David Fiske Affiliate Marketing & Web Development

I have a couple of graphs I would like to share. Okay, not very exciting but bear with me!

Stats By Hour (Dec 06)



Stats By Day (Dec 06)


 
The first graph shows the amount of traffic per hour. The blue line is today and the green line represents the trend over the past month. The red cross represents the time right now (in case you were wondering).

I would like to know which 3 visitors were surfing at midnight!

The purpose of this graph is to know when to make changes to the site. If I want to make changes that disrupt the service, between 0100hrs and 0800hrs is good. If I want to make an announcement, it is best to make it between 1200hrs and 2300hrs.

The second graph then plots a daily trend grouped by day. From this, we can see that Tuesday is by far the most popular day. Below is a graph from another of my sites and shows more of a cyclical seasonal trend:



I know that Sunday Saturday is the best day for major changes on this particular website (Sunday used to be the best day!).

What else do the stats show?

Firefox is used by 25% of my visitors so far. Plus 87.5% of visitors use Microsoft Windows XP. I am not exactly sure why that benefits me but the web browser stat does as I know which browser to design towards.

MSN has yet to send over traffic so I have just registered my site with it (add your site to MSN Search).

The most interesting fact I have discovered is that the search engines are having problems with my product comparison feature. I need to create some URLs so it can spider the search properly. I shall work on that and report back.