Web Site Statistics

It's been a while since I looked at the stats for brianunderhill.com, let alone posted any of the info here. Kind of surprising the amount of traffic flowing these days, considering I don't have any hot book projects in the works or any terribly recent (or imminent) convention appearances.

Highlights for May 2004 (as of this morning)

Number of hits: 17,942

Number of visitors: 5,444

Number of repeat visitors: 1,769

Bandwidth transfer: 335.97 MB

Visiting continents: North America (49%), Europe (35%), Asia (6%), South America (6%), Oceania (3%), Africa (1%)

Visiting countries: (This list is nowhere near complete. I had visitors from all over the world, but am just listing the top few, plus some interesting or obscure ones toward the bottom). USA (1,633 visitors), Germany (318), Canada (219), Netherlands (150), Uruguay (115), United Kingdom (94), Brazil (75), Australia (73), Austria (58), Italy (58), Hong Kong (54), China (29), Mexico (20), North Korea (12), Iran (2), Netherlands Antilles (1), Kuwait (1), Zimbabwe (1)

Top visiting states: Virginia (567 visitors - I'm guessing this is a fluke due to a regular visitor using non-cookies and a different IP address during visits; can't imagine I have that many visitors from Virginia), California (265), Washington (115), Massachusettes (103), New York (70), Texas (69), New Jersey (59), Minnesota (47)...

Interesting stuff. Traffic has steadily increased over the past year, which kind of surprises me. I would have assumed that with my shift from full-time writer to full-time student, I might have lost some regulars, but apparently my school life is as interesting as my writing. (I'm not really sure what to think about that). :)

Finally, did you look at the clock when you started reading? The average reader spends 2 minutes, 9 seconds on the blog page. How'd you compare?