www.Kropf.net statistics
(Example and Explanations)
The "304's" below are requests served by the browser's local cache.
i.e. the page was visited previously, and a copy still resides in a cache,
therefore if the page hasn't changed, the server doesn't need to resend the page.
All URL pages don't necessary exist, they simply show the URL that was requested.
These reports are compiled on a monthly basis.
For the period between 01/Oct/2000:00:36:12 and 31/Oct/2000:23:57:17 -
Total hits: 3186 (This includes images and non-existant pages)
Total unique hosts: 822 (A rough count of "people" accessing your site)
A 'hit' is counted for every object from the web site.
If your current homepage has 15 images on it, there will be 16 hits to
load that page (the text document itself and the 15 images).
The number of "Total unique hosts" is closer to the actual number of
people viewing the site. Although 'proxy/cache servers' (used in
abundance by AOL, etc.) regularly distort the statistics. AOL in particular
may use 16 different 'proxy/cache servers' to load a 15 image 'home page'.
And after those objects are loaded into their proxy/cache servers, subsequent
AOL customers can view those objects for a period of time without your
web site even seeing that traffic.
Generally the closest indicator of your site traffic is in the section
titled "The most commonly accessed URL's". The 'Number of Accesses'
for the 'URLs' ending in '.html' show how many times that particular
page was loaded. (This 'access' could be by a person's browser,
or by a search engine's 'robot'.) The '304' code means a previous viewer
accessed the page again, but the server did not need to 'serve' it because
the viewer's browser already had that page in their local 'cache'.
i.e. that was a 'repeat visit'.
Top 20 hours of the period
Count Bytes 304's Date/Time
-----------------------------------
88 825326 0 01/Oct/2000:16
46 367272 0 21/Oct/2000:21
38 350509 0 22/Oct/2000:02
37 287550 0 27/Oct/2000:14
33 348516 0 20/Oct/2000:18
31 113410 20 01/Oct/2000:03
30 207068 4 18/Oct/2000:10
29 267176 0 09/Oct/2000:09
29 230460 1 19/Oct/2000:09
27 201375 0 20/Oct/2000:21
26 279901 0 23/Oct/2000:05
26 170419 0 13/Oct/2000:12
25 215675 0 15/Oct/2000:16
24 169403 0 31/Oct/2000:04
23 104960 9 15/Oct/2000:05
23 95124 13 28/Oct/2000:20
23 147208 0 11/Oct/2000:19
22 145980 2 25/Oct/2000:14
22 177614 0 09/Oct/2000:18
21 151308 0 23/Oct/2000:11
The most commonly accessed URL's
Number of Total
Accesses Bytes Size 304's URL
--------------------------------------------
372 9205769 26780 24 /
246 84668 347 2 /robots.txt
231 1790587 8341 16 /micropolis.html
222 2038192 9799 14 /bg_white.gif
184 930204 5346 10 /msfreeanima.gif
138 566446 4643 16 /cpu-pp.gif
137 279240 2148 7 /gkey_bar_wh.gif
130 498004 4082 8 /ribbonsm.gif
129 265472 2176 7 /anim_vi.gif
127 60480 504 7 /anybrow5.gif
123 1531764 13092 6 /bogmind.gif
117 1002685 8719 2 /ti-modules.html
93 1157400 12860 3 /hype.html
80 329329 4277 3 /other-kropfs.html
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
1 207 207 0 /one-liners01.htmlhttp:/www.powerseek.com/flash/
1 26476 26476 0 /index.html
The people most often accessing your server
Number of Total
Accesses Bytes 304's Host/IP
-----------------------------------------
101 907960 0 www.ip3000.com
67 365166 0 marvin.northernlight.com
65 541909 0 atrax1.pa-x.dec.com
44 358584 0 209.67.252.215
30 146499 9 208.48.239.237
30 67832 21 wan-25-62.sdsl.bestweb.net
29 264883 0 atrax0.pa-x.dec.com
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
1 8341 0 uss.com
1 15083 0 cache-mtc-al08.proxy.aol.com
1 8341 0 pD9003D37.dip.t-dialin.net
A sorted list of "Referrers" to your web site.
