I know that some of you are interested in website stats, so here are some visitor numbers for the past month for my website, Canadian Social Research Links. My web hosting service, Total Choice Hosting, offers an extensive stats package – this is just a short excerpt from my September stats. Total Choice Hosting is the best deal in cyberspace, BTW, but that’s a whole other blog entry – it’s on my to-do list.
First, some context:
During September 2006:
21,289 unique visitors came to the site
28, 576 visits took place (1.34 visits/visitor),
81,076 page views (2.83 pages/visit)
227,790 hits ===> this is a ridiculous statistic that counts even graphics as “hits”, so that if a website has a ton of graphics, it sounds as if they have far more traffic than is really the case. Ignore “hit” statistics.
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My Top Ten Pages for September 2006!
Page Number of page views
Home Page (index.htm) 4996
Key Welfare Links in Canada (welfare.htm) 2847
Guide to Welfare in Ontario (onwelf.htm) 1929
Crass Casualty (my blog) 1469
Ontario Government Links (onbkmrk.htm) 1153
Minimum Wage Links (minwage.htm) 822
Non-Govt Organizations (ngobkmrk.htm) 802
Welfare Reform in Canada (welref.htm) 771
Social Statistics in Canada (stats.htm) 748
Sites de recherche sociale au Canada
- page d’accueil en français (sitesoc.htm) 656
My interesting social control experiment:
During September, my ClosetCam page was visited 74 times and my ClosetCam Archive page, 71.
[Both of these links are on the home page of my site. ]
Why do I call it social control?
Because there’s something in this that reminds me of the classic monkeys-and-bananas model of conditioning or social control.
The Stroop Effect page of my site was visited 189 times during September, which is 14 times more than the U.S. Government Links page. There’s something reassuring and yet mildy unsettling in that statistic…
(;-D