000 129 113 57 15 95 8052 121 459 910 1036
Totals (to 31/08/00) 154760376 740751 3924883 5633692 8625833





Some recent Referrers
# Hits Referrer
1 11871 2.42% Yahoo!
2 11034 2.25% http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query
5 2917 0.59% http://www.google.com/search
9 723 0.15% http://search.metacrawler.com/crawler
13 299 0.06% [unknown origin]
14 280 0.06% http://search.dogpile.com/texis/search
15 277 0.06% http://search.netscape.com/google.tmpl
19 206 0.04% http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query_uk
20 197 0.04% http://beam.to/fravia
23 171 0.03% http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search
24 161 0.03% http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query
29 106 0.02% http://au.google.yahoo.com/bin/query_au
33 85 0.02% http://www.lycos.com/srch/
34 80 0.02% http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query_ca
40 65 0.01% http://uk.google.yahoo.com/bin/query_uk
48 58 0.01% http://hotbot.lycos.com/
54 42 0.01% Excite
56 41 0.01% http://www.2113.ch/fravia/
59 39 0.01% http://search.excite.com/search.gw

Comments below

MONTHS
As you can see "visits" and "sites" (which are the only parameter you should take care of when managing a knowledge site) seem to be improving, adding 25% more visitors every couple of months. Nowadays (Mid-September 2000) almost 4000 "real" people (as opposed to grabber bots) visit on average my site on a daily basis. On the other hand "Hits" (which don't mean much: every red_ball red bullet image someone downloads on a site is a "hit") keep giving around one million (take or leave a couple of hundred thousand) "hits" (duh) every month.
So we have 5.000.000.000 human beings, and 4.000 visit my site every day. Wonder what the remaining 99.9992% of my fellows are doing... :-)

If you are interested in the (sad) relation between visits and active contributions on a web site like mine, be aware of the fact that on average ONE out of 1000 visitors (i.e. 0.1%) or, if you prefer, one out of 10000 hits (i.e. 0.01%) sends some sort of feedback (at times valuable).
REFERRERS
Note that the (much too low) percentages of referrers are (silly enough) calculated on "hits", not on visits or sites. I suspect that this common mistake has been purpousedly implemented inside most software in order not to hurt the feelings of the many people and "site managers" that use such statistical logging facilities for their own sites and that - given the meager attendance they deserve - would like to believe (or, more probably, to sell others) the mith that "hits" are of some significance. Which, I repeat, is NOT true.
Anyway, I'm happy to constate the growing importance of search engines references and the diminishing visits pushed by "software reversing" links related to the old site of mine (Fravia's page of reverse engineering, 1995-1999).
As it seems, Yahoo and google vistors beat (at the moment) alltheweb (aka "fast"), Lycos and Altavista users (mass and quality at the same time? :-).
What did we learn today? (A question you should always pose yourself after sunset)
Want a site with many hits? It's easy
Want a site with many visitors? It's hard.
Want valuable contributions, for free, to a site that's free? It's next to impossible, but at rare times.
So what? We'll steady on our beloved path nevertheless... eheh :-)

fravia+, Mid-September 2000
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