Blimey—web stats and site weirdness

[matgb]

So, my web host package for TaKtiX expires on Tuesday, so given I'm barely using it I'm backing it all up to prepare to move it all to a cheaper server.

While downloading the entire HTML content I found that the server stats programme provided by my host backs up the stats page monthly. This I knew not. Oops. So I read them through, and realise that I've been misreading them a bit. I thought they were cumulative in that programme, but they're not. Most read are the various feeds the site releases. After that are the graphics I use here on my journal. Next up? Well, this surprised me, so I dug out the old Statcounter account.

For the non-Voting parts of the site, there are about 700 visitors per month. Thing is? Half of them go to one page. Mr mapp? Your old review of the Tau Codex gets about 350 readers a month. Still. Virtually all from Google.

Shame I don't play Warhammer based stuff anymore, appears there's some decent ad revenue to be made reviewing the books if a two year old review can still get that many readers...

Comments

[shakalooloo.livejournal.com]

Hah, just as I've made the first post to my blog in months.

[matgb]

Aye, I saw that. Hopefully I can get the new server to run the full software I can't run on this one, d'you want to edit a new version of the Warlord site and get some other people on board if it does?

Much more user friendly than Blogger, and a lot easier to add new people as well.

[shakalooloo.livejournal.com]

Sure; why not?

[mapp.livejournal.com]

"Your old review of the Tau Codex gets about 350 readers a month."

Go me. A google.co.uk search for "tau empire codex" puts the article as the first mother-loving result.

[matgb]

Mixture of the way I managed to build the basic PR of the site combined with the way you structured the post, worked quite well.

Covers about 1/10th the hosting bill on its own in ad revenue. Shame that I've never got more than half the hosting bill. Having said that, reading through the White Dwarf with the new rules in, did tempt me to get back into it again...

(edit: typos, typing in t'dark...)

[shakalooloo.livejournal.com]

So, the current non-appearance of TaKtiX is due to this, yes?

I probably should see about getting myself another e-mail account somewhere...

[matgb]

I messed up, yes, renewed the hosting package but not the actual domain, which means I can't do the site update properly.

I've now renewed (I noticed this morning), but it may take a bit to process. Definitely recommend getting a gmail account—I forward all my taktix mail there anyway. When it's sorted I'll let you know.