page loads/visits = ?

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:53 pm

curious about the average number of pages each visitor reads? sure, some may read just one and another may read 20 or another the entire archive and every other page on your site... but what's the average?

i figure the monthly pages divided by the monthly visits gives you the average page load...

last month for loxie and zoot it was 4.526 pages per visitor. currently it's 5.025 - so even though the number of visitors are down (cos i'm not updating this month) those that do drop in are reading more of the comics... (i'm a stats freak, what more can i say?)

anyone else care to share their page load average for last month?

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:26 pm

Sounds like your regular readers know you've stopped updating and you're getting some new readers going through your archives.

For the last few months. . .
July = 4.025
June = 3.91
May = 3.90
April = 3.30
March = 3.08
February = 3.77
January = 3.47

Oddly, March marked the biggest visits spike in the last year but the least number of page views in comparison. This could mean that I've scared off more people in march than I have in any other month. 8)

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:38 pm

Last three months:

July (so far) - 4.14
June - 4.41
May - 4.91

Before that I was using iframes, so the stats are not accurate.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:44 pm

*takes his calculatron

...sorry, wrong pocket.

So you say pages/visits?

mcDuffies:

This month: 2.76
Jun: 4.61
May: 3.43
April: 4.4
March: 2.9
Ferbuarby: 15.7 but this is the month stats were reseted so it might be inacurate.

Spacejams:

This month: 5.1
Last: 8.38
May: 1

Hntrac:
This: 6.52
Last: 6.34
Ple last: 6.25
etc...

Now if I was to assume that every month at least one person discovers a comic and reads a part of archives, that makes awfully lot of daily visitors. Or those who just check the site, say "meh" and go on.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:42 pm

Pages divided by visits...

*kick starts brain*

Ah, here we go:

This month so far: 4.23 (17 visits)
June: 3.75 (24 visits)
May: 3.00 (19 visits)
April 4.88 (9 visits)
March: 1.50 (4 visits)
February: 1.00 (4 visits)
January: 2.50 (6 visits)

Note my visits average more than doubled in April, when I actually started promoting the comic (through the Webcomic about 25 thread, guest strippin', and the newsbox). In fact, it was the very last week in April when this happened. I've yet to install Extreme Tracker like Melody recommended (so I'm a lazy git, what?), so I've no idea how many people are reading the comic right now.

RLC Davidson · Post by **RLC Davidson** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:16 pm

Last five months:

This month: 1.94
June: 1.72
May: 2.86
April: 2.47
March (about 10 days therein): 3.32

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:33 pm

Mine's 2.21. Of course, the archives for Ascent and Mnemesis are on graphicsmash.com, so my stats don't count any of those pageviews.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:14 am

School Spirit's only been on Keenspace since June 12, but here's the stats so far...

June: 727/138 = 5.27
July (so far): 174/101 = 1.72

I guess that means now that all of our previous cartoons are online here (we were uploading one a day until we caught up with our last site, and are now updating twice weekly again) we've picked up a few regular viewers who are popping in and reading the latest then buggering off again.

But that's cool.

Interestingly, for the months of April and May I get an average page view of 1 for each month.

Impressive, no? Considering the site wasn't active until June...

Soap Soaperson · Post by **Soap Soaperson** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:25 am

Visits

APRIL - 8855
MAY - 15136 (Thank you, Online Comics day!)
JUNE - 18811

Pageviews

APRIL - 26336
MAY - 59556
JUNE - 77317

My stats are down this month. *TEAR* Every month, no matter what, my stats have progressed, even if by a small margin. This month, alas, I don't think they will!

Van Douchebag · Post by **Van Douchebag** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:55 am

Visits:
April: 360
May: 6083
June: 12590
July thus far: 7655 (Lol, it's more than the first two monthes combined)

Pages:
April: 1249
May: 26473
June: 53658
July thus far: 40537

April: 3.469
May: 4.352
June: 4.262
July thus far: 5.295

My readership is exponentially rising, in any case.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:36 am

for june, that would be 1.51
I'm happy considering I have not updated since early may.

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:20 am

Jul-04: 4.187324734
Jun-04: 4.031444099
May-04: 4.256273764
Apr-04: 5.172588832

And I'm not divulging my visits or page stats for fear of pointing and laughing.

JPSloan · Post by **JPSloan** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:50 am

Feb=3.0
Mar=2.0
Apr=3.0
May=4.1
Jun=5.4
Jul=6.5 so far

War · Post by **War** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:48 am

Curse my low visit to page ratio. Partly owing to the fact I've had my readers for quite a while, last months ratio was about 3.2 pages per visit, month before was the same, and the month before that. Guess what this months ratio is?
3.2 to 1

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Zuri · Post by **Zuri** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:04 am

hmm.. going by that equasion my stats would be -

July - 5.05
June - 4.38
May - 5.09
April - 4.31
March - 4.11
Feb - 4.26

Interesting...

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:16 am

Feb 3.8
Mar 2.3
Apr 2.0
May 3.61
Jun 2.76
Jul 2.74

It... makes no sence whatsoever!

Asarea · Post by **Asarea** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:35 pm

Visits

April - 1249
May - 3849
June - 8165
July (so far) - 6546

Pageviews

April - 3304
May - 10671
June - 28298
July (so far) - 23528

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:56 pm

nice to see there are a few other stats junkies out there!

like war points out - for comics that have been established longer and have established readers the tendency is for them to pop in and read the latest update then bugger off.
although presumably, the more pages you have the more new readers can read! it's good to see HNTRAC has a farilt high ratio, means people arrive and really have a look around.

magellan has only been around a few months:
may: 2.779
june: 2.036
jul: 1.957
(so it's dropping even though the number of visits and pages has increased!)

other than for van douchebag (who's obvioulsy having a big month) do people find july is a slow month anyway - i'd imagine most of it would have to do with the northern hemisphere being in summer-time holidays mode. i've found that in the past...

and completely unrelated... loxie & zoot is #13 on page 2 and magellan is #13 on page 8... this sound ominous!

Van Douchebag · Post by **Van Douchebag** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 2:54 pm

xmung wrote: other than for van douchebag (who's obvioulsy having a big month) do people find july is a slow month anyway - i'd imagine most of it would have to do with the northern hemisphere being in summer-time holidays mode. i've found that in the past...

I'm a threat to society - I've mastered the art of whoring.
That's the funny thing about webcomics - it doesn't matter if your content is that good or not - if you can get people reading then you're in buisiness.

Just for fun, how many referrers do people have?

I have 261 so far in July.

War · Post by **War** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:03 pm

743 referers so far.
I typically clock in at 800-900.