2006 Year End
This is actaually my third try at this post. The other times Blogger didn't save it despite my request to save it in draft form. If you see the posting it means that I finally got the post completed. I am giving it the old "Three Strikes" treatment. If you see this the third strike was a hit not an out.
2006 was an interesting year for my web sites.
http://www.ogdenpoint.ca/ had an increase in the number of visitors and a decrease in the number of pages that were viewed from 2005. The 2005 visitor count was 842 visitors viewing 3237 pages. The 2006 count was 1197 visitors viewing 2686 pages. That amounts to 3 visits per day and 7.4page views per day.
http://www.ronmclean.bc.ca/ saw the visitor count from 2005 drop in 2006. The 2005 count was 1463 people viewing 9949 pages. The 2006 numbers were 1219 visitors and 2771 pages. The numbers are quite close to those for http://www.ogdenpoint.ca/
http://www.photoserver.ogdenpoint.ca/ is the Index Page for my PhotoServer which runs Cards From Ogden Point. The index page gives access to my photo albums and webcams as well as links into the various other sites the computer runs. The PotoServer Index and subpages saw a moderate increase in traffic from 450 visits and 2177 pages in 2005 to 1441 visits and 5533 pages in 2006. That gives it an average of 3.9 visitors per day and 15.43 pages per day. The average visitor viewed 3.9 pages. Access to my WebCams and photo albums would be included in these totals. When one considers that the "Recent Photo Album" contains 200 pictures that are generally updated more than once a month, the numbers reflect a rather low visitor count. One visitor arriving through the index page and viewing the full slide show would add over 200 hits to the counter. Obviously not many people viewed the whole slide show, let alone the others on the site.
Those three sites probably get more of my time in keeping them up to date than they get visitor time during the year.
http://www.cardsfrom.ogdenpoint.ca/ (Cards From Ogden Point) is quite another story. It gets much more traffic and saw a 50% increase in both visitors and page views from 2005 to 2006. The 2005 count was 9,028 visitors viewing 100,278 pages. The 2006 count was 14,111 people viewing 157,693 pages. That represents 1.6 visitors per hour, and 18 pages per hour for all 365 days of the year - 24/7. That is a lot of traffic when you consider it is being "Served" from a computer sitting in my living room.
The most interesting part of the Cards From Ogden Point traffic for me was that the busiest times all year were the last three days in September, and the first three days in October. On September 30, 6211 pages were viewed -- making that day the busiest in the site history. That 6 day period was busier than Valentines Day, Easter, Christmas or New Years Day. There were no contests running, and there were no holidays until Canadian Thanksgiving nearly two weeks later. December 2006 was much slower than December 2005. (Not to mention being slower than January, February, April, September, and October 2006.) There is certainly no predicting traffic patterns and prospective visitor dates. Christmas 2006 ran a distant third behind Valentines Day and Easter. -- Mother's Day, Father's Day, and Thanksgiving were quite uneventful.
The year end statistics also give some demographic information about computer use. Almost exactly 5 years after Windows XP arrived on the scene, 77.75% of my visitors were using XP. 89.45% were using some form of Windows including 14 visitors still using Windows 3.1. The biggest disaster in Windows history as far (as I'm concerned) Windows ME was represented by only 20 visitors while Windows 98 was used by 988 visitors or 7.2%, and Windows 2000 was used by 522 visitors or 3.8%.
The Mac operating system was represented by 311 visitors (2.26%). Linux showed up 43 times for less than one percent of the visitors.
80.65% were using Internet Explorer, 13.95% were using a Mozilla based Browser -- mostly Firefox and Safari, and 4.1% were using Netscape.
From my reading of various on line services, those results are quite typical.
It will be interesting to see if Windows Vista has 77.75% of the operating systems 5 years from now. When XP arrived 5 years ago, most Internet access was by dial up and computers were slower, less powerful, and more expensive than today. What will the next 5 years bring?
2006 was an interesting year for my web sites.
http://www.ogdenpoint.ca/ had an increase in the number of visitors and a decrease in the number of pages that were viewed from 2005. The 2005 visitor count was 842 visitors viewing 3237 pages. The 2006 count was 1197 visitors viewing 2686 pages. That amounts to 3 visits per day and 7.4page views per day.
http://www.ronmclean.bc.ca/ saw the visitor count from 2005 drop in 2006. The 2005 count was 1463 people viewing 9949 pages. The 2006 numbers were 1219 visitors and 2771 pages. The numbers are quite close to those for http://www.ogdenpoint.ca/
http://www.photoserver.ogdenpoint.ca/ is the Index Page for my PhotoServer which runs Cards From Ogden Point. The index page gives access to my photo albums and webcams as well as links into the various other sites the computer runs. The PotoServer Index and subpages saw a moderate increase in traffic from 450 visits and 2177 pages in 2005 to 1441 visits and 5533 pages in 2006. That gives it an average of 3.9 visitors per day and 15.43 pages per day. The average visitor viewed 3.9 pages. Access to my WebCams and photo albums would be included in these totals. When one considers that the "Recent Photo Album" contains 200 pictures that are generally updated more than once a month, the numbers reflect a rather low visitor count. One visitor arriving through the index page and viewing the full slide show would add over 200 hits to the counter. Obviously not many people viewed the whole slide show, let alone the others on the site.
Those three sites probably get more of my time in keeping them up to date than they get visitor time during the year.
http://www.cardsfrom.ogdenpoint.ca/ (Cards From Ogden Point) is quite another story. It gets much more traffic and saw a 50% increase in both visitors and page views from 2005 to 2006. The 2005 count was 9,028 visitors viewing 100,278 pages. The 2006 count was 14,111 people viewing 157,693 pages. That represents 1.6 visitors per hour, and 18 pages per hour for all 365 days of the year - 24/7. That is a lot of traffic when you consider it is being "Served" from a computer sitting in my living room.
The most interesting part of the Cards From Ogden Point traffic for me was that the busiest times all year were the last three days in September, and the first three days in October. On September 30, 6211 pages were viewed -- making that day the busiest in the site history. That 6 day period was busier than Valentines Day, Easter, Christmas or New Years Day. There were no contests running, and there were no holidays until Canadian Thanksgiving nearly two weeks later. December 2006 was much slower than December 2005. (Not to mention being slower than January, February, April, September, and October 2006.) There is certainly no predicting traffic patterns and prospective visitor dates. Christmas 2006 ran a distant third behind Valentines Day and Easter. -- Mother's Day, Father's Day, and Thanksgiving were quite uneventful.
The year end statistics also give some demographic information about computer use. Almost exactly 5 years after Windows XP arrived on the scene, 77.75% of my visitors were using XP. 89.45% were using some form of Windows including 14 visitors still using Windows 3.1. The biggest disaster in Windows history as far (as I'm concerned) Windows ME was represented by only 20 visitors while Windows 98 was used by 988 visitors or 7.2%, and Windows 2000 was used by 522 visitors or 3.8%.
The Mac operating system was represented by 311 visitors (2.26%). Linux showed up 43 times for less than one percent of the visitors.
80.65% were using Internet Explorer, 13.95% were using a Mozilla based Browser -- mostly Firefox and Safari, and 4.1% were using Netscape.
From my reading of various on line services, those results are quite typical.
It will be interesting to see if Windows Vista has 77.75% of the operating systems 5 years from now. When XP arrived 5 years ago, most Internet access was by dial up and computers were slower, less powerful, and more expensive than today. What will the next 5 years bring?
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