Google Analytics Stats

Wensley at Rifter Drifter recently posted his Google Stats, which drove me to check my stats for the first time in over a year! Very interesting to see your traffic distribution, sources of traffic, etc. As such, here is a quick recap and at the bottom, my thoughts...

January GA Stats:

General:

• 49,486 Views on 21,247 Unique Visitors
• 40.82% new visitors in January
• Avg Time on site is 2:51

Geo:

• 40% US
• 11% UK
• 9% Canada
• 6% Germany
• 5% Aussies
• 2.7% Netherlands
• 2% each for Sweden, Denmark, France, Poland
• ...then 77 other countries under 1%
• Iceland (CCP!) at 0.33%
  

Traffic Sources:

• 65% Search Engines - Nearly all Google, where are Yahoo! (.03%) and Bing! (0%)?
• Top keywords were all about "eve wormhole" and close variants combined at 17% of searches, the rest being names of sleeper sites
• 19% Direct Traffic
• 16% Referring Sites - Facebook (6%), scrapheap-challenge.com (2.65%), crazykinux (1.96%), Mynxee/lifeinlowsec.blogspot.com (1%), long list of others at under 1%.
  

Most popular pages in January:

• Root/Home Page (25.59%)
• The demands of W-Space Colonization (4%)
• EVE Grids and WH Exit management (2.38%)
• Hybrid Polymer Reactions (1.66%)

Most popular pages in December:

• Root/Home Page (27.91%)
• Wormhole System Daily Ritual (2.24%)
• Living in WH Space (My very first post still sees the most traffic!) (2.18%)

Thoughts:

• Interesting to see that the traffic is so dispersed across all posts - a lot of visitors appear to read through all the posts - nearly as many views of prior months posts as current-month posts.
• Hardly any referring traffic. I have not jumped on the EVE Tweet bandwagon, nor have I campaigned for any kind of premium links from others - just interesting to note that other than Kinux, not a ton of referring traffic.
• Shocks me that my first-ever post on this blog, from June 25th 2009, still gets some of the highest pageviews of all of my (currently 121) posts.
• The most-read post ever? The first-ever post, but excluding that, it is the post on EVE Grids and WH Exit management. I suppose that is not too surprising, considering it generated a whopping 22 comments, all of which were good posts instead of one-liners...
• Most commented post? A recent one: Blockade Runner Transports == WIN with 23 comments.
  

Fly Safe!