begistat.htm: searchlores.org, some early data

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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)
Month	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 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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