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.
