Site Traffic

Traffic on AO Website January 1-December 31, 2001, by Month


	Main Page	How to Get in Touch with AO	Events	Triess Forums	News Letter	Kristy	Member's Pages	National Resources	Local Resources	What's New	Shopping	Makeovers	Restaurant Reviews	Who We Are	Newsletter Issues
January	411	19	41	26	86		71	40	79	31	47			41	82
February	461	21	42	28	63		91	48	87	37	35			44	164
March	428	24	53	20	95		59	40	75	50	32	27		45	166
April	581	31	58	18	100	42	89	51	123	40	39	111		32	160
May	494	24	63	28	91	39	99	62	105	41	30	38	19	47	256
June	506	14	40	32	66	28	78	68	103	38	30	42	25	51	263
July	423	14	34	24	67	28	61	53	78	24	33	41	33	45	70
August	417	16	44	18	78	22	59	69	69	33	45	45	25	36	134
September	362	23	31	18	112	24	61	50	67	29	26	45	30	37	86
October	475	25	42	33	127	26	95	38	68	36	30	44	15	64	92
November	550	26	40	25	118	4	92	61	80	29	33	33	15	33	55
December	610	23	47	19	100	0	86	32	127	25	44	72	25	46	100

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
f#ainted m*uch
m*agazine f#or t#rans w$oman
t$rans*exual m&agazine
v$ictoria's s&ecret di*scount o%utlet
h#aunt a#kron o#hio
c!rossdressing u!rge r*eturns
c#rossd&resser s^wingers
c&rossd&ressing g&irlfriends
&cross&d$resser pa$ssable
fe&ma%le cr!ossdr*essers
ma#keup app#lication for c&rossdresser
cr#ossdr#essers gi#rlf*riends

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
seen so far...again gimmicked so this page doesn't draw further searches:

P#anties
G#irdles
S#hoes (most popular)
c#rossd#ress
t#ransvestite
R#oxy M#allone

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)