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WEB STATISTICS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT
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Taking one day at random: on Monday 25th May, 2009 - a holiday in the UK. I did not visit the site at any time during the 24 hours of 25th (EDT). There were 239 hits from 46 sites and 80 visits. Of these hits 38 were code not found (404), and of these 38, 28 were by crawlers looking for robot text. There is no robot text on the site, and I do not intend to add any to prevent crawlers from indexing pages on the site. Each page carries a link back to the home page. The home page carries only one image and no style sheets (It now carries no images. 14.10.09). My intent being to reduce confusing hits to a minimum. Six of the codes not found were mistyped urls. There were three out of the 38 not found pages that were looking for favicon, a site to which I have never belonged. One of the codes not found was to a url removed some time ago. I have replaced this url with a page providing a link back to the hosting website. One hit was to a page that has never existed. Hits to the site in May 2009 have come from 53 countries. The stats show which urls are visited, but I am unable to tell who is visiting unless you have not used your internet options to protect your specific identity. Most people do or only a site is shown in the stats as the origin of a visitor. I will not contact you as a result of a visit or pass to third parties that you have visited if for some reason you have forgotten to protect your identity. Once I have sales people working for me they will not be given information about who has visited the site as the basis for a sales campaign, only the customers I am aiming for, and these are the ones mentioned some years ago: publishers; higher education, highly regulated industries, ngos and igos and certain types of charity or high tech industry. But all advertisers are actually welcome if my site fits what they are seeking to accomplish, except for gambling and adult ads. High Street betting shops such as William Hill appear on my site because of the exchange link I have with UK Buttons, and I do not exclude William Hill because I know who they are and have seen their shops on the high street.
Added 10th may, 2009. From 1st June 2008 to 9th May 2009 (just over 11 months) there have been 131, 854 hits to the site. I have gradually been removing images from the home page to reduce the number of hits that are because images are called up at the same time as the home page, and there are no style sheets to call up. For four days the stats collecting option was disabled.
Added 4th March, 2009. I initiated a FreeFind Robot indexing of this website on 4.3.09. It spidered 296 pages. If you input Ads by Google to the FreeFind Search Box on the home page you will get a list of those pages carrying script for Google Ads. There is nothing in my coding (Helen Gavaghan), nor in the file manager for this website, that prevents Google Ads being served to pages of my website. Nor is there anything in my coding nor on this website to prevent the right click option working so that that assertion can be verified. If you have paid Google to serve ads to one of my pages and they are not appearing on my website please contact your Google Advertising executive directly. Before today, the last time I asked FreeFind to spider these pages was before the end of January, that is before any webstats were available for February.
Added 15.2.09 gmt pm
To be clarified by site manager: Was the WebMarshall I saw on the Halifax machine responsible for the temporary blocking of my site or was it because I tried to download something, forgetting I was not at my own computer. Was the flash of WebMarshall I saw on the screen actually because they have WebMarshall on their system. This issue as far as I know is unconnected with why neither I nor a witness saw Google ads being served to my site in Halifax Central Library. And to be clarified with Leeds: do they have WebMarshall on their machine and what was the software that blocked my site. Why was it blocked and was the blocking automatic?
Added 15.2.09 gmt am
To anyone from Google, I have now sent you an email about this issue, concerning serving Google ads, via a contact link on your analytics page. The last time I found a link to contact you, you did not respond, I hope to hear from you this time.
Added 14.2.09
In the 12 months to the end of 13th February, 2009 there were 102,124 hits to the site. However my Stats do not tally with the number of Google page impressions, but this very probably is not Google's fault. For example on at least two days I know that in two separate UK public libraries (Leeds and Halifax) Google ads were not being served to my pages. But I also know, because it is my account and I have access to the account, that Google has blocked no url on my website. On 20th January there were 451 hits to my site, but only 4 google page impressions. These figures could be an outlier. Though my stats do not say the exact number of hits per SPECIFIC page per day, the overall figure is that roughly 60 (actually between 20 and 25 per cent, correction within 24 hours of first posting, and made on the same day of posting 14.2.09) per cent of the hits are to my home page and pages carrying Google script at www.gavaghancommunications, accessible also by redirect from www.sciencepeopleandpolitics.com. My home page and all my Google ad carrying pages carries one google ad unit.
