Site stats for November 2002

Compiled December 2, 2002.

All results compiled by Webalizer from access logs.

21,356 hits (+44% on last month), including 5070 pages (+27%), from 4307 unique visitors (+46%). That's an average of 29 hits per hour, or 169 pages per day.

Top Ten Most Visited Pages
1 (N)1020Dilemma review
2 (2)442 (358; +23%)Site index
3 (1)420 (491; -14%)Hero review
4 (N)186Pink Just like a pill
5 (5)170 (145; +17%)The links
6 (4)132 (164; -20%)How You Remind Me
7 (6)100 (97; +3%)Media index
8 (10)99 (81; +22%)Pink Don't let me get me
9 (N)77A Thousand Miles
10 (7)73 (94; (-22%)The School Bully

Yes, about one hit in 20 was looking for that Most Popular Song.

Top Ten Visiting IP Lookups
1 (1)1137 (677; +68%)AOL
2 (2)801 (672; +19%)Planet Online
3 (3)723 (476; +52%)NTL
4 (N)294InsightBB
5 (4)283 (204; +39%)Roadrunner
6 (6)266 (173; +54%)AT&T
7 (5)215 (174; +24%)Demon on the internet
8 (9)196 (117; +68%)Intelos.net
9 (8)190 (131; +45%)Charter.net
10 (N)138Rogers

So it's the AOLsters that are driving the growth.

Top Ten Referring Sites
1 (1)2160 (1431; +51%)Direct
2 (2)1004 (901; +11%)Google.com
3 (3)322 (240; +34%)Google.co.uk
4 (5)279 (150; +86%)Yahoo
5 (4)179 (190; -6%)MSN
6 (6)93 (105; -11%)MSN UK
7 (7)90 (45; +100%)Google.de
8 (9)86 (37; +132%)Google.ca
9 (10)59 (32; +84%)AOLsearch
10 (N)37Altavista.co.uk

Very interesting to see MSN losing ground - not only by failing to grow at the same rate as other providers, but by actually submitting fewer visitors this month than last.

Top Five Search Strings
1 (N)314kelly rowlands
2 (1)44 (57; -13)why people don't vote
3 (N)31kelly and nelly
3 (N)31nelly and kelly rowlands
5 (N)29tony robinson online

That's not a misprint: Kelly was responsible for 17.59% of all searches submitted. Very surprising to see Sir Tony Robinson appear in that list - the TIME TEAM repeats this month have helped him. The next three distinct searches were "tripping pictures" (18); "avril lavigne" (17); "susie dent" (16).
Grouping all the searches scoring at least four hits (three sufficed last month)...

Those Leading Searches In Full
496kelly rowlands and/or nelly and/or dilem(m)a
48why people don't vote
29tony robinson
29susie dent countdown
26hero chad kroeger
21avril lavigne
18tripping pictures
17chickfight
15girl all the bad guys want
13pink mizzunderstood
12sugar babes round round lyrics
10jordy chandler
10virgin trains
7vanessa carlton
6nickelback
5hinesh rajani
4little by little
4popbitch beckham

Who are these people? Jordy Chandler is the lad who took Michael Jackson to court in 93 over sex abuse. Hinesh is a former correspondent who appeared on University Challenge in October - I suspect this is mostly egosurfing. [Update Feb 2003: I was confusing Hinesh with his so-called listie brother. Oops...]

We're winning the battle - 92.45% of the hits came from various flavours of Internet Explorer, down 1.13% from last month. 4.62% from Netscape and Mozilla (last month: 4.03%), and 0.66% from the Googlebot (0.85%). That esteemed visitor is now relegated to fourth place, behind Scooter's 1.61%. Opera registered a minuscule 0.12%

24.87% of resolved hits went to .com addresses; 17.02% to .net, 11.19% to .uk addresses. Australia breaks out, rising to 2.25%; Canada gave 1.99%. .edu and .it logged between 1% and 2%. 29.99% of visits just left an IP address