Site stats for December 2002

Compiled January 1, 2003.

All results compiled by Webalizer from access logs.

23,470 hits (+9% on last month), including 6255 pages (+23%), from 4895 unique visitors (+13%). That's an average of 31 hits per hour, or 201 pages per day. Busiest days were 2, 3, and 11; quietest without a network outage the 28th.

Top Ten Most Visited Pages
1 (1)654 (1020; -36%)Dilemma review
2 (2)468 (442; +6%)Site index
3 (3)400 (420; -5%)Hero review
4 (6)166 (132; +26%)How You Remind Me
5 (4)160 (186; -14%)Pink Just like a pill
6 (7)131 (100; +31%)Media index
7 (10)123 (73; +68%)The School Bully
8 (N)121Little By Little
9 (5)119 (170; -30%)The links
10 (8)103 (99; +4%)Pink Don't let me get me
Top Ten Visiting IP Lookups
1 (1)1391 (1137; +22%)AOL
2 (2)825 (801; +03%)Planet Online
3 (3)766 (723; +06%)NTL
4 (N)671BT
5 (6)581 (266; +118%)AT&T
6 (N)546Altavista
7 (5)345 (283; +22%)Roadrunner
8 (N)326Cable Internet
9 (N)290NTLi
10 (7)271 (215; +26%)Demon on the internet

My logs show NTL and NTLi as different sites. If they can be combined, seventwentyfour takes 11th place. I smell a .htaccess mod coming on.

Top Ten Referring Sites
1 (1)3269 (2160; +51%)Direct
2 (2)1126 (1004; +12%)Google.com
3 (3)455 (322; +41%)Google.co.uk
4 (4)320 (279; +15%)Yahoo
5 (5)157 (179; -12%)MSN
6 (8)101 (86; +17%)Google.ca
7 (6)88 (93; -5%)MSN UK
8 (N)87Altavista.com
9 (7)75 (90; -17%)Google.de
10 (9)74 (59; +25%)AOLsearch

For the second month, Google grows by 51%. For the second month, MSN loses referrers - the service has now lost 20% in two months.

Top Five Search Strings
1 (1)210 (314; -104)kelly rowlands
2 (N)39little by little oasis
3 (N)36avril lavigne
4 (N)27inme
5 (N)26good charlotte ringtones

Kelly makes just 10.6% of this month's searches. Very gratifying to see rising grunge band Inme at #4 - this may not be the last time they appear so high.
Grouping all the searches scoring at least four hits (three sufficed last month)...

Those Leading Searches In Full
306kelly rowlands / nelly / dilemma
39little by little oasis
36avril lavigne
31good charlotte ringtones
27inme
22why people don't vote
20pink mizunderstood
15hero chad kroeger
13nickleback
11chickfights
11foo fighter all my life
9electrical storm guitar chords
9susie dent countdown
8all my life foo fighter
8anna kumble
8tripping pictures
7ewan blair
7the zephyr song words
6days go by dirty vegas
6little by little-oasis
6susie dent
5selina scott donald trump
5this is how you remind me of what i really am
4avril avril lavigne
4beckham popbitch
4marilyn manson tainted love video
4vanessa carlton
4walk on u2
4why don't people vote

Internet Explorer slumps by 2.75% this month, and now counts for a pisspoor 89.7% of visits. Netscape and Mozilla inch up to 4.7% (up 0.08%), and 2.73% from Altavista's Scooter crawler (1.61%). Link Walker takes fourth, just ahead of the Googlebot. Opera registered a not-quite-so-minuscule 0.18%

26.77% of resolved hits went to .com addresses; 18.06% to .net, 10.32% to .uk addresses. Australia slips back, but remains in fourth at 1.54%; Canada gave 1.35%. .edu and .it logged between 1% and 2%, as does the newcomer France. 28.57% of visits just left an IP address, down from 29.99% last month.