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Traffic on AO Website January 1-December 31, 2001, by Month
Looking at the traffic on this website gives us an idea of what people are interested in. The sections tabulated above represent the most heavily frequented pages. The column at the far right refers to total hits for individual newsletters of the month specified by the row as of January 2, 2002 and not hits in a particular month. One of the extras that yahoo provides is the most frequent question addressed to search engines that led to accessing a certain page. Some of the queries were amusing. For example people searching for 'teen makeovers' were led to the page on Makeovers and Coaching. People searching for restaurant reviews of Columbus were led to the restaurant review page, where a review of "Out on Main" in Columbus is featured. One shudders to think of how the surprised visitors might have reacted. Here are some updated search terms showing up now: I've gimmicked the words so this page won't show up on search engines c*rossdressing in c*artoons t#elevision Telling members of AO's traffic from visitor's traffic is an interesting challenge. The message from Kristy presumably has been seen by most AO members, so the traffic in that column represents a check on hits in the Member's pages column. Since I moved Kristy's thankyou letter to the Member's thought section its been getting far fewer hits. What is clear is that the Newsletter, the Collected personal stories about our members and local resources are valued by visitors to our site. .For those of you who are mathematically fussy, no the numbers don't add up. They aren't supposed to. In December 2001 I added Picosearch capability to the front page, allowing
visitors to search our web site for specific terms. Picosearch also lets
us track what people are looking for in our site. Here's what we've P#anties I have to say I'm puzzled by these searches. Why anyone would look to find reference to Ms. M#allone on the AO website escapes me. For that matter why anyone would think that using the terms starting with "c" and "t" would reveal anything informative on a website about "c" and "t" and just about every article uses those terms also escapes me. By the way, just in case anyone's getting paranoid about this data tracking, nothing about any individual's choice of web pages, or search terms used either to find web pages or to search within the site is available to me. Diane S. Frank Webmistress (send your comments to dsfrank@hotmail.com) |