A look at referral report statistics

By Alvin J. Alexander, devdaily.com

I think the web sites statistics from my other web site, One Man's Alaska, are interesting. I figure the stats from this site might be skewed because most of what I write about is Unix, Java, Mac stuff (and general programming), so I expect Firefox users and Google search users to be more prevalent. But I was surprised to see how much Google dominates the referral report for the One Man's Alaska site:

Site URLNumber of requests
1.http://onemansalaska.com/5,836
2.http://www.google.com/473
3.http://www.onemansalaska.com/193
4.http://www.bloglines.com/34
5.http://www.devdaily.com/25
6.http://search.msn.com/15
7.http://aolsearch.aol.com/13
8.http://www.whois.sc/12
9.http://66.102.9.104/11
10.http://64.233.183.104/11
11.http://www.google.ca/9
12.http://www.google.co.uk/6
13.http://www.google.de/6
14.http://www.google.com.ua/5
15.http://search.comcast.net/5
16.http://search.yahoo.com/4
17.http://www.google.it/4
18.http://devdaily.com/4
19.http://search.myway.com/3
20.http://www.google.fr/3
21.http://www.wholewheatradio.org/3
22.http://www.google.es/3
23.http://blogsearch.google.com/2
24.http://www.google.hu/2
25.http://64.233.167.104/2
26.http://search.live.com/2
27.http://www.dogpile.com/2
28.http://www.google.fi/1
29.http://www.charter.net/1
30.http://www.google.co.in/1
 [not listed: 17]17

Google (google.com) dominates the referral results with 193 requests, and Bloglines is next with 34. MSN, AOL, and Yahoo are all pretty far down the list. In fact, it's a little better for Google than that: add up all of google's other sites (.ca, .uk, .de, etc.) and treat them as one site, and they combine to be higher than Bloglines. That's just amazing.

(I just ran a traceroute on the referrers that show only IP addresses, and those are Google IP addresses as well. Wow again.)


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