September 2008 Stats
Completely forgot to update you on the stats.
September served just under 19 million page views (18,961,758) to an average of 90,829 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 2.7 million visitors (2,724,893).
These numbers have gone down a bit since Aug where total page views were 2,016,7204 and users were 2,869,758. Most of this is due to me sending users to my flickr instead - wanted to offload traffic to flickr for a more stable server than trying to ramp up page views.
Another reason why views are down a bit is because I'm not writing as much articles as before. Rather than churn out quantity, I want to take more time to deliver original photo articles - still stand by my earlier Quality over Quantity statement ^^
Learnings
1. I notice some folks reporting how many "hits" they get on their site and just thought I would clarify what a "hit" means. A hit is a single request to the server. So if a top page has 60 images and 1 CSS file, a single visit to that top page would get 62 hits including the actual HTML for that page - more definitions of "hit" here.
Folks who are looking for advertisers may want to consider publishing actual page views and unique users as advertisers are not interested in hits. My hits for September were 152 million (152,338,492) but that does not mean anything and I would only be embarrassing myself if I published that number ^^;
2. The "this time last year" feature has done really well since they started to appear in the feeds - great for new users (judging from the page views) but probably annoying for veteran readers - will look for a solution around this although I do notice many veterans going back to enjoy the new conversation.
3. The Alexa rank has taken a nosedive since Firefox 3 was released - looks like many IE6 users made the switch. Alexa is still mainly powered by software in old versions that came installed in Windows in IE6. Nearly 60% of dannychoo.com users are now on Firefox - stats here.
4.Got dannychoo.com banned by the adsense folks again ^^; Luckily I have comrades there and my account is now activated. Keywords such as "s-e-x", "breas-ts" etc are automatically detected by google and if there are spikes in traffic then the Google Adsense police come to see if there is anything fishy going on - ie adsense blocks on a page with ecchi content..
These particular words also affect the number of pages indexed by Google and affects Page Rank. This is one of the reasons why some of your posts go missing. Please use the standard words like "eyes" or "dolphin" or "health care time" etc if you need to describe these objects/actions ^^;
I don't want these stats listed under articles anymore but need a place to archive them for advertisers so they will live under my "stats" tagged news items - but not all folks read news items so will copy/paste some of this blurb into the appropriate "A Week in Tokyo" article.
Notable referrers of the month were...
And thanks to my sponsors
And thanks to everybody else who drove traffic to the site. Will be implementing new sharing features to make it up to you.
Finally, thanks to you the reader and the great folks who participate in the community.
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part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
http://puppy52art.com/
Thanks for the tips danny! :) Is the banning the main reason why you use "eyes" and "dolphins" to refer to those parts?
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
It is ^^;
But "eyes" gives me more freedom in how I express a figure.
"nice juicy eyes" can be said easily I guess as opposed to "nice juicy..." ^^;
part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
http://puppy52art.com/
forgot to ask, does the adsense police actually contact you about the information? Or do you find out via the stats? Nice juicy eyes... got milk? lol
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
They contact you directly.
part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
http://puppy52art.com/
Ahhh thank you for taking time to answer my question :3
Student
Didn't know about the "Google Adsense police", it now makes total sense why people on this site use words like "eyes" and "dolphins":P I had been thinking that this unusual word use was Danny's own preference.
Lover of Akiba!
http://vincentosshrine.com/
I didn't know it too, but now I find the meaning of the life lol (I wanna see more eyes, yump!)
Troubleshooter, Universal Exports
http://funkyblueame.tumblr.com/
Yes, Google take this VERY seriously. After spending about 5 months helping to build a non-profits Google Adwords account, I understand this very well.
Dirty Gentleman
http://cantstanzya.wordpress.com/
Hehe... Danny must cringe when I comment sometimes. Oopsie.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Not noticed anything so far.
You a pieman now eh?
Underdog Artist, Outcast to the Society, Tetsuya Nomura art fan
no wonder those are the terms indeed. Every term like that has it's reasons.
Underdog Artist, Outcast to the Society, Tetsuya Nomura art fan
What a stat indeed. what really got me reading is the adsense police. must have been hard for you Mr. Choo.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Nope - I know many people who encounter them.
