Filmwasters
Which Board? => Housekeeping => Topic started by: Ed Wenn on September 21, 2007, 12:05:15 AM
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I just had a quick look at the stats for August 2007 and here are some of the headlines.
Totals
In August we had a total of 7700 visits from 2042 unique visitors and averaged 248.39 hits per day.
Most Popular Day
Tuesdays averaged out as the most popular day with a total of 2279 pages on Tuesdays across the month.
Length of Visits
24.9% of visits lasted longer than 15 minutes of which 12.1% lasted more than an hour.
Countries
People visited from 26 different country categories (including 'Other' and 'Unknown'). Here's the top ten:
01. United States (with over ten times more visits than from any other country)
02. European Country (as discussed previously, I have no idea what this means)
03. Great Britain
04. Japan
05. Australia
06. Canada
07. Unknown
08. France
09. Isreal
10. Germany
Top Ten key phrases used on search engines:
ricoh gr1
damion rice
betting
introduction
filmwasters
grasstrack
xxxxy
wai wai reload
seiko
gjon mili and picasso
Filmwasters use the following computer operating systems:
Windows XP - 66.2%
Mac OS X - 15.1%
Windows Vista - 8.2%
There was some Linux too - mainly Ubuntu - and one single hit from someone running AmigaOS!
The stats re search engines are actually pretty surprising with Yahoo! pipping the Google by quite some margin:
Yahoo! - 43%
Google - 25.3%
Windows Live - 22.3%
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The top ten phrases on search engines strikes me as strange...
Is it our search engine or all the others combined?
But still, no matter what, here's what I noticed:
Damion Rice ahead of xxxxy (I can see the screaming girls at Damion's door :) )
grasstrack ??? ??? ??? ahead of Picasso ??? ??? ???
And my cheers go the the guy running AmigaOS (I never met a girl geeky enough to still be running that thing... on the up side, no virus or spyware problems for him :) )
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My wife and I think that the Damion Rice search is for people misspelling the pop singer Damien Rice's name...but we could be wrong. Our Damion is a god after all.
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Its a bl*8dy good job you said that ed, of course people are searching for me, not the other one.
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I think it would be interesting to take a look at this now again, a few years later :)
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NCSA Mosaic... running through Trumpet Winsock... on Windows 3.11....... what memories of 16 bit computing greatness ;)
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Great idea Jonas. Here you go; stats from February 2011 (not the best month to use for stats since it's shorter than the others, but this isn't about securing advertising revenue ;D):
Totals
In February we had a total of 36447 visits from 12943 unique visitors. Those figures show an increase from 2007 of between 500%-600%. Wow!
Most Popular Day
Monday appears to be the most popular day, but it's actually a pretty even spread with between 27,000 and 32,000 hits per day across the week.
Length of Visits
22% of visits lasted longer than 15 minutes of which 11.5% lasted more than an hour.
Countries
People visited from well over 100 different country categories (including 'Other' and 'Unknown'). Note that 4 years on the USA and the UK are almost level pegging, but with the USA slightly ahead. This is a major change from 2007 where the USA counted for around 90% of the visits to the site. Figures listed are the number of page hits.
01 United States 265187
02 Great Britain 255763
03 Germany 42379
04 Canada 36195
05 Japan 17518
06 Spain 17196
07 Brazil 12732
08 European country 11402
09 Netherlands 10319
10 Australia 10099
11 Italy 9252
12 Philippines 8971
13 France 8367
14 South Korea 8342
15 Switzerland 8064
16 Sweden 7413
17 Poland 6985
18 Republic of Serbia 4321
19 China 4061
20 Russian Federation 3691
Search Phrases
Top Ten key phrases used on search engines:
filmwasters
ricoh gr1
polaroid 600 se
polaroid 600se
fuji natura classica
witch
polaroid 195
fuji natura
minolta af-c
film wasters
Computer Operating Systems
Filmwasters use the following computer operating systems (% followed by number of hits):
Windows 60.10%
Windows XP 28.30% 234472
Windows Vista 0% 574
Windows 0.20% 1908 (unknown version)
Windows NT 0.10% 1605
Windows ME 0% 535
Windows Vista 9% 74779 (LongHorn)
Windows Mobile 0% 236
Windows 98 0% 752
Windows 95 0.10% 881
Windows 2008 19.40% 160594
Windows 2003 0.40% 3878
Windows 2000 2% 17099
Windows 3.xx 0% 205
Macintosh 32.40%
Mac OS X 32.40% 268421
Mac OS 0% 4
Linux 3.70%
Zenwalk 0% 34
Ubuntu 1.80% 15503
Suse 0.10% 1329
Red Hat 0% 465
PCLinuxOS 0% 23
Mandriva 0% 2 (or Mandrake)
Gentoo 0% 1
Fedora 0% 196
Debian 0% 25
Centos 0% 33
Google Android 0.80% 7344
GNU Linux 0.70% 6396 (Unknown or unspecified distribution)
Others 3.60%
Unknown 3.10% 26399
Java 0.20% 2283
Java Mobile 0% 586
BlackBerry 0% 236
Symbian OS 0% 224
Unix system 0% 114 (unknown version)
SonyPlayStation 0% 40
Sun Solaris 0% 1
Web Browsers:
Firefox 45%
MS Internet Explorer 20.90%
Safari 13.70%
Google Chrome 12.50%
Unknown 1.80%
Opera 1.40%
Apple iTunes (media player) 1.30%
Mozilla 1.30%
Android browser (PDA/Phone browser) 0.80%
Netscape 0.20%
Search Engines
The stats re search engines show a massive turnaround for Google over Yahoo!
