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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Visitor Stats For April, May, and June 2004

Categories: Articles • Site Updates

I just finished compiling the stats for a few months worth of visitors to the site which is something I do every once and awhile mostly out of curiosity.

If you would like to know a little about your fellow Sixpence fans feel free to read on.  Hopefully you will find something interesting.

To start out I will give some stats about the visitors themselves and will finish with the way those visitors found my site.  The second set of stats is the most interesting to me but the other stuff has some value as well.  I’ll add a little commentary to the stats when I have something mildly interesting to say about them.

Total unique visitors to the site during the last three months:
1444

Comments:
The numbers of unique visitors is down.  Which is understandable since Sixpence is no longer even together.  I’m actually surprised that the number of unique visitors wasn’t smaller.

Countries That Visitors Hail From:
US Commercial 27.79%
Mexico 3.41%
Brazil 2.75%
Australia 2.39%
Italy 2.32%
Peru 1.49%
Japan 0.67%
US Educational 0.63%
Russian Federation 0.48%
Netherlands 0.42%
Germany 0.35%
Hungary 0.33%
Sweden 0.29%
France 0.22%
Lithuania 0.20%
Thailand 0.19%
Argentina 0.19%
Canada 0.19%
Israel 0.17%
Philippines 0.14%
Iceland 0.13%
Denmark 0.10%
New Zealand (Aotearoa) 0.08%
Portugal 0.07%
United Kingdom 0.06%
Honduras 0.05%
Austria 0.05%
Spain 0.03
Unknown/Unresolved Remain Percentage

Comments:
It is important to note that the country stats don’t technically assure that the visitor actually came from that country.  It does say what the network that person is connecting to the internet through identifies itself as from.  But still an interesting Statistic.

Browsers:

Comments:
This one is pretty interesting to me for a number of reasons.  Safari, my main browser, went from 1.5% to 11% which is a pretty big jump.  Netscape (Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape) percentages rose also but only by a percent.  The result is that Internet Explorer numbers dropped quite a bit.  From the perspective of a web designer this is a heartening thing because Internet Explorer is a horribly out of date browser but its sheer number of users necessitates designing around it’s limitations.

Operating Systems:

Comments:
The numbers for this one also changed quite a bit.  Macintosh numbers are up 10% and Windows numbers are down the same amount.  There actually were some Linux users as well but their numbers were so small that the graph displays them as 0%.

Cookies Enabled or Disabled:

Comments:
This isn’t a statistic I had last time because I didn’t have a way of getting it.  However it is interesting because cookies are now used on the site for the member pages.  If you don’t have cookies enabled you can’t login.  As you can see everyone has cookies enabled which is probably why I haven’t had anyone complain about not being able to login.  :)

Screen Resolution:

Comments:
This is another statistic I didn’t have last time but was interested in because I designed the site for at least a 1024x768 screen resolution whereas my previous design was for 800x600.  The site still works at the smaller resolution but some things do not look like they should.  As you can see 19% of the visitors are not seeing the site in its best resolution.  I’m hoping that 6% of other resolutions is not people trying to view it at 640x480 because the site looks absolutely awful at that resolution. 

How are people finding the site:
48% of the visitors are coming from direct links from another site.  42% of the visitors are coming from a Google search.  The remain percentage are coming from various search engines as well as links from their webmail account (Hotmail, Orkut, GMail, etc.).

People using search engines are finding the site using the following search phrases (In no particular order):
astronaut pushers
matt slocum
sam ashworth
cornerstone dvd
cornerstone festival blog
steve taylor second chance movie
sixpence this beautiful mess
sam ashworth astronaut
jimmy abegg painting
avril lavigne mp3 downloads
sam ashworth music
sixpence none the richer
divine discontent mp3
chris taylor art musician
matt sam ashworth
mess sixpence
aaron blog luther college
second chance directed by steve taylor
self titled sixpence
lindsay jamieson
20 years and counting dvd cornerstone
steve taylor second chance
astronaut pushers nash
who sings the song what a beautiful mess im in?
interview with jamie baker
mess.methnen floodzone
ladies feeds video
methnen
tiesto radio feeds
lyrics to there she goes by sixpence none the richer
cornerstone sixpence
slocum funny name
debbie taylor artist
methnen’s mess
mess video sixpence
sixpence the vine
making god smile
sixpence ground they shook
matt slocum blog
kim thomas paintings
long time ago why flowers are so important
kim thomas art city on a hill prints
bars in nashville
video of need to be next to you by leigh nash
art interpretation beautiful

Comments:
Most of these make sense.  There were some weird ones though like: “long time ago why flowers are so important” Where the heck did that come from?  Also the “bars in nashville” one is kind of funny.

Here is a heavily edited list of sites that are linking to mine (Sites giving me the most hits are listed at the top):
http://www.shinemedia.de/ (David Decker’s Sixpence Website)
http://home.earthlink.net/~gregcarpenter01/ (Greg’s Vine Website)
http://ubl.artistdirect.com/music/artist/card/0,,574708,00.html (UBL Artist Directory Sixpence Page)
http://www.integridad.com/foros/ (A Mexican forum with a thread on Sixpence)
http://unscene.blogspot.com/ (Joel’s Blog)
http://blog.methnen.com/ (My Blog)
http://www.thephorum.net/ (Another forum with a thread on Sixpence)
http://forum.cmcentral.com/ (Yet another forum with a thread on Sixpence)
http://homepage.mac.com/methnen/ (My old website which forwards to my new site)
http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/jason/ (Jason’s Blog)
http://www.geocities.com/thsixpence/ (A miniature Sixpence site with links to the major sites)
http://www.livejournal.com/community/sixpence_ntr/ (A LiveJournal community site on Sixpence)
http://james.anthropiccollective.org/ (James’ Blog)
http://www.geocities.com/jeneric44/e-r-i-c.html (The personal site of Eric a member of the band Jeneric)

Comments:
I probably missed some of the referring sites.  Those with blogs know what sifting through a referrer list can be like.  It is littered with spam from pornography sites and with webmail pages.  Many of the sites listed are also on the old list.  However, there are a few notable differences.  First Sixpence’s website was formerly my biggest referrer and it has completely dropped of the list because their site is basically gone.  Second Blogs made their appearance this time.  Even I got in on the bloging thing this year.  I had at first thought they were just a fad but they’ve gone pretty mainstream and many of them are very interesting reads though my own is probably drop dead boring to everyone but me.  :) Also on James’ Blog I can’t figure out where I am linked from but it shows up on my referrers from time to time to so there must be a link there somewhere.

Final Comments:
That is it for this time.  I hope someone found it slightly interesting.  It is nice to know people are still interested in Sixpence and what the members are up to.  And if the huge number of Astronaut Pushers searches coming in is any indication people are pretty excited about Matt’s next project.

Posted by Jamie at 07:28 AM