Author Topic: Filmwasters: August Stats (Read 22467 times)

Ed Wenn · « **on:** September 21, 2007, 12:05:15 AM »

I just had a quick look at the stats for August 2007 and here are some of the headlines.

Totals
In August we had a total of 7700 visits from 2042 unique visitors and averaged 248.39 hits per day.

Most Popular Day
Tuesdays averaged out as the most popular day with a total of 2279 pages on Tuesdays across the month.

Length of Visits
24.9% of visits lasted longer than 15 minutes of which 12.1% lasted more than an hour.

Countries
People visited from 26 different country categories (including 'Other' and 'Unknown'). Here's the top ten:

01. United States (with over ten times more visits than from any other country)
02. European Country (as discussed previously, I have no idea what this means)
03. Great Britain
04. Japan
05. Australia
06. Canada
07. Unknown
08. France
09. Isreal
10. Germany

Top Ten key phrases used on search engines:
ricoh gr1
damion rice
betting
introduction
filmwasters
grasstrack
xxxxy
wai wai reload
seiko
gjon mili and picasso

Filmwasters use the following computer operating systems:

Windows XP - 66.2%
Mac OS X - 15.1%
Windows Vista - 8.2%
There was some Linux too - mainly Ubuntu - and one single hit from someone running AmigaOS!

The stats re search engines are actually pretty surprising with Yahoo! pipping the Google by quite some margin:

Yahoo! - 43%
Google - 25.3%
Windows Live - 22.3%

Francois · « **Reply #1 on:** September 21, 2007, 03:47:36 PM »

The top ten phrases on search engines strikes me as strange...

Is it our search engine or all the others combined?

But still, no matter what, here's what I noticed:

Damion Rice ahead of xxxxy (I can see the screaming girls at Damion's door

)

grasstrack

ahead of Picasso

And my cheers go the the guy running AmigaOS (I never met a girl geeky enough to still be running that thing... on the up side, no virus or spyware problems for him

)

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #2 on:** September 22, 2007, 10:42:43 PM »

My wife and I think that the Damion Rice search is for people misspelling the pop singer Damien Rice's name...but we could be wrong. Our Damion is a god after all.

This-is-damion · « **Reply #3 on:** October 17, 2007, 11:09:40 AM »

Its a bl*8dy good job you said that ed, of course people are searching for me, not the other one.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2011, 07:43:10 AM »

I think it would be interesting to take a look at this now again, a few years later

Francois · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2011, 05:52:55 PM »

NCSA Mosaic... running through Trumpet Winsock... on Windows 3.11....... what memories of 16 bit computing greatness

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2011, 11:58:12 PM »

Great idea Jonas. Here you go; stats from February 2011 (not the best month to use for stats since it's shorter than the others, but this isn't about securing advertising revenue

):

Totals
In February we had a total of 36447 visits from 12943 unique visitors. Those figures show an increase from 2007 of between 500%-600%. Wow!

Most Popular Day
Monday appears to be the most popular day, but it's actually a pretty even spread with between 27,000 and 32,000 hits per day across the week.

Length of Visits
22% of visits lasted longer than 15 minutes of which 11.5% lasted more than an hour.

Countries
People visited from well over 100 different country categories (including 'Other' and 'Unknown'). Note that 4 years on the USA and the UK are almost level pegging, but with the USA slightly ahead. This is a major change from 2007 where the USA counted for around 90% of the visits to the site. Figures listed are the number of page hits.

01   United States      265187
02   Great Britain      255763
03   Germany         42379
04   Canada         36195
05   Japan         17518
06   Spain         17196
07   Brazil         12732
08   European country   11402
09   Netherlands      10319
10   Australia      10099
11   Italy         9252
12   Philippines      8971
13   France         8367
14   South Korea      8342
15   Switzerland      8064
16   Sweden         7413
17   Poland         6985
18   Republic of Serbia   4321
19   China         4061
20   Russian Federation   3691

Search Phrases
Top Ten key phrases used on search engines:

filmwasters
ricoh gr1
polaroid 600 se
polaroid 600se
fuji natura classica
witch
polaroid 195
fuji natura
minolta af-c
film wasters

Computer Operating Systems
Filmwasters use the following computer operating systems (% followed by number of hits):

Windows         60.10%
   Windows XP   28.30%   234472
   Windows Vista   0%   574
   Windows      0.20%   1908 (unknown version)
   Windows NT   0.10%   1605
   Windows ME   0%   535
   Windows Vista   9%   74779 (LongHorn)
   Windows Mobile   0%   236
   Windows 98   0%   752
   Windows 95   0.10%   881
   Windows 2008   19.40%   160594
   Windows 2003   0.40%   3878
   Windows 2000   2%   17099
   Windows 3.xx   0%   205
Macintosh      32.40%
   Mac OS X   32.40%   268421
   Mac OS   0%   4
Linux         3.70%
   Zenwalk      0%   34
   Ubuntu      1.80%   15503
   Suse      0.10%   1329
   Red Hat      0%   465
   PCLinuxOS   0%   23
   Mandriva   0%   2 (or Mandrake)
   Gentoo      0%   1
   Fedora      0%   196
   Debian      0%   25
   Centos      0%   33
   Google Android   0.80%   7344
   GNU Linux   0.70%   6396 (Unknown or unspecified distribution)
Others         3.60%
   Unknown      3.10%   26399
   Java      0.20%   2283
   Java Mobile   0%   586
   BlackBerry   0%   236
   Symbian OS   0%   224
   Unix system   0%   114 (unknown version)
   SonyPlayStation 0%   40
   Sun Solaris   0%   1

Web Browsers:
Firefox   45%
MS Internet Explorer   20.90%
Safari   13.70%
Google Chrome   12.50%
Unknown   1.80%
Opera   1.40%
Apple iTunes (media player)   1.30%
Mozilla   1.30%
Android browser (PDA/Phone browser)   0.80%
Netscape   0.20%

Search Engines
The stats re search engines show a massive turnaround for Google over Yahoo!

