For the first time in a while, thought I’d update the masses on what’s been hap­pen­ing with the traf­fic sit­u­a­tion in this part of the world recently.

On the six­teenth of this month, I launched a new pho­tog­ra­phy sec­tion on this web­site. Clearly, this has poten­tial to do crazy things with band­width usage, and, to an extent, it did.

Raw num­bers. The month before last (Sep­tem­ber), I used 173.25MB of band­width. Whilst Octo­ber may be one day longer, that alone doesn’t account for the dif­fer­ence in band­width usage: I used 327.00 MB this month, up 153.75MB from the pre­vi­ous month — nearly dou­bling trans­fers. Mean­while, the total num­ber of pages served fell, from 21,831 to 19,731 — this isn’t indica­tive of a fall in vis­its, how­ever, with an increase from 459 to 583 unique vis­i­tors in this same period. Speak­ing of hits (which I put lit­tle weight on), there was a slight increase from 32740 to 36006.

Whilst I don’t have reli­able browser sta­tis­tics for both Sep­tem­ber and Octo­ber, there appears to be lit­tle change over­all — both Fire­fox and Inter­net Explorer demon­strate increases between the two months, how­ever the stats pack­age wasn’t prop­erly con­fig­ured to detect Fire­fox as Fire­fox for most of Sep­tem­ber, so those num­bers are far from reliable.

Over­all Win­dows traf­fic has increased around 10%, which basi­cally means I’m vis­it­ing this web­site less (or, more to the point, that oth­ers are vis­it­ing it more): to the best of my knowl­edge, none of “the reg­u­lars” run Linux on the desktop.

Search engine refer­rals are up from 37 hits from Google in Sep­tem­ber to a (com­par­a­tively) enor­mous 201 hits in Octo­ber over the same period. Right up there are key­words such as “Skype” and “Freetel” — especially Free­tel. That one seems to have attracted some inter­est, if not in posted com­ments, then in per­sonal email/contact form communications.

Since switch­ing this web­site over to Word­Press in early September/late August, I’ve increased the num­ber of monthly vis­its six fold (approx­i­mately), and my band­width usage by about four. There you have it: Word­Press increases your vis­i­tors! Hehe­hehe. It’s conclusive…

Oh, and who­ever is con­tin­u­ing to visit this web­site by the old sc.dalegroup.net or streetcomputing.tk addresses (which I shall NOT link), please wake up and start using my domain name, http://www.joahua.com/. Thankyou. Refer­rals from an exter­nal page which is my own are start­ing to irri­tate me.

In the first sev­en­teen hours of this month, I’ve attracted 8 hits from search engines so far: yes, Free­tel was at least one of the search terms.

Tags: Google, Internet Explorer, Linux, personal email/contact form communications, Search engine, Search engine referrals, search engines, search terms, Windows