I just took a quick look at my website visitor statistics through my host’s control panel. To my surprise last month alone I had over two thousand visits, by just under one thousand unique visitors… and that’s just the resolvable IP addresses (approximately one third of all traffic). How phenomenal. Not by a lot of other people’s standards I guess, though for a small website like mine I would never have thought I’d have that many people stopping in.
I purposefully don’t put a hit counter on my actual website, as I had one when I first started out but after a while I felt that it was a bit vain to be caring too much about how many people visit. In any case, I feel a lot more comfortable writing when I think of those viewing, whatever you call this, as just being those who leave comments. After all, if what I am writing doesn’t prompt 99 percent of those people who visit to leave some feedback, it’s almost as if they were never here at all. Come to think of it, if 99 percent of those who visit here aren’t commenting, what does that say about my website???
Call me a geek, but the best thing of note in all of this is that 14.9% of my visitors use Linux. How cool is that? What’s even better is that of those who visit my site, more people use Linux than any version of Windows except XP. Rock on 
Listen to your wife. (Always, but especially in regards to the comment above)
I’ve just installed an IP Tracker, it’s rather interesting.
RYC: Oh, it would be you who asked me the million dollar question! Gah!
Posted by Rebecca on April 13th, 2005 at 12:42 amYup, I agree with what the women said.. I agree silently 99% of the time so that they don’t expect the 1% when I actually inject an independant opinion… *grin*
It’s amazing how much traffic actually visits weblogs, between spiders, and google searches and blog directories – not to mention services like blog explosion. It’s unfortunate there isn’t a sure fire way of getting an opinion, an expression of support, like a rating, out of every visitor. I know alot of entries don’t warrant comments, yet many I still like and enjoy.
Nice 
How many of the hits are search engines, though? Roughly 50% of the nearly 2000 hits on my site are search engines 
One of my clients sites gets indexed by yahoo constantly – get about 6-10 hits a day from different google bots.
Posted by Tom on April 13th, 2005 at 4:07 pmOf the 31587 hits on eSinner.com in March, only 3668 of those page hits were from search engines. This 30k plus page hits figure doesn’t include the 15917 hits I received from unknown sources whose IP addresses were not resolvable and hence weren’t used as meaningful data.
So to answer your question, the most generous of figures indicates that at most only 11% of my site traffic is contributed by search engines, while it’s more likely to be closer to 7% of my total traffic when all the data is analysed.
Posted by Josh on April 13th, 2005 at 4:57 pmIf 99% of people don’t comment, could it have nothing to do with how good/bad your website is, and more to do with people being lazy and not bothering. I know that when I read most of your posts, I enjoy them and agree with them and leave it at that. Mainly because I have hardly any time anymore. I don’t think you can read into the stats anythin to say thet you mustn’t be a good writer or whatever. If it counts, I thnk you’re an excellent writer mate.
Posted by Dan B on April 14th, 2005 at 12:17 amDefinitely what Dan said. It’s mainly sheer laziness. I know a few people who read my site, and not one of them have commented. There seem to be plenty of lurkers out there in blog world. 
Some people are lurkers.
Posted by Melly on April 12th, 2005 at 11:33 pmSome people are shy.
Some people don’t have fingers and can’t type. Some people may have found your site searching for something via Google, but it wasn’t what they were looking for.
Some people don’t know good shit when they read it!