Underdog Artist, Outcast to the Society, Tetsuya Nomura art fan
and another question to clarify my curiousity, is fakku.net safe? I don't wanna get my computer gone busted again since it's a new site to visit for me.
Coder, GFX Designer
http://blog.exolimpo.com
Lucky you... I once got banned by Adsense they never unbanned my acct. :(
Underdog Artist, Outcast to the Society, Tetsuya Nomura art fan
Adsense must have been a scourge to us.....*shrugs*
Coder, GFX Designer
http://blog.exolimpo.com
When my site got banned, I had to change domains and asdasdad. But yeah.. Friends would also do the trick :(
Underdog Artist, Outcast to the Society, Tetsuya Nomura art fan
that adsense is like the dictators of the internet.
Dance Trooper: DCX-001 O.D.E. (Order of the Dancing Empire)
http://dannychoo.com.my
Let's be glad that we all contributed to the wonderful community in dannychoo.com
Yay!!!!!!!! y(^_^)y
student , otaku and awesome blogger
http://otakudan.com
i wish i could get over a million views a month like you, danny. im working hard on my blog to be like you someday.
filmaker
http://bigstick-freshturd-hotday.blogspot.com/
19 million a month...i think i get about 19 a month...tee hee
Your local Otaku Cashier.
Hm, didn't think about adsense and the use of "eyes" and "dolphin". Interesting loophole.
Musician, Sound Engineer, Student - Currently Military (2yrs)
http://abanzai.animeblogger.net
O.O I see more numbers than i can count with my fingers & toes.
Nice stats tho! If only dannychoo.com was on the stocks... X)
Graphic Design student | Receptionist | Otaku
http://sukidesho.blogspot.com/
Yays~ A lovely site and community like this only deserves to grow from strength to strength! ^-^
流浪人
Hmmm...so are we back to "eyes" instead of "oppai"? ^^
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
oppai is good too ^^;
Designer / Visual Editor
http://www.youtube.com/user/ImperialPimp
Wow, thats cool Danny. Hopefully it will just go up from there!
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Its been a while. Where have you been?!
Troubleshooter, Universal Exports
http://funkyblueame.tumblr.com/
Sean, nice to see your words here in DC.com! Miss not having you around...
serving nation Orz
keep up the good work ^^b
http://www.marvinryan.com
impressive stats as usual Danny.
btw didn't know ecchi words on comments would cause banning on adsense. ^^; guess it's another reason to keep the comments on one's blog sanitized.
regarding post last year, you could add a border around it and say "what's up last year"
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Didn't know adsense was this strict...
Dunno if I'll be able to avoid bans when I finally get my own self-host.
But anyways, incredible stats Danny!
I hope someday my blog gets like.... at least 1/10th of that. XD
Or that I at least end up working with someone like Danny...
It has become my dream to work with something like that. :D
銀河帝国五〇一軍团 TK/TD 8316 M.E.P.D. Police Sergeant
http://gordonator.com/
everytime someone refreshes a page, the hit counter +1. If someone visit multiple pages, the hit counter +1 as well right? cos i don't think my hit counter +62(example) when i do a refresh. ^^;
wordpress has its own stat counter, that is to calculate unique user on a daily basis right?
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
The industry standard definition of "hit" is a request from your server (images, files etc)
A counter may use the word "hit" to mean a visit however.
Not sure about the WP counter though.
Informatics(ComSci-ish) student/self-taught graphic designer and illustrator
http://picchar.cerestia.net
Wordpress doesn't count your own browsing of your site ^_^
And I think it counts how many pages are visited, not how many people.
銀河帝国五〇一軍团 TK/TD 8316 M.E.P.D. Police Sergeant
http://gordonator.com/
doesn't count my own browsing that is assuming i log in right? ^^;
Troubleshooter, Universal Exports
http://funkyblueame.tumblr.com/
If you aren't logged in it will most likely count you visiting your own page. ^^
???Confused???
wow the strictness bites...but then again it keeps the conversations here clean and civil...most of the time depending on content...
Photographer/Night Auditor
http://hillbillyotaku.blogspot.com/
Wholy WOW those are some impressive numbers and thanks for the info on hits vs unique visiters I was wondering about that the other day. I've been watching my own stats recently for all my different accounts at blogger, flickr and youtube (just found youtube's insight last week) and sometimes it's just hilarious what will get more hits than others and from who and where.
