November Forum Stats

[Alex]

Hi guys,

With this new hosting, we have access to all sorts of website statistics, and I am planning to make a report like this one at the end of every month. If you like stats like me, you'll probably like this.

A little explanation of the below, a 'hit' is a visit to the webpage, by any user, 'hits' give us the number of times the site was visited. A 'visits' are counted in individual users, 'visits' give us the number of people who visited the site. All percentages show the trends from the previous month, to last month (i.e, 16% less members registered in November than October etc).

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• New Members: 39 (down 16%)
• New Topics: 220 (down 8%)
• New Posts: 2290 (up 5%)
• PM's Sent: 213 (up 48%)

• Total Hits: 1'421'199 (up 11%)
• Total Visits: 19'957 (up 10%)
• Bandwidth Used: 5.86Gb (up 8%)
• Disk Space used: 354Mb (up 23%)

Average Hits per hour = 1'973 (up 15%)
Maximum Hits per hour = 7'370 (down 6%)

Average Hits per day = 47'373 (up 15%)
Maximum Hits per day = 52'721 (down 7%)

Average Visits per day = 665 (up 13%)
Maximum Visits per day = 773 (down 12%)

Average Bandwidth use per day = 195.3Mb (up 7%)
Maximum Bandwidth use per day = 288.7Mb (up 17%)

Here is an image showing some of the above information in a graph;


Top 5 Entry Pages (the pages visitors to the NZFF entered on);

1. "http://www.nzff.org/forum", with 14'353 visits
2. "http://www.nzff.org", with 4'296 visits
3. "http://www.nzff.org/forum/lofiversion", with 493 visits
4. "http://www.nzff.org/forum/style_images/1/iframe.html", with 205 visits
5. "http://www.nzff.org/forum/blog/alex", with 28 visits

Top 5 Exit Pages (the pages visitors viewed last before leaving NZFF);

1. "http://www.nzff.org/forum", with 12'669 visit-exits
2. "http://www.nzff.org/forum/style_images/1/iframe.html", with 1'728 visit-exits
3. "http://www.nzff.org/forum/lofiversion", with 477 visit-exits
4. "http://www.nzff.org", with 401 visit-exits
5. "http://www.nzff.org/forum/style_images/ip....dpr/iframe.html", with 123 visit-exits

Top 10 Referral Sites (the sites users came to NZFF from);

1. "(Direct Request)", with 124'197 hits
2. "http://vistaoz.org/smf/index.php", with 1'554 hits
3. "http://www.google.co.nz/search", with 963 hits
4. "http://www.google.com/search", with 849 hits
5. "http://digitalnexus.net.au/forum/viewtopic.php", with 606 hits
6. "http://www.nzff.co.nr/" with 317 hits
7. "http://64.233.179.104/" with 252 hits
8. "http://www.google.co.uk/search" with 243 hits
9. "http://72.14.253.104/search", with 214 hits
10. "http://www.google.com.au/search", with 210 hits

Top 10 Visitor Locations;

1. New Zealand, with 829'888 hits
2. "Network", with 223'840 hits
3. Australia, with 115'856 hits
4. "Unresolved/Unknown", with 77'405 hits
5. US Commercial, with 74'820 hits
6. Japan, with 15'042 hits
7. Netherlands, with 12'948 hits
8. France, with 11'610 hits
9. United Kingdom, with 7'611 hits
10. Germany, with 6'191 hits

Following the above countries (in order), are also, Hong Kong, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, "Old-Style Arpanet (Arpa)", Italy, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria. We had users from a total of 87 countries visit us.

Below is a Pie Graph showing how the countries fared;


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Thats it, hope you found it interesting.

Alex

[Jimmy]

Thats great, thanks for putting all that together for us to see, some impresive stuff there, very impresive indeed.

Thanks
James

[Matthew]

Thanks for making the effort to compile all the stats Alex, some of those hit counts are quite high

[ardypilot]

Wow, we sure get a lot of traffic from the VOZ Multiplayer forums at digitalnexus don't we! Is there a banner or link there that I don't know about?

Also whats with the random proxy addresses? Is perhaps two single members accessing the boards from random hidden IP addresses?

[Alex]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Dec 3 2007, 07:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Wow, we sure get a lot of traffic from the VOZ Multiplayer forums at digitalnexus don't we! Is there a banner or link there that I don't know about?

I just did a quick search there for 'NZFF', and 15 or so threads popped up, the earliest about a year ago, otherwise sort of equally interspersed there. But no, I couldn't see any other sort of link to us, maybe it's just the way people browse, they go through the VOZ forums, then visit us here etc...

QUOTE (Trolly @ Dec 3 2007, 07:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Also whats with the random proxy addresses? Is perhaps two single members accessing the boards from random hidden IP addresses?

Possibly, but I'd say it would be more likely the way Webalizer analyses the information it gets from visitors to the site. Because it doesn't process any user-submitted options or input on the website before they come here (and why would it, really?) it can throw out some unusual results (I weed them out and make them more normal before I put them in the post above).

And also you know you can find the same thing for October, August and July as well (no September as I was on holiday and then somehow the data got corrupted for that month... ).

Alex

[Charl]

Good job Alex.
I run a couple of websites and get these stats too.
I'm always frustrated that "Network" and "Unresolved" are at the top end of the list - wonder if there's a way to pin 'em down.

[ZK-MAT]

Nice work Alex, I love stats too

Those IP addresses are Google by the way.

[Blabzillaweasel]

Interesting! Nice to know stats isn't it

[HueyTeam]

Great stuff man Germany is in the top ten