Some statistics for this blog - first half 2006

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Here are a few statistics for this blog, reporting on 181 days, from Jan 01, 2006 00:00 to Jun 30, 2006 23:59.

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Overview

Month  Pages  Hits  Errors  Unique Hosts  MBytes  Visits 
Downloads
Jan  308,765  634,569  26,083  51,602  6,168M  244,274 
66,820
Feb  274,141  540,673  24,988  46,702  5,246M  220,473 
65,433
Mar  337,676  599,045  58,670  49,545  5,443M  278,592 
80,748
Apr  312,510  551,399  52,841  44,873  4,212M  246,040 
82,893
May  386,504  704,704  45,849  60,045  10,845M  292,680 
88,933
Jun  382,306  663,027  63,589  50,567  10,821M  288,748 
88,676

Note: hits are all inclusive; pages are only HTML and text pages; downloads are files including all Atom and RSS feeds but excluding all graphics (Flash files are counted as graphics).

Details on visits

Month   Visits   1 Page Visits   1 Page Visits % of Visits   Search Visits   Search Visits % of Visits   Robot Visits   Robot Visits % of Visits
Jan   244,274   191,204   78.27%   20,976   8.59%   126,575   51.82%
Feb   220,473   174,733   79.25%   19,957   9.05%   114,996   52.16%
Mar   278,592   230,551   82.76%   19,737   7.08%   139,563   50.10%
Apr   246,040   202,093   82.14%   18,159   7.38%   127,092   51.66%
May   292,680   234,583   80.15%   22,967   7.85%   157,387   53.77%
Jun   288,748   235,809   81.67%   20,499   7.10%   154,921   53.65%

Note: Robots include search engines, spiders and aggregators. I still don't have an accurate way to track usage of the RSS feeds (and the raising power of online aggregators don't make those things really easier to analyse, at least not yet without digging into the log files.)

Main totals and daily averages

    Total   Avg. Day   Cur. Day
Visits   1,570,807   8,679   9,595
Total Hits   3,693,417   20,407   21,519
Page Hits   2,001,902   11,061   12,576
Downloads   694,135   3,835   4,007
Bytes transferred   42,736M   236.12M   384.19M
Errors   272,020   1,503   2,044

Also for those 6 months, unique hosts totaled 264,311.
Note: "Cur. Day" are daily averages for the last 7 days of June.

Since the launch of padawan.info 3 years and 7 months, I've published 892 entries that received 1104 comments on my English blog, some 1255 links on my "Food for Thoughts" linksblog, plus 643 entries that received 3399 comments on my French blog. (Note: I disabled TrackBacks a year ago because they're still dead to me.) The ratios of comments/entry remain stable at 1.2 in English but up in French to 5.3 (from 4.4 in 2005) — it's tempting to attribute that again to our legendary "grande gueule", but it's more likely related to the release of my book on business blogging (Blogueur d'entreprise) in January, which garnered excellent feedback, plus the fact that the French represent my biggest audience (need to look up the figure).

Comparing the monthly metrics between Dec 05 and Jun 06, the trends are: +43% in page views, +36% hits, +36% visits, +13% unique hosts, +130% bandwidth (don't tell my host!).

So it looks like the figures keep improving for the third year in a row, which is nice. You can see my statistics for 2005 for a comparison.