Nekophilia
Glad to see I'm one of the 60% Firefox users! ^^
Part-time Dreamer
Now I know the reason why "eyes", "dolphin" and the likes are used. LOL!
And also thanks for the explanations! :D
Hikikomori in the making
http://supermariabros.deviantart.com/
Hmm... Looks like there's a drop in stats... Hope this month's gonna get better!
Informatics(ComSci-ish) student/self-taught graphic designer and illustrator
http://picchar.cerestia.net
Colorful barzzz.... @.@
Otaku/Agent Of Death
Darn that reminded me of that last post i had when i said THAT WORD, sorry i caused you so much trouble Danny. I wasn't aware of the problems you go through because of stupid people like me.
Policy & Research Officer
http://www.alafista.com/
Haha no wonder you used words such as dolphin. Too bad adsense banned me during a spike in my traffic and I never managed to get them to undo it.
Mechanical Engineering student
http://sabekujikaneda.multiply.com/
Code words: They're there for a reason O_o
The Sword of Magus
http://daichouginga.blogspot.com/
True enough. But I didn't know about that adsense banning thing.
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
...I would've just figured browsing went down because all us North Americans went back to school. ^^; This is why I'm not in IT and web management.
Student
http://yny-u.com
That is a pretty big drop... But focusing on quality articles sounds good to me.
The "This Time Last Year" thing doesn't actually bother me that much, even though I have been visiting the site for well over a year now. As long as they are clearly flagged, I don't think they are a problem. Certainly I wouldn't want to stop seeing them–sometimes it is nice to read old articles again ^^;
DSL Tech Support T____T, Kita-Kon Chairman
http://www.kita-kon.org
I'm glad to hear that the drop was due to redirecting and probably students returning to school in North America.
The Sword of Magus
http://daichouginga.blogspot.com/
Nice, keep up the good work. Kinda shocked when I heard about adsense banning, that's the first time I heard such thing. ^^;;;
The Sword of Magus
http://daichouginga.blogspot.com/
And may I ask why do you call Ryuune a 'Flapper girl'?
The Sword of Magus
http://daichouginga.blogspot.com/
Oops, wrong post, just ignore this comment. LOL. (I should read the tab title first before posting, lol)
Popular Culture Vulture
Thanks for your tips Danny, I can now go impress the bigwigs.
Kendo Kid / 大学生
http://makocat.deviantart.com
Cheers to another Month! Yay
Physical Therapist
http://www.flyingpussyfoot.com
I always thought that you used those words for your own personal entertainment and didnt even think a second that there could be a reason behind it.
I didnt know that this could affect your site that much.I guess i should watch out what i write ^^;;
thanks for the info
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
But using "eyes" *is* more entertaining ^^;
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
hmmm. commenting cache bug.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
or maybe not.
Physical Therapist
http://www.flyingpussyfoot.com
It definately is^^
Thats why i love using it :D
Troubleshooter, Universal Exports
http://funkyblueame.tumblr.com/
SEO is one interesting topic. I hardly know anything right now. Here, the local community college has an online class dealing with SEO. I'm very temped to take it since I hear one of the instructors is head of a consulting firm.
Danny, did you pick up most of your knowledge from studying on your own or from work experience? Are there any good books you have read on the subject?
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
All self taught through necessity. Google has all the answers ^^
Student artist
http://www.requestview.wordpress.com
Danny I think you are the reason what I converted to Firefox... How much can your sever take before it crashes?
University's Slave
So THAT'S why you have all the unique euphemisms. ^_^ Took me a while to get used to them.
Informatics(ComSci-ish) student/self-taught graphic designer and illustrator
http://picchar.cerestia.net
I was wondering what happened to the Google Adsense area of the user profile. Is it gone because of the adsense police (or was there an article that I missed regarding this XD)?
Web Developer
http://blog.weflyspitfires.com
How come you don't have any (or very little) advertising on your site now?
Otaku Programmer/Gamer/Artist/Photographer
http://argylebolivar.wordpress.com
w00t getting more popular ^^
90's F1 Afficionate and Anti-Otaku
http://www.livestream.com/f1action
next target: Be featured on Speed Channel(It was Speedvision from 1996-2001)