Google 90 %
Yahoo! 5.1 %
Microsoft Bing 2.9 %
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Geekery:
Good to see Firefox come out way in front!
Slightly disappointed to have Linux at only 3.7% (I'm being hypocritical here as my fun computer which i use to visit this site is OSX, but still- Windows? Download Ubuntu- you'll like it! (my work computers are all linux))
"Windows 3.xx 0% 205"- really?- that's cool! Maybe not terribly secure tho…
Disappointed there's no Amiga OS this time around...
(sorry- end of geekery)
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Ok, that increase in total visits is just staggering!!!
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I plan on visiting European country this summer and look forward to meeting fellow filmwasters there.
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"Windows 3.xx 0% 205"- really?- that's cool! Maybe not terribly secure tho…
Well... I don't know but since it won't run NT code, it's probably better than we think...
Besides, just consider the machines it's running on :)
Only 4 running classic Mac OS... disappointing.
And no BeOS machine...
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"Witch" is in the top 10 search phrases - but of course. Wait, what?? ;D
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hah! glad to see that I'm not alone in using any means necessary to check on the forum. I wonder what surfing from the wii shows up as, safari maybe?
anyway, really good increase of visitors! wow!
but "witch"? hm... witch polaroid 600 se should I buy? haha
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"Witch" is in the top 10 search phrases - but of course. Wait, what?? ;D
I guess that's why
Google search of Filmwasters forums (http://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Afilmwasters.com+witch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)
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I love stuff like this so it's a surprise that I don't run these stats checks more often, but there's loads here that interests me (both from the perspective of one of the people who runs the site, but also as a an IT geek who's interested in Internet and other computing trends. The Google surge is astonishing for one thing. For another, I have a sneaking suspicion that Francois accounts for around 95% of all page views from Canada which would put him squarely atop the "Individual Visits" leader board!!
:D :D
Erin: You're right, BTW. I too was astonished to see how much more traffic we are getting 4 years on.
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I also thought about this but didn't want to brag about my Super-Dooper High Speed internet connection (actually my cable modem is so old it still runs on coal!) ;) ;D
Now, I have to find a way to access the site using some oddball OS and browser so I can throw the whole stats off ;D
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Well, you could always code your own browser :-)
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maybe I should make up a filmwasters name badge! ;D
Now you're talking ;)
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maybe I should make up a filmwasters name badge! ;D
hah! I'd be proud to wear one! ;D
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Och a wont wunno rem badjes tae 8) 8)
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clearly ive gone off the boil somewhat.
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Philippines number 12!! ;D
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clearly ive gone off the boil somewhat.
yeah - the tricky second album did for you and your quirky emo-folk
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Philippines number 12!! ;D
That'll be you then, Carlos! Well done.
:D
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I have no idea why I love this kinda stuff, I just do!
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Probably has to do with a bit of geekery...
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This is fascinating, I too love this stuff, and often (sadly) wish I has a stats page for my own life :-p, like how many steps have I taken?
Congrats all on the huge increase in visitors, that rocks!
Maybe you should do a filmwasters pioneer card scheme and once you have recruited 500 people and visited the houses of the top 100 posters you get a metal filmwasters badge with your name on it.
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Thom...did you write 'Pioneer card' just to wind me up?
:D
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Haha, guilty as charged.
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Well, I can't say I didn't deserve it ;D