Google      90 %
Yahoo!      5.1 %
Microsoft Bing   2.9 %

DS · « **Reply #7 on:** March 12, 2011, 01:02:00 AM »

Geekery:
Good to see Firefox come out way in front!

Slightly disappointed to have Linux at only 3.7% (I'm being hypocritical here as my fun computer which i use to visit this site is OSX, but still- Windows? Download Ubuntu- you'll like it! (my work computers are all linux))

"Windows 3.xx 0% 205"- really?- that's cool! Maybe not terribly secure tho…

Disappointed there's no Amiga OS this time around...

(sorry- end of geekery)

Mojave · « **Reply #8 on:** March 12, 2011, 02:50:17 AM »

Ok, that increase in total visits is just staggering!!!

hookstrapped · « **Reply #9 on:** March 12, 2011, 03:52:47 AM »

I plan on visiting European country this summer and look forward to meeting fellow filmwasters there.

Francois · « **Reply #10 on:** March 12, 2011, 03:21:52 PM »

Quote from: DS on March 12, 2011, 01:02:00 AM

"Windows 3.xx 0% 205"- really?- that's cool! Maybe not terribly secure tho…

Well... I don't know but since it won't run NT code, it's probably better than we think...
Besides, just consider the machines it's running on

Only 4 running classic Mac OS... disappointing.

And no BeOS machine...

original_ann · « **Reply #11 on:** March 12, 2011, 05:27:15 PM »

"Witch" is in the top 10 search phrases - but of course. Wait, what??

jojonas~ · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2011, 07:25:19 PM »

hah! glad to see that I'm not alone in using any means necessary to check on the forum. I wonder what surfing from the wii shows up as, safari maybe?

anyway, really good increase of visitors! wow!

but "witch"? hm... witch polaroid 600 se should I buy? haha

Francois · « **Reply #13 on:** March 12, 2011, 09:10:04 PM »

Quote from: original_ann on March 12, 2011, 05:27:15 PM

"Witch" is in the top 10 search phrases - but of course. Wait, what??

I guess that's why

Google search of Filmwasters forums

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #14 on:** March 12, 2011, 09:40:14 PM »

I love stuff like this so it's a surprise that I don't run these stats checks more often, but there's loads here that interests me (both from the perspective of one of the people who runs the site, but also as a an IT geek who's interested in Internet and other computing trends. The Google surge is astonishing for one thing. For another, I have a sneaking suspicion that Francois accounts for around 95% of all page views from Canada which would put him squarely atop the "Individual Visits" leader board!!

Erin: You're right, BTW. I too was astonished to see how much more traffic we are getting 4 years on.

Francois · « **Reply #15 on:** March 12, 2011, 10:36:30 PM »

I also thought about this but didn't want to brag about my Super-Dooper High Speed internet connection (actually my cable modem is so old it still runs on coal!)

Now, I have to find a way to access the site using some oddball OS and browser so I can throw the whole stats off

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #16 on:** March 12, 2011, 11:32:10 PM »

Well, you could always code your own browser :-)

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #17 on:** March 13, 2011, 11:48:01 AM »

Quote from: tkmedia on March 13, 2011, 03:40:15 AM

maybe I should make up a filmwasters name badge!

Now you're talking

jojonas~ · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2011, 09:54:30 AM »

Quote from: tkmedia on March 13, 2011, 03:40:15 AM

maybe I should make up a filmwasters name badge!

hah! I'd be proud to wear one!

edthened · « **Reply #19 on:** March 14, 2011, 01:21:03 PM »

Och a wont wunno rem badjes tae

This-is-damion · « **Reply #20 on:** March 14, 2011, 05:53:51 PM »

clearly ive gone off the boil somewhat.

calbisu · « **Reply #21 on:** March 16, 2011, 06:05:37 AM »

Philippines number 12!!

LT · « **Reply #22 on:** March 16, 2011, 08:18:36 AM »

Quote from: This-is-damion on March 14, 2011, 05:53:51 PM

clearly ive gone off the boil somewhat.

yeah - the tricky second album did for you and your quirky emo-folk

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #23 on:** March 18, 2011, 03:09:36 PM »

Quote from: calbisu on March 16, 2011, 06:05:37 AM

Philippines number 12!!

That'll be you then, Carlos! Well done.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #24 on:** March 26, 2011, 11:18:35 PM »

I have no idea why I love this kinda stuff, I just do!

Francois · « **Reply #25 on:** March 27, 2011, 03:57:21 PM »

Probably has to do with a bit of geekery...

Thom Stone · « **Reply #26 on:** May 10, 2011, 03:03:50 PM »

This is fascinating, I too love this stuff, and often (sadly) wish I has a stats page for my own life :-p, like how many steps have I taken?

Congrats all on the huge increase in visitors, that rocks!

Maybe you should do a filmwasters pioneer card scheme and once you have recruited 500 people and visited the houses of the top 100 posters you get a metal filmwasters badge with your name on it.

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #27 on:** June 03, 2011, 10:34:58 PM »

Thom...did you write 'Pioneer card' just to wind me up?

Thom Stone · « **Reply #28 on:** June 06, 2011, 01:13:32 PM »

Haha, guilty as charged.

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #29 on:** June 07, 2011, 01:01:23 AM »

Well, I can't say I didn't deserve it