2008 web statistics

January 4th, 2009 by jason Leave a reply »

I’ve hosted a web server on the internet for more than a decade.  It is a hobby that helps keep my skills sharpened and most of the time I enjoy it very much.  Over the years I have hosted web sites for individuals and small businesses.  Aside from due diligence, one of my interests is to examine the logs and look at trends and statistics.

2008 was the web server’s busiest year yet.  My domain, boche.net, was purely a family/hobbiest site.  The addition of a VMware virtualization blog in mid October caused boche.net domain traffic to jump by a factor of ten.  I had more traffic in December than I had five previously combined months.  A new high watermark of well over 1 million hits was set compared to 323,000 total hits in 2007.

Increased traffic urged me to upgrade my bandwidth.  Fortunately, I was able to pick up a sponsor late in 2008 – vmpeople.net.  Please visit them if you have a chance – especially if you are searching for a job or a qualified engineer to help you with a project.

Without further delay, here are some of the interesting stats that stood out to me for the year 2008:

Unique visitors 36,932
Number of visits 54,247
Pages 347,179
Hits 1,378,355
Bandwidth 16.77GB

Average busiest day of the week:  Wednesday

Average least busiest day of the week:  Saturday

Average busiest hour of the day:  8 am CT

Average least busiest hour of the day:  1 am CT

Top 10 visitor domains/countries:

Domain/Country Pages Hits Bandwidth
Unknown (unresolvable IP) 126,583 442,561 5.38GB
Commercial (.com) 71,498 277,979 3.29GB
Network (.net) 55,813 291,385 3.63GB
Netherlands (.nl) 6,186 31,077 364.67MB
China (.cn) 4,051 4,859 11.74MB
Germany (.de) 3,964 15,195 309.21MB
United Kingdom (.uk) 3,759 19,052 349.44MB
South Africa (.za) 3,527 4,840 50.51MB
Australia (au) 3,068 18,287 335.27MB
Canada (.ca) 2,389 13,966 185.33MB

Top 10 robots/spider visitors (numbers after + are successful hits on robot.txt files):

Robot/Spider Visitor Hits Bandwidth
Yahoo Slurp 24,258+2,691 899.63MB
BaiDuSpider 17,223+71 8.54MB
Googlebot 10,587+262 272.53MB
MSNBot 6,643+2,,430 99.14MB
Feedburner 8,492 11.16MB
Unknown robot 5,608+117 314.38MB
MSNBot-media 3,071+1007 459.43MB
Unknown robot 3,268+542 330.10MB
Voila 2,459+756 59.40MB
Google AdSense 3,091+97 116.51MB

Visits duration (number of visits:  54,247 – average 291 seconds):

Visits duration Number of visits Percent
0s-30s 41,963 77.3%
30s-2mn 3,351 6.1%
2mn-5mn 2,039 3.7%
5mn-15mn 2,175 4%
15mn-30mn 1,179 2.1%
30mn-1h 1,234 2.2%
1h+ 2,306 4.2%

Operating systems (this category deserved a full listing):

Version Hits Percent
Windows 16,452 88.1%
Windows XP 9,638 51.6%
Windows (unknown version) 4 0%
Windows NT 1,775 9.5%
Windows Me 2 0%
Windows Vista 3,909 20.9%
Windows CE 61 0.3%
Windows 95 4 0%
Windows 2003 863 4.6%
Windows 2000 196 1%
BSD 16 0%
FreeBSD 16 0%
Linux 563 3%
Ubuntu 338 1.8%
Suse 33 0.1%
Fedora 57 0.3%
Debian 33 0.1%
Centos 18 0%
GNU Linux (unknown or unspecified distribution) 84 0.4%
Macintosh 1,142 6.1%
Mac OS X 1,142 6.1%
Others 495 2.6%
Unknown 476 2.5%
Sony PlayStation Portable 19 0.1%

Top 10 browsers:

Browser Hits Percent
MS Internet Explorer 846,588 61.4%
Firefox 394,107 28.5%
Safari 55,359 4%
SharpReader (RSS Reader) 3,949 2.4%
Mozilla 24,965 1.8%
Opera 11,305 0.8%
Unknown 6,468 0.4%
NetNewsWire (RSS Reader) 1,169 0%
Konqueror 1,128 0%
Netscape 668 0%

Top 10 referring search engines:

Search Engine Pages Percent Hits Percent
Google 27,817 86.8% 28,424 76.1%
Yahoo! 1,359 4.2% 1,393 3.7%
Windows Live 1,273 3.9% 1,291 3.4%
Google (Images) 463 1.4% 3,628 9.7%
SoSo 442 1.3% 442 1.1%
MSN Search 146 0.4% 149 0.3%
AOL 106 0.3% 108 0.2%
Google (cache) 99 0.3% 1,556 4.1%
Stumbleupon 62 0.1% 102 0.2%
Unknown 57 0.1% 63 0.1%

Top 10 search keywords:

  1. deep
  2. jack
  3. thoughts
  4. handy
  5. by
  6. vmware
  7. handey
  8. esxi
  9. esx
  10. to

Top 10 referring pages (non search engines):

Referring page Pages Hits
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/planet/v12n/ 1,221 1,226
http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php 1,137 93,529
http://vmetc.com 489 489
http://blog.scottlowe.org 408 408
http://vmetc.com/2008/12/05/free-tools-with-virtualcenter-like-f… 355 355
http://communities.vmware.com/message/390966 268 268
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/ 262 262
http://twitter.com/home 219 223
http://www.virtualization.info/2008/12/vmware-infrastructure-40-… 191 191
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/12/its-noon-on-wed.html 186 186

Top 10 referrers (non search engines):

  1. vmware.com
  2. petri.co.il
  3. vmetc.com
  4. scottlowe.org
  5. twitter.com
  6. virtualization.info
  7. vmware-land.com
  8. yellow-bricks.com
  9. twitturly.com
  10. ubuntuforums.org

Advanced Web Statistics 6.8 (build 1.910) – Created by awstats

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  1. Jack MeHoffer says:

    I don’t get the Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy reference. What am I missing?