Unique Visits

hi dyske,

i did this project last year:
http://lab404.com/data/

which led to this fallout:
http://lab404.com/misc/obits/

also, check web-wide comparative traffic ratings (least to most visited):
3,861,449 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=dyske.com
2,345,992 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=mteww.com
903,833 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=playdamage.org
707,768 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=lab404.com
431,201 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?urlez.org
295,983 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=potatoland.org
241,314 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=rhizome.org
239.340 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=jodi.org
148,995 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=praystation.com
57,789 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=sfmoma.org
51,156 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=zefrank.com
31,075 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=k10k.net
1,066 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=homestarrunner.com
5 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=google.com

kooky.



++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dyske wrote:

Oddly, I had just written an essay about Website traffic a day before. I was
fascinated by the fact that no one seems to have a clear picture of how web
traffic is distributed along the percentile of all websites. For instance,
if you get 50 visitors a day, what percentile are you in? Is your site
above, below, or around the average?

When you hear that some sites like Instapundit.com are getting over 80,000
visitors a day, you think that your site which is getting, say, 100 visitors
a day seems to be very low in the ranks. Well, you are not. According to my
study, 100 visitors a day would place you around the top 35 percentile. So,
you wonder, when does it jump from 100 to 80,000? You can see it on my
graph. It happens around top 1 percentile. Compared to what happens once you
reach that top 1 percentile, any increase in visitors before that is
miniscule. I conclude that this is how fame works. The vest majority of us
are nobody. The difference between the top 2 percentile and the very bottom
percentile is negligible compared to the popularity of the top 1 percentile.

Here is my essay:

http://www.dyske.com/default.asp?view_idx9

Dyske

>
>also, check web-wide comparative traffic ratings (least to most visited):
>3,861,449 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=dyske.com
>2,345,992 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=mteww.com

and on our way down. ouch!
–
<twhid>
http://www.mteww.com
</twhid>

Now, I'm going to sound like I'm defending my low rank on Alexa, but the
problem with that service is that it is highly inaccurate. Here is a quote
from their own site:

" Generally, Traffic Rankings of 100,000+ should be regarded as not reliable
because the amount of data we receive is not statistically significant.
Conversely, the more traffic a site receives (the closer it gets to the
number 1 position), the more reliable its Traffic Ranking becomes."

I've checked this against the data I have access to for the sites that my
company hosts. The only one that seem to match up with the actual analysis
of the server logs is my alllooksame.com

144,917 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=alllooksame.com

Here is another site that I have:

3,043,334 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=painintheenglish.com

Compare this with DYSKE.COM

3,861,449 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=dyske.com

The latter comes out below the former, but according to FastStats Analyzer,
the average daily visitors are as follows:

PainInTheEnglish.com = 111
DYSKE.COM = 432

Total visiting users per month:
PainInTheEnglish.com = 3,337
DYSKE.COM = 12,973

These are pretty substantial differences that Alexa is not capable of
capturing.

-Dyske



—–Original Message—–
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
Curt Cloninger
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:32 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: Unique Visits

hi dyske,

i did this project last year:
http://lab404.com/data/

which led to this fallout:
http://lab404.com/misc/obits/

also, check web-wide comparative traffic ratings (least to most visited):
3,861,449 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=dyske.com
2,345,992 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=mteww.com
903,833 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=playdamage.org
707,768 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=lab404.com
431,201 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?urlez.org
295,983 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=potatoland.org
241,314 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=rhizome.org
239.340 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=jodi.org
148,995 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=praystation.com
57,789 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=sfmoma.org
51,156 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=zefrank.com
31,075 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=k10k.net
1,066 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=homestarrunner.com
5 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=google.com

kooky.