Site Stats For January

Hamlet Au over at New World Notes is researching Second Life related blogs for an upcoming project, he doesn’t go into details regarding the project but he has posted a couple of blog posts about statistics.

In one, entitled Second Life Website Still Strong in Traffic, Says SimilarWeb, he takes a look at traffic to the Second Life web properties and reports that the traffic looks extremely healthy. In another, which is entitled SL Universe: The Most Popular Site for Second Life Opinion?, Hamlet comes to the conclusion that SLUniverse gets a lot of visitors who talk about Second Life.

Those results are being debated over at New World Notes and statistics often generate questions regarding the data and whether we’re in lies, damned lies and statistics territory. However Hamlet’s project prompted me to investigate my own site statistics.

Search Terms

Search terms are a scary area, some bizarre ones turn up:

• no wonder why the drugs and sex
• strawberry singh has a testicle on her head
• passion that won t let you quit

Poor old Strawberry Singh! Who even searches for that? Anyway the top 20 search terms are generally more sensible, although the odd one or two turn up.

1. second life
2. ciaran marley 
3. social networking tool 
4. ciaran laval 
5. second life linden homes 
6. mmo 
7. secondlife decrease prim count 
8. conversations 
9. geeky 
10. linden homes second life 
11. can i use cloud party without facebook 
12. w9 second life tax 
13. casper vend sl 
14. penny patton second life 
15. convex hull second life 
16. join aka 
17. sex is fun not sin 
18. virwox good 
19. set a prim to convex 
20. w-8ben second life

I have no idea who Ciaran Marley is! Numbers 16 and 17 have me scratching my head too, but generally that’s not a bad list, convex hull, tax and account issues etc.

Country Of Visitors

Next I decided to take a look at where my visitors apparently come from, there are no great surprises here, it’s mostly North America and Europe. Saudi Arabia and Latvia just missed the cut for the top 10.

1. United States
2. China 
3. Great Britain
4. Germany
5. Ukraine
6. Canada
7. France
8. Australia
9. Netherlands
10. Singapore

Operating Systems

When it comes to operating systems, I see that my visitors aren’t very mobile when they visit, with the main players dominating. Although unknown operating systems are quite popular!

1. Windows 58.8 %
2. Unknown 19.1 %
3. Macintosh 14.9 %
4. Linux 6.3 %
5. Java 0.5 %
6. BlackBerry 0 %
7. Unknown Unix system 0 %
8. iOS (iPhone/iPod/iPad/…)0 %
9. Sony PlayStation 0 %
10. Java Mobile 0 %

Browsers

In terms of browsers, it’s again pretty much as one may expect although what qualifies as a browser these days does confuse me based on these results. I use the top two in this list.

1. Google Chrome 26 %
2. Firefox 22.4 %
3. MS Internet Explorer 13.6 %
4. Unknown ? 13.3 %
5. Safari 10.1 %
6. Mozilla 8.2 %
7. Opera 1.7 %
8. IPhone (PDA/Phone browser) 1.2 %
9. NetNewsWire (RSS Reader) 1.2 %
10. FeedDemon (RSS Reader) 0.6 %

I don’t do this very often, if you have a popular website though, it probably is something you should do, although you may need to take some of the results with a pinch of salt.

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