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Stats don't matter. What matters is the geospatial community finding slashgeo.org useful. A little more than 9 month after launch, crossing the 1,000,000 hits mark tells us our efforts are not entirely meaningless :-) However, let's not over rejoice.. I annoyingly keep repeating to the Slashgeo Team that we have not reached the maturity we envisioned. By maturity I'm referring to the, hopefully growing, number of comments and user submittals. We must also thank many individuals within the geospatial community. Some people write great content worthed to be shared with slashgeo users. Read more below in order to get an overview of slashgeo's most meaningful stats.
Stats from the slashcode engine.
Now over 1,000,000 hits. In recent weeks, about 8000 daily hits corresponding to 1200 individual IP addresses, in addition to about 400 RSS subscribers.
Stats from Apache.
If I believe our Apache logs, we're over 4,200,000 hits including 616567 visitors. Googlebots account for a total of less than 0.5% of visits, 0.4% for msn bots. 0.76% of hits are referred by Google, 0.24% by PlanetGS with 86% coming from a direct request (probably the headlines newsletter sent by email to most of our 575 registered members). At least 21% of visitors (up to a maximum of 48%) comes from outside USA, with at least 9% from Canada.
I'll say it again, slashgeo won't host ads any time soon. We're doing this for the benifit of a communnity we love :-) Link to previous slashgeo stats shared a few months ago.
I also updated the poll. The previous poll shows most people would work for themselves or in research or education (both 31%) and nobody would work for a big geospatial corporation or a huge corporation.
Now over 1,000,000 hits. In recent weeks, about 8000 daily hits corresponding to 1200 individual IP addresses, in addition to about 400 RSS subscribers.
Stats from Apache.
If I believe our Apache logs, we're over 4,200,000 hits including 616567 visitors. Googlebots account for a total of less than 0.5% of visits, 0.4% for msn bots. 0.76% of hits are referred by Google, 0.24% by PlanetGS with 86% coming from a direct request (probably the headlines newsletter sent by email to most of our 575 registered members). At least 21% of visitors (up to a maximum of 48%) comes from outside USA, with at least 9% from Canada.
I'll say it again, slashgeo won't host ads any time soon. We're doing this for the benifit of a communnity we love :-) Link to previous slashgeo stats shared a few months ago.
I also updated the poll. The previous poll shows most people would work for themselves or in research or education (both 31%) and nobody would work for a big geospatial corporation or a huge corporation.
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If stats don't matter
(Score:3, Insightful)Re:If stats don't matter
(Score:3)( http://alexandreleroux.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday March 17, @05:07PM )
Stats do matter a little... if our readership and participation by the community wasn't going up, I think I (and probably the rest of our small team) would have thrown the towel. Having more and more people using the slashgeo "tool", it means to me that it's worthed to pay for hosting and taking the time, along with other slashgeo "authors", to select the more pertinent (as much as possible) stories related to the geospatial industry.
Evenmore, stats tells us who's reading and participating (e.g. where in the world) and how they like to access to aggregated content (e.g. newsletter, rss, url).
Everyone is welcomed to participate and we're listening to any improvements anyone might suggest. We'll continue to do our best, even if our best might not seem enough in some occasions.
Stats from Alexa?
(Score:2)( http://alexandreleroux.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday March 17, @05:07PM )
Re:Stats from Alexa?
(Score:3, Informative)httpd log traffic analysis is always the most accurate you can get.