On 20th January I did not sit and work at a computer of any kind at any stage during the day, so none of the hits or page impressions were generated by me. I still do not know whether when Webalyser 2.1 assigns something to the US Commercial category the originating machine or the computer the search passes through just before arriving at my site is physically in the US, and I do not think what I have read from Webalyser is quite clear on this issue.
I do not know what accounts in total for this discrepancy between Google page impressions and Webalyser hits, but I have discovered that though the Google ads are served to my home page and that of the machine of the managing director of the company owning the title, they are not served to two pages on machines located in two separate UK public libraries in different local authority areas (Leeds and Halifax). I am in the process of trying to resolve this issue and find out whether the ads are or are not served to other places around the UK and the world. And to find out if this lack of serving ads to my pages is happening all the time.
I would draw advertisers' attention to the fact that I have already raised this issue elsewhere on this site on pages directly relevant to you. I am also now aware that I need to challenge attempts by WebMarshall to block my pages. At Leeds City Library I was told this blocking happens automatically, even to some of the Council's own pages, thus for heaven knows how long before I realised they were blocking my site my site was blocked totally. The last time I was in the library they had in response to me unblocked the site. But presumably WebMarshall could be automatically blocking my site in all kinds of places of which I am unaware. So it would help if I knew if there was a central registry of blocked sites so that I could write to them all to make sure they unblock the site.
The Google script for ads to be served to my account is in my file manager on the machine where I rent space for my website. I have collected, using print screen, the proof of this. In addition, though I have Mozilla Firefox on my machine I actually use IE for browsing and probably have opened Firefox only a couple of time, yet it is Mozilla that is by far the most popular browser through which visitors arrive at my site. This is fine by me because Mozilla makes it easier to see coding mistakes, and the code for the editorial on the site, GavaghanCommunications.com, which is copyrighted by Helen Gavaghan, is meant to be open access. It is meant to be one of the factors that attracts visitors to my website, and thus it is an important part of my business development that there is no censorship of this code. For it to be clear that there is no censorship nor anti-competitive factor at work for me as a publisher I would personally argue, and I have had and have sought no legal advise on this issue, that the right click option and view source option need to work. If it does not then I personally would argue that part of my intellectual property vested in copyright is being stolen from me. Once again I would at this stage (14.2.09) be making that argument without benefit of legal advise. The advertisers I am courting might, for all I know, want or need to keep their code private for exactly the same reasons I want my code to be open access. Again, providing I am not breaking the law, that is fine by me.
And may I say to Google it would be enormously helpful if you could possibly please make it easier for those of us carrying adsense to contact you. As it happens I am reduced to having to try to find the name and business address of your company secretary. As of this morning gmt at about 6 am your company was blocking no urls to my website thus the green block as far as I know simply means that no one has bid via your company to advertise on that particular page. It remains my intent to carry Google ads until 5.4.10.
END OF TEXT ADDED AND CORRECTED 14.2.09 GMT
In the 12 months to the end of 31st December, 2008 there were just over 100 000 hits to the site, but it is far from clear what these numbers mean to potential advertisers, whether they are a useful to them or not, nor is it obvious that the majority of these hits were robots without readers. There were 14,077 hits in December. 7193 ok, 5697 not modified, 944 not found (I am working on reducing these) and 187 partial content. I have not worked out how these numbers reconcile with google page impressions, which are very low, even though it seems to be pages carrying google script that individually are the most frequently visited. And it seeems that page impressions would register even if the hit came from a robot without a reader, rather than a robot set in motion by a searcher -- if such things exist.
In the 12 months to the end of 29th November, 2008 there were 96, 480 hits to the site.
In the 12 months to the end of 15th November, 2008 there were 83 879 hits from around the world to the site.
In the 12 months to 31st October, 2008 there were 83 294 hits from around the world. The largest single percentage of hits in any month comes from the US Commercial sector, based in the US. This information is given to me by my web hosting company, Register.com. I am in the process of clarifying this last piece of information. As far as I know now (30.11.08) all the stats are generated for the hosting company with webaliser version 2.1. I see only the top few entries from any category.
In the 12 months to 11 October, 2008 there were 71 818 hits from around the world to the site.
In the 12 months to 30 September, 2008 there were just short of 70 000 from around the world to the site.
by Helen Gavaghan
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The site manager (Helen Gavaghan - 01422 886015) last reviewed and modified this URL on 14.10, 2009.
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