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A week ago, I put the HTML code for Google Analytics into my website. It's interesting (well, for me, anyway) looking at the stats. I don't get a huge amount of traffic (between 30 and 40 pageviews a day), though about 82% of the hits in the first week are 'New Visits' -- so at least it's not the same 30 or 40 people hitting the site every day...
Most of the hits come from the States, the (un)surprising stat being that the state that gives me the most hits is Kentucky. Since almost all of those come from the Northern Kentucky area, I suspect most of them are my students, former students, and other instructors/staff at NKU. Canada and the UK lead the other countries who have touched the site. Australia, Germany, Ireland, France, and (strangely to me) the Phillipines have 2 to 4 hits each. There are several one-hits from other countries.
The single largest entrance search is from google searches for variations on "S.L. Farrell" or "Stephen Leigh". Second are those people coming in directly. Wikipedia is 3rd, with Yahoo lagging at 4th, and the Penguin site (which hosts DAW books) and the "scifan" site slide in at 5th and 6th. Past that, there are several one-or-two hits sources.
Don't know what I'll do with this information, mind you, other than spending too much time looking it over. But I like seeing where people come from and what they touch (and what they don't) on the site...
Most of the hits come from the States, the (un)surprising stat being that the state that gives me the most hits is Kentucky. Since almost all of those come from the Northern Kentucky area, I suspect most of them are my students, former students, and other instructors/staff at NKU. Canada and the UK lead the other countries who have touched the site. Australia, Germany, Ireland, France, and (strangely to me) the Phillipines have 2 to 4 hits each. There are several one-hits from other countries.
The single largest entrance search is from google searches for variations on "S.L. Farrell" or "Stephen Leigh". Second are those people coming in directly. Wikipedia is 3rd, with Yahoo lagging at 4th, and the Penguin site (which hosts DAW books) and the "scifan" site slide in at 5th and 6th. Past that, there are several one-or-two hits sources.
Don't know what I'll do with this information, mind you, other than spending too much time looking it over. But I like seeing where people come from and what they touch (and what they don't) on the site...