Pseudo Anonymous Hit Counter: Review of 2019
Unlike last year, there was no excitement in viewers over the past year. Increase in total numbers, but not massively so. The numbers from China were unexpected, but not that large. In the end, this should be a rather boring review. Which is how it should be, exciting is overrated and all too often dangerous.
Raw Numbers
Before I get into the numbers, worth noting a few details. First, counts are for ‘visitors’, which doesn’t directly match to ‘people’. A person may visit multiple times over the year. Second, generally only focus on the most frequent numbers, so if things don’t add up that’s why.
In 2019, my website (dannybassette.com) and it’s sub-domains (ofal and drat) had 382 visitors, who collectively viewed 806 pages. Of those 382 visitors, 299 use desktops and 63 used smartphones (46 of those smartphones being Apple iPhone’s). Of those 299 desktops, 161 were running Windows 7 and 74 were running Windows 10.
Google Chrome was the most popular browser, used for 149 visits. Mozilla Firefox had 116, and Apple Safari 49.
Of the 382 visitors, 324 were from North America, 313 being United States. China had 33. 18 countries in total visited, but apart from those two, all the rest were low numbers (most being just 1).
Of the US’s 313 visitors, 262 were from New York. New York’s 262 visitors broke down as 60 from Jamaica, 59 Avon, and 55 Perry. Honeoye Falls had 10.
510 page views of the front page (dannybassette.com) directly. 309 for 2019 content, 72 for 2018. Of those 309 views of 2019 content August (55) and September (49) articles were viewed more then most, the other months varied between a high of 28 and low of 11.
Speculations
Apart from the increase in overall counts, there wasn’t anything big in this years numbers.
That China IP’s were ~8% of total was a bit of a surprise. As was so few visitors from Honeoye Falls. Both of those likely says more about the inaccuracies in tracking locations by IP address then anything else.
As with last year, June was the low traffic month. And while it picked up at the end of summer, there wasn’t the spike like last year. Possibly readers linked to school, and thus less desire for my observations during the summer? Or people just having better things to do with their time?
Conclusions
Continued increase in traffic, so someone is reading what I write. Which is a websites function, so good job me. No obvious spikes, although China is a bit of an anomaly. We’ll see what next year brings.
