Have you ever wondered how busy, in terms of traffic, some of the forums you visit are? I have.

I've always tried to do things differently on the sites I've owned. In that vein, I am going to share some of my site statistics with the membership at ZHP Mafia.

I'll update it once a week right here in this thread.

Sessions graph

This report shows the trend of recent activity on your website in terms of Visitor Sessions over time.

Calculation Methodology

A 'Session' is defined as a series of clicks on your site by an individual visitor during a specific period of time. A Session is initiated when the visitor arrives at your site, and it ends when the browser is closed or there is a period of inactivity.

The average session time is 10 minutes and 56 seconds.




Pageviews Graph

This report shows the trend of recent activity on your website in terms of Pageviews over time.

Calculation Methodology

A 'Pageview' is defined as a request from a visitor's browser for a displayable web page, generally an HTML file. Urchin's configuration controls which file extensions are treated as Pageviews. In general, images and other embedded content, such as style sheets and javascript, are not considered to be Pageviews.




Hits Graph

This report shows the trend of recent activity on your website in terms of successful Hits over time.

Calculation Methodology

A 'Hit' is simply a successful request to your web server from a visitor's browser for any type of file, whether an image, HTML page, an MP3 file, or any other type. A single web page can cause many Hits -- one for each image included on the page, etc.




You can see that the peak usage on the site was during the early part of November. That's not surprising. That's when this site was opened up to general members. Site traffic has been tapering downward since then. Site traffic has also inched downward because I've been able to screen out some of the spam-bot traffic.

Eventually, as the site becomes more popular, the traffic metrics will start moving higher -- and eventually surpass the peaks that we experienced in early November.

To this point, I am quite pleased with the activity at ZHP Mafia.