monthly site stats for cybersoc.com

Below are the February 2008 usage statistics for cybersoc.com, as reported by statcounter. There were 6,937 unique users for the month, generating 8474 page loads - an average of 239 visitor sessions and 292 page views per day:

Regular readers will know that I don't put a huge amount of stock in these figures, much of it being irrelevant google search traffic. Instead, I'm much more interested in the number of RSS subscribers, as reported by feedburner, where my monthly average was 943.

Those who subscribe to RSS are regular readers and, as such, are qualitatively different than those who accidentally land her after a google search, make their way here via a link on another blog or website, or occasionally remember to stop by for a read. 19% of people who actually visited the site (as opposed to reading via RSS) typed in a URL directly, 60% came from searches (mostly cybersex or casual encounters related) and 20.5% came from direct links on blogs and other pages.

My RSS readers didn't stay put when they get here - 1285 of them followed a link to a website or blog I've linked to. As for inbound clicks from the RSS feed, the vast majority were for my links posts (via del.icio.us).

Overall - and this is a statistic I simply don't understand - the most visitors, according to feedburner's geoIP tracking, came from Tempe, Arizona. Followed no so closely by London, Los Angeles and Borehamwood. I'm fairly certain that's the first time those place names have ended up on the same list:

Is any of this particularly meaningful? Well, probably not, but it's sort of fun thinking there's some meaning in there somewhere.

Comments

[Matt Wardman]

Google have a base in Tempe, AZ - so I'd speculate it is them.

See http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/arizona_060310.html

You'd need to really dig to find out more. Was it one post?

Feedburner, Googlebot would give the impressions but not the uniques.

Google Cache, perhaps?

Rgds

[Robin Hamman]

Thanks for that Matt, I hadn't thought of - and didn't know about - google having a base in Tempe. That could very well explain it. That or I've got a stalker there. ;-)