Amazing how many people log onto websites

[Bob]

Don't know how many KB gets, but I had a look at the figures for the biking site I run... and got quite a surprise!

Click here for the figures and comparisons with the major magazines

Now if only I could get some advertising to help pay for the site...

[Karma]

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works Bob, but how many of those requests are from unique IDs?

If you get 10,000 requests a month, I'd say conservatively that means you've probably got around 3-4k readers.

[NordieBoy]

The POTN site I go to (Photography on the Net) at the current time has...

"Currently Active Users: 1043 (305 members and 738 guests)"
That's people online at the current time.

I see those numbers and am dumbfounded.
They've got a site that's actually paying it's own way.
Comfortably.

[NordieBoy]

Just had a look at my site stats...

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(Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending 19-Feb-2006 23:59).
Successful requests: 66,423 (11,422)
Average successful requests per day: 2,120 (1,631)
Successful requests for pages: 5,790 (985)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 184 (140)
Failed requests: 1,994 (478)
Redirected requests: 69 (16)
Distinct files requested: 12,522 (4,249)
Distinct hosts served: 2,296 (378)
Data transferred: 535.90 megabytes (80.98 megabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 17.11 megabytes (11.57 megabytes)
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This is the one I like...

Listing domains, sorted by the amount of traffic.
reqs: %bytes: domain
-----: ------: ------
5977: 30.26%: .com (Commercial)
19743: 16.70%: .nz (New Zealand)
16929: 12.74%: .nl (Netherlands)
5291: 10.49%: .net (Networks)
6045: 9.33%: [unresolved numerical addresses]
433: 2.78%: .pl (Poland)
1368: 2.57%: .fr (France)
2905: 2.09%: .br (Brazil)
1532: 1.98%: .it (Italy)
1605: 1.78%: .be (Belgium)
145: 1.65%: .ru (Russia)
179: 1.02%: .mx (Mexico)
372: 0.87%: .cz (Czech Republic)
345: 0.83%: .uk (United Kingdom)
396: 0.70%: .au (Australia)
105: 0.45%: .de (Germany)
502: 0.40%: .fi (Finland)
895: 0.37%: .es (Spain)
199: 0.28%: .pt (Portugal)
24: 0.26%: .ua (Ukraine)
43: 0.23%: .edu (USA Higher Education)
222: 0.21%: .jp (Japan)
16: 0.20%: .nu (Niue)
7: 0.17%: .ee (Estonia)
168: 0.15%: .ma (Morocco)
41: 0.14%: .ca (Canada)
9: 0.11%: .md (Moldova)
148: 0.09%: .gr (Greece)
332: 0.09%: .si (Slovenia)
6: 0.08%: .uz (Uzbekistan)
6: 0.08%: .kg (Kyrgyzstan)
7: 0.07%: .gt (Guatemala)
19: 0.07%: .se (Sweden)
27: 0.06%: .in (India)
13: 0.06%: .tw (Taiwan)
34: 0.06%: .do (Dominican Republic)
5: 0.06%: .ch (Switzerland)
66: 0.05%: .hu (Hungary)
50: 0.05%: .ar (Argentina)
15: 0.05%: .za (South Africa)
10: 0.04%: .org (Non Profit Making Organisations)
19: 0.04%: .at (Austria)
3: 0.03%: .us (United States)
9: 0.03%: .dk (Denmark)
5: 0.02%: .arpa (Arpanet)
10: 0.02%: .cl (Chile)
4: 0.02%: .my (Malaysia)
1: 0.02%: .mil (USA Military)
1: 0.02%: .gov (USA Government)
1: 0.02%: .ie (Ireland)
75: 0.02%: .no (Norway)
1: 0.01%: .kh (Cambodia)
2: 0.01%: .il (Israel)
3: 0.01%: .sg (Singapore)
1: 0.01%: .lv (Latvia)
23: 0.01%: .co (Colombia)
1: 0.01%: .sa (Saudi Arabia)
7: : .am (Armenia)
2: : .kz (Kazakhstan)
11: : .ky (Cayman Islands)
2: : .sk (Slovakia)
1: : .yu (Yugoslavia)
1: : .ro (Romania)
4: : .hk (Hong Kong)
1: : [unknown domain]
1: : .ph (Philippines)
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This is running off my ADSL connection.
128Kb of unbridled pure speeeed...

I keep thinking I'll get rid of most of the stuff on my site/s and then I'll look at the stats and think "If just a couple of those hits found something they were looking for that they couldn't get anywhere else then I'll keep it going..."

[Bob]

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works Bob, but how many of those requests are from unique IDs?

If you get 10,000 requests a month, I'd say conservatively that means you've probably got around 3-4k readers.

Distinct hosts served: 315 - so 315 a day average. Which is why I grossed it up to 10 thou. Allowing for repeat traffic, I'd say probably fair to make the total somewhere between mine and yours. So lets say 6-8 thousand?

Still not bad for one bloke working out of his spare room in his spare time!

[Bob]

The POTN site I go to (Photography on the Net) at the current time has...

"Currently Active Users: 1043 (305 members and 738 guests)"
That's people online at the current time.

I see those numbers and am dumbfounded.
They've got a site that's actually paying it's own way.
Comfortably.

POTN is a major site on the net. And as a community, it is superb. People seem to help each other out, pass on technical information and comparisons. To me, just what a site should be doing.

And oh what I'd give to have the photographic talent of some of those people!

[Bob]

Nordieboy,

What is your site, btw? Nice stats you've got there!

But this all kinda proves a point I will now get round to making. Look at the audience figures we've been showing here. My little site is drawing in enough interest to "outsell" a big bunch of the biking magazines out there.

And the figures being shown on POTN? I'd guess they're stuffing all but the seriously big photography titles in the newsagents?

But advertisers don't put their money on the web. Instead, they'll continue to pump money into magazines... often to have their advert stuck in the back pages where it will get ignored.

Very slow to react, Mr Advertiser. Sadly.

[NordieBoy]

http://www.mobilecomputing.co.nz is my business one but it's just a bit of fun/blog that I started on 1/1/2000. The part of the site that gets the hits are my archives under links and Fran's tools.

http://motorsport.nelson.geek.nz
and
http://fran.nelson.geek.nz
and
http://music.nelson.geek.nz
are some of the fun photo type sites.
You can see my progression through different cameras through the years
I've just started getting more serious (well maybe just less un-serious)about the photos since I got a 300D in Jan and it's made some of the concepts/practices obvious whereas my Fuji worked so well on auto that I didn't learn anything.

Oh well.
Off to take the Nifty50 (lens not bike) out to the Karting.

[Lazy7]

we host websites and on our server we have 3 websites sitting in the (higher end) of the top 100 visited sites in new zealand.

they average around 1800-2000 unique visitors a day and around 500,000 pageviews a month...

so having 300 unique vistors a day is nothing to be ashamed about. of the 300 websites we host, that would put you in the top 25.