CLOSED: [2020-12-31 Thu 15:52] SCHEDULED: <2020-12-31 Thu> :PROPERTIES: :CREATED: [2020-12-27 Sun 16:27] :ID: 2020-12-31-statistics-2020 :END: :LOGBOOK: - State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2020-12-31 Thu 15:52] - State "STARTED" from "DONE" [2020-12-31 Thu 15:52] :END: Here is some insight in the 2020 [[http://www.webalizer.net][webalizer]] statistics of my blog. *** General Statistics #+CAPTION: Usage summary of 2020 #+ATTR_HTML: :align center :width 512 :linked-image-width none [[tsfile:2020-12-31 karl-voit.at - usage summary 2020 -- publicvoit.png][2020-12-31 karl-voit.at - usage summary 2020 -- publicvoit.png]] In 2020 this blog got 635,000 total visits, 5.4 million(!) hits, 3.7 million transferred files, 2.2 million pages, and 175GB of traffic. The usual monthly visits peaked around 50,000 visits and 450,000 hits per month. I guess this is very good for a personal blog page with focus [[https://Karl-Voit.at/tags/][on specific topics]] that does not get updates frequently. See the next section for external views and numbers. *** Slashdot-Effects This year, there was one notable situation in late October where - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=karl-voit.at][once again]] - I got [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdotted][slashdotted]] by [[https://news.ycombinator.com/][Hackernews]] [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934569][featuring my article]] on [[id:2020-06-18-avoid-web-forums][avoiding web-forums like reddit or hackernews]]. ;-) It even resulted in a short-term unavailability of my blog which [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934569][some comments]] took as an argument against the main point of my article and others as an example for it. [[https://tinyurl.com/y8zs75sq][My copy on web.archive.org]] was up and running all the time. There were no notable downtimes during the rest of the year thanks to probably one of the best admins there are. *** Business as Usual Except the events in late October with a small effect on early November, the other months were business as usual. Here are some examples from November: #+CAPTION: Daily usage of November 2020 #+ATTR_HTML: :align center :width 512 :linked-image-width none [[tsfile:2020-11-30 karl-voit.at - daily_usage_202011 -- publicvoit.png][2020-11-30 karl-voit.at - daily_usage_202011 -- publicvoit.png]] #+CAPTION: Hourly usage of November 2020 #+ATTR_HTML: :align center :width 512 :linked-image-width none [[tsfile:2020-11-30 karl-voit.at - hourly_usage_202011 -- publicvoit.png][2020-11-30 karl-voit.at - hourly_usage_202011 -- publicvoit.png]] *** Subjective Analysis of the Most Popular Articles Sadly, webalizer does not generate yearly access statistics for pages. From taking a look at the most recent months, most of the top-20 articles (sorted by popularity) also do reflect my personal "proudness-level", which is very good sign: - [[id:2020-06-18-avoid-web-forums][The already mentioned article on moving away from web-forums]] - [[id:2017-09-23-orgmode-as-markup-only][My still very popular article on the Org mode syntax as one of the most reasonable markup languages]] - [[id:2019-10-18-mediathekview][My German article on how to download TV videos from our national broadcast company]] got much more attention because of the Covid situation - [[id:2019-11-26-Tagging-Files-With-Windows-10][My analysis of the built-in tagging feature of Windows 10]] (TL;DR: Don't!) - [[id:2016-02-07-accessing-home-ssh-via-tor][The article from 2016 that explains how to use TOR as a way to access your LAN from anywhere]] - [[id:2020-06-14-Zettelkasten-concerns][My provocative article on concerns related to the Zettelkasten method]] - [[id:2017-06-25-twitter-archive][A 2017 article on how to deal with Twitter archive download issues]] - [[id:2014-05-09-managing-digital-photographs][Managing digital files]] - one of my most important articles - [[id:2020-01-25-avoid-complex-folder-hierarchies][Avoid complex folder hierarchies]] - [[id:2020-01-20-start-using-orgmode][Start using Org mode]] - [[id:2019-09-25-categories-versus-tags][Org categories versus tags]] *** External Ranks and Site Value There are some web services that try to come up with absolute numbers related to what a web-site is worth. Out of curiosity, I tried a few of them. Here are my current figures: - https://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/karl-voit.at/ - $8,346 - Worth Of Web Rank (a score to compare a website with the best websites in the world): 61% - Estimated revenue per day: $27 - Estimated revenue per month: $810 - Estimated revenue per year: $9,720 - Estimated visits per day: 1,843 - Estimated pageviews per day: 9,072 - Estimated visits per month: 55,290 - Estimated pageviews per month: 272,160 - Estimated visits per year: 663,480 - annotation: around 634,000 is the exact number - Estimated pageviews per year: 3,265,920 - Alexa Global Rank for the last 3 months: 776,172 - Alexa Rank is a classification that ranks websites globally according to their traffic estimate. The website with the highest traffic has a rank of "1" whereas the websites with the lowest traffic have a rank around "30M" and more ("more" means you will not have an Alexa Rank because they do not keep a rank for the websites with negligible traffic). - https://www.siteprice.org/website-worth/karl-voit.at - no result within ten and five minutes for two attempts - https://www.siteworthtraffic.com/report/karl-voit.at - 4 years ago: - We estimate the website value of karl-voit.at is currently at $ 160 USD and reaches roughly 220 unique users each day that generate 222 daily pageviews with a daily revenue (from advertisements, i.e Google AdSense) of $ 0 USD approximately. According to Alexa (the Web Information Company) the Global Traffic Rank is 5,161,662. - Today's update: - We estimate the website value of karl-voit.at is currently at $ 1,101 USD and reaches roughly 1,508 unique users each day that generate 1,509 daily pageviews with a daily revenue (from advertisements, i.e Google AdSense) of $ 2 USD approximately. According to Alexa (the Web Information Company) the Global Traffic Rank is 776,172 ([[https://www.siteworthtraffic.com/report/karl-voit.at#alexa-graphs][view Alexa traffic graphs]]). - Monthly estimations - Unique Visitors: 45,240 - Revenue (From Ads): $ 45 USD - Unique Pageviews: 45,270 - Yearly estimations - Unique Visitors: 550,420 - Revenue (From Ads): $ 550 USD - Unique Pageviews: 550,785 - http://www.webuka.com/files/apps/worth/websiteworth.php - Visitors daily: 172 - Website worth: 2,577 USD - Average monthly income from advertising: 103 USD Don't worry: I don't plan to take money from advertisers. Let's see how publicvoit develops in 2021.