Looking at the first 20 days of December, I see we had 1959 views of our main web page, and 181 checked our calendar http://www.tcs.org/dec2001.htm to see what was coming up at TCS events for the month. Actually I am a bit disappointed, because if that many people were interested in seeing what was going on, why was turnout at the meetings so poor - what was it they were hoping to see?
We see a number of people from all over the world making use of the fact that search engines spider our site and discover articles covering information they have been searching for. I used to wonder at the number of emails I kept getting from people asking how to set up a Ramdrive on WindowsNT or something like that, but I discover from Live Stats that in just the first 20 days of December 702 people came in via the search engines to view http://www.tcs.org/ioport/read9709.htm which is an article which Ken Johnson (from the Chicago Computer Club) wrote on Driving for Performance: RAMDrive and SMARTDrive, and 337 viewed his follow up http://www.tcs.org/ioport/read9711.htm Driving for Performance: SMARTDrive, Part 2. If anyone is interested in writing a RAMdrive/SMARTDrive program for NT/Win2K/XP, it looks like there is definitely a market out there for it. Ken Johnson's articles are frequently picked up from the search engines. 195 viewed http://www.tcs.org/ioport/shrecov2.htm, his May 1997 article Shareware for Recovering Lost Data, Part 2.
479 people looked at http://tcs.org/webpage.htm which contains links to a number of different types of sites, and 391 of them went on to http://tcs.org/search.htm which contains links to a number of different search engines. 201 looked at http://tcs.org/webpage0.htm which contains the links to Internet Programs we presented in 2000.
Of 11,111 sessions we had 9473 (85.26%) that just looked at one page, 1269 (11.42%) viewed 2-5 pages, 141 (1.27%) viewed 6-10 pages, 82 (0.74%) viewed 11-20 pages, 59 (0.53%) viewed 21-50 pages, 27 (0.24%) viewed 51-100 pages, and 47 (0.42%) viewed 101 or more pages. 9868 (88.81%) sessions lasted 1 minute, 568 (5.11%) sessions lasted 2-5 minutes, 462 (4.16%) sessions lasted 6-15 minutes, 81 (0.73%) sessions lasted 16-30 minutes, 25 (0.23%) sessions lasted 31-45 minutes, 13 (0.12%) sessions lasted 46-60 minutes, and 81 (0.73%) sessions lasted 61 or more minutes.
The statistics are just good for October through December, but we can see that even though we are just looking at 20 days so far in December, sessions for December were greater than for October or November:
Activity during the month varied considerably day to day:
Interestingly the hits per session seemed to average about 4.5 across all three months:
Yet during the month, the hits per session varied from 4 to 8:
I am not sure how they identify which state visitors come from, because in the Breakdown of American Traffic by State the largest number was from an unknown state, but unless most of them were from Oklahoma, it seems strange that more people visited our site from Virginia, California, Arizona, and Texas than came from Oklahoma. It is possible that the system is checking the domain name of the ISP the visitor is using, beause aol.com is registered as being in Dulles, VA, NetZero.com is registered as being in Thousand Oaks, CA, etc.
| State | Sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| ?? | 734 | 6.59 % |
| Virginia | 509 | 4.57 % |
| California | 376 | 3.38 % |
| Arizona | 82 | 0.74 % |
| Texas | 78 | 0.70 % |
| Oklahoma | 59 | 0.53 % |
| Massachusetts | 34 | 0.31 % |
| Colorado | 32 | 0.29 % |
| Missouri | 26 | 0.23 % |
| New Jersey | 13 | 0.12 % |
| Washington DC | 12 | 0.11 % |
| Washington | 4 | 0.04 % |
We had 13 visitors from Canada, 1 from Mexico, 2 from South America, 57 from Europe, 42 from Asia, and 5 from Australia.
The link to the December issue of the I/O Port is http://tcs.org/ioport01.htm#DEC01. For example the article about our Refurbishing Computers Project winning a Jerry Award for Community Service projects is at http://tcs.org/ioport/dec01/jerry_award.htm and http://tcs.org/ioport01.htm#DEC01 is the page that points to it. It appears that a lot of people expect to have an index.htm file in the current directory, because 126 times someone erased the article they were reading and tried to go to http://tcs.org/ioport/dec01/ to access other articles. The possibity exists that I am wrong, and that there is something which generates those links, so if you get an error trying to access a directory when reading the I/O Port, please let me know, so that I can fix it.
One such error which I did have in the site, which was found by 35 people was that they tried to access http://tcs.org/links.htm and I thought they were generating that link, but they were not. It was the default link presented in the Side Nav Bar when one used a browser which did not support Javascript, and I had forgotten to create that page. Well it now exists, so hopefully people won't be getting that error any more.
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