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [02/Oct/2000:00:55:10] /ti-modules.html
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [06/Oct/2000:13:43:18] /ti-modules.html
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [06/Oct/2000:16:32:21] /ti-modules.html
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [07/Oct/2000:08:04:54] /ti-modules.html
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [08/Oct/2000:12:33:16] /ti-modules.html
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [08/Oct/2000:12:33:23] /ti-modules.html
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [09/Oct/2000:10:20:26] /ti-modules.html
"http://99er.hispeed.com/prod.html" [20/Oct/2000:23:46:44] /ti-modules.html
"http://ask.com/main/metaanswer.asp?metaEngine=directhit&origin=0&MetaURL=http%3A%2F%2Fask%2Edirecthit%2Ecom%2Ffcgi%2Dbin%2FRedirURL%2Efcg%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ekropf%2Enet%2Fmicropolis%2Ehtml%26qry%3DMicropolis%26rnk%3D1%26src%3DDH%5FAsk%5FSRCH&qCategory=jeeves&metaTopic=Your+Micropolis+drive+fail%2C+too%3F&ItemOrdinal=0&logQID=67E7BAAE96F3D44D80028FE0CF66C76D&sv=61" [27/Oct/2000:07:05:26] /micropolis.html
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?search=Parsec%2C+Munchman%2C+Hunt+the+Wompas&src=wc_results&showSummary=false" [04/Oct/2000:17:12:42] /ti-modules.html
"http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?search=ti99%2F4a&src=wc_more&start=75&showSummary=false&perPage=25" [04/Oct/2000:17:34:35] /ti-modules.html
"http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=%22TI+99%22" [30/Oct/2000:20:05:36] /ti-modules.html
"http://www.worldnet.att.net/cgi-bin/websearch?cmd=qry&qry=airport+and+x-ray+and+laptop" [07/Oct/2000:00:40:29] /travel-tips.html
"http://www.worldnet.att.net/cgi-bin/websearch?cmd=qry&qry=x-ray+and+laptops&image.x=4&image.y=25" [01/Oct/2000:01:00:33] /travel-tips.html
These are web pages of others that contain "links" into your site.
The beginning of each line is the URL (address) that contained the link.
Often these are dynamic search engine pages that listed your web site.
These are often very enlightening (even surprising!) as they disclose
the actual keywords that were used to find your site.
The date/time stamp is listed next.
The last field is the page referred to at your site.
As in previous log entries, these pages don't necessary exist,
they simply show the URL that the link pointed to.
(Your home page is listed as either "/index.html", or simply "/".)
Ranking:
A big question is: How do I improve the 'ranking' in search engines?
The actual criteria used by each particular search engine is usually a
carefully guarded secret (to prevent 'spamming a search engine').
However, a site gets higher ranking for many of the (common sense) reasons
including, but not limited to:
- A well structured, functionally efficient site with,
- great human readable content including ALT tags for images,
- keywords inclusive,
- many sites linking to the site,
- probably many good links from the site,
- absence of what search engine programmers deem inappropriate (spamming),
- and probably a host of other criteria that can change as often as any
search engine programmer changes it.
A common problem seen recently are links embedded in Flash or Javascript.
While these techniques may be visually appealing, the search engine's 'robots'
are usually 'blind' to these links! Many beautiful sites have provided no way
for the 'bots' to crawl and index such a web site. Keep in mind that most
search engines can not and/or will not follow Flash OR Javascript links.
To increase search engine crawling capability, include a text menu for the
site, at least listed at the bottom of the home page. You might also create
a 'site map' page that has links to all of your pages (such as Kropf.com has
at http://Kropf.com/sitemap.html) and make sure that it is reachable from a
simple text link on the 'home page' (index.html).
For improved Google ranking, here's the page to start from:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
There seems to be a lot of pages that are not directly linked in a
progressive chain, so I suggest going back to this page, and view each of
the links until you've viewed them all (looking for the yet unvisited links).
(The three sections above have been reduced in this example)