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I’ve finally got round to analysing the last six months worth of log files for this site. I put them together with all the others, and this is what I found:

Over 738 days, I had 344,681 hits transfering 1.79 gigabytes of information. Approximately 28,343 visitors spanning 8,244 unique IP addresses. That’s an average of 12.16 hits per user, and an average of 38.41 users a day (2002 was the busier with an average of 49 users a day), with each users visiting approximately 3.44 times.

What also makes interesting reading is the list of countries from which our visitors have come (the numbers are the number of hits from each area):

• Commercial (.com) – 88808 – These could be from anywhere as .com is widely used.
• United Kingdon (.uk) – 83637
• Network (.net) – 68263 – As could these
• Canada (.ca) – 5600
• Educational (.edu) – 4251 – Nice to see the students aren’t wasting computing resources – very eductaional this site, honest!
• Australia (.au) – 3374
• Sweden (.se) – 1250
• Singapore (.sg) – 1230
• United States (.us) – 1206
• Portugal (.pt) – 1113
• Netherlands (.nl) – 1073
• Finland (.fi) – 1070
• New Zealand (.nz) – 1014
• Belgium (.be) – 987
• Non-profit Organization (.org) – 843
• Denmark (.dk) – 815
• Military (.mil) – 735 – hmmm, the american military have taken an interest.
• Germany (.de) – 576
• Italy (.it) – 572
• Norway (.no) – 530
• France (.fr) – 514
• Malta (.mt) – 431
• Brazil (.br) – 230
• Government (.gov) – 224 – Nice to see that the wheels of government aren’t being side tracked.
• Austria (.at) – 208
• Ireland (.ie) – 175
• Switzerland (.ch) – 167
• United Arab Emirates (.ae) – 161
• Spain (.es) – 157
• Mexico (.mx) – 155
• Malaysia (.my) – 127
• Japan (.jp) – 93
• Saudi Arabia (.sa) – 89
• Croatia/Hrvatska (.hr) – 79
• Cyprus (.cy) – 78
• Israel (.il) – 62
• Lithuania (.lt) – 61
• South Africa (.za) – 56
• Poland (.pl) – 54
• India (.in) – 53
• Turkey (.tr) – 46
• Hungary (.hu) – 38
• Greece (.gr) – 32
• Old ARPA-net (.arpa) – 31
• Russian Federation (.ru) – 31
• Yugoslavia (.yu) – 30
• Hong Kong (.hk) – 29
• Chile (.cl) – 26
• Estonia (.ee) – 24
• Latvia (.lv) – 23
• Trinidad and Tobago (.tt) – 22
• Slovenia (.si) – 21
• Thailand (.th) – 21
• Brunei Darussalam (.bn) – 20
• Gibraltar (.gi) – 17
• Philippines (.ph) – 15
• Iceland (.is) – 14
• Czech Republic (.cz) – 14
• Uruguay (.uy) – 13
• Zambia (.zm) – 13
• Romania (.ro) – 11
• Viet Nam (.vn) – 11
• Zimbabwe (.zw) – 10
• Tuvalu (.tv) – 8
• Luxembourg (.lu) – 8
• Jordan (.jo) – 7
• Niue (.nu) – 2
• Seychelles (.sc) – 1
• .224 – 1
• Korea, Republic of (.kr) – 1
• Faroe Islands (.fo) – 1
• Argentina (.ar) – 1

So out of around 160 countries in the world, we’ve had visitors from around about 64 of them, that’s about 40%. We’d also like to give a big up to the boys and girls at Stoke-on-Trent Council, from whose IP ranges we had approximately 508.

Browser Stats

• IE 3.x | 248 | 0.07%
• IE 4.x | 7486 | 2.17%
• Navigator 2.x | 1777 | 0.52%
• Navigator 3.x | 4759 | 1.38%
• Navigator 4.x | 102178 | 29.66%
• Lynx | 24 | 0.01%
• Other | 42041 | 12.20%
• IE 2.x | 23 | 0.01%
• IE 5.x | 178021 | 51.68%
• Navigator 5.x | 4372 | 1.27%
• Navigator 6.x | 2031 | 0.59%
• Opera | 1512 | 0.44%

OS Stats

• Windows 3.1 | 108 | 0.03%
• Windows 95 | 18198 | 5.28%
• Windows 98 | 126650 | 36.77%
• Windows NT | 71283 | 20.69%
• Windows 2000 |36817 | 10.69%
• Windows CE | 0 | 0.00%
• Macintosh | 4253 | 1.23%
• OS/2 | 26 | 0.01%
• Other | 54264 | 15.75%
• Linux |1327 | 0.39%
• WebTV | 270 | 0.08%
• IRIX | 19 | 0.01%
• SunOS | 22 | 0.01%
• Windows ME | 31235 9.07%

Of course, all these stats relating to the users are fairly inaccurate due to the use of proxy servers, and the fact that all the information is sent to our server from their browser, so if they play silly buggers with their browser, then we don’t know any different.

What is indisputable though is the fact that the most popular page was the cartoon index, and the busiest day was December 19, 2002 with 3,818 hits which is over the number of hits taken on the next busiest day which was March 26, 2001 with 1,784 hits. The busiest time of day is between 2pm and 4pm, and the busiest days of the week are Tuesdays (16.56%) and Thursdays (16.74%).

Our top five referers are:

• google.com | 1823
• robotskull.com | 788
• google.co.uk | 760
• search.msn.co.uk | 455
• search.msn.com | 402

Some of the more interesting search terms which have led to us include:

• Sheppey scum | Google | 17
• smokehammer | AOL Search | 13
• toliet signs | Yahoo | 13
• Ninja Stickmen | Google | 10
• fatmen pictures | MSN Search | 9
• Mark Makin | Google | 7
• vegetableporn | MSN Search | 6
• midget tarts | MSN Search | 6
• barbie cartoons | Google | 6
• shcool tits | Google | 5
• Michelin Ladysize | Google | 5

And it looks like we are registered on a number of search engines:

• Direct Hit | 12
• iWon | 7
• AllTheWeb | 33
• Netscape Search | 1
• AltaVista | 117
• Lycos | 209
• MSN Search | 1079
• AOL Search | 144
• GoTo.com | 6
• hotbot.lycos.com | 2
• Google | 1839
• Yahoo | 312
• Dogpile | 60
• Metacrawler (go2net Network) | 4
• Northern Light | 6
• LookSmart | 5
• Ask Jeeves | 19

Hope all that hasn’t bored you too much!