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Submitted by Blog - Henriette on 27 September, 2007 - 10:00
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Last I did this was about a year ago.

The numbers have changed quite a bit:

Referers (= people coming from these search engines, in single hits, on all of my site) over the last few months:

2007 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 1-16
Google 99 457 99 532 122 518 122 609 133 995 111 316 81 515 80 974 47 366
Google images 30 959 39 914 58 400 73 160 79 421 60 874 31 697 32 251 22 983
Yahoo search 6 913 6 010 7 224 8 234 8 571 8 166 8 804 9 727 9 360
MSN + livesearch 1 043 978 1 034 891 1 020 1 075 1 014 1 045 670

That's plain google search, including all the various country codes. Google translation, google cache etc. have their own numbers in my stats tracking, too small to include here.

And that's plain yahoo search - yahoo directory, yahoo mail, yahoo answers and so on are excluded.

Contrast this to various IP address ranges (with corresponding user agents) (= search engine bots that scrape my pages for their various indexes):

2007 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 1-16
Google inc: googlebot 30 338 19 173 22 406 25 132 26 574 23 520 50 941 37 754 30 995
Yahoo inc: Slurp 87 988 94 409 133 515 145 998 155 328 302 701 338 792 231 417 102 147
Microsoft.com: msnbot 42 937 59 177 53 611 72 375 44 497 54 939 40 788 43 209 21 980

And the ratios of referers to bots (= actual live people visiting my site, per bot visit) are:

2007 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 1-16
Google (excl. google images) 3.28 5.19 5.46 4.88 5.04 4.73 1.60 2.14 1.53
Yahoo 0.079 0.064 0.054 0.056 0.055 0.027 0.026 0.042 0.091
MS 0.024 0.017 0.019 0.012 0.023 0.020 0.025 0.024 0.030

So, MSN's spidering efficiency is abysmal, but really, yahoo's 300000+ spider hits in June and July should have given quite a bit more than 8+k visits from people.

Boost your algorithms, kids. Google shows that it's doable, you should be able to do the same.

Oh, and my stats in total? Lemmesee now:

Month Hits Files Cached Pageviews Sessions KB sent
Sep 1-16, 2007 914344 902235 5675 313130 139240 6727518
August 2007 1236756 1180722 14982 604338 270266 7942760
July 2007 1264261 1169661 38954 755393 315566 6970654
June 2007 1431391 1349900 32603 783084 344872 8831145
May 2007 1498265 1380362 43685 690086 326102 10343357
April 2007 1492194 1313807 37624 670956 297528 10029849
March 2007 1308651 1204573 43608 615729 281711 8440162
February 2007 1231824 1123427 31058 566745 228568 7795176
January 2007 1079354 978700 31566 482078 223505 6610808
December 2006 950618 866292 23892 478623 222977 8537542
November 2006 1089027 997852 26421 534244 234648 7479792
October 2006 1063488 949317 28356 485327 228578 7387559
Total 14560173 13416848 358424 6979733 3113561 97096320
Average 1213347 1118070 29868 581644 259463 8091360

Hits includes all sorts of things. Files is pages + images + zipfiles etc. Pageviews includes .html and .htm files only. Sessions is the number of visitors. Those stats include bots.

Comments

Submitted by Bourouba (not verified) on 6 October, 2007 - 21:22.

Hey You're a very rich herbalist! According to Internet value business researchers, a website is worth the amount of unique visitors per month multiplied by $38. Your site is probably worth over 8 millions dollars US. Congratulations!

Submitted by Henriette on 7 October, 2007 - 13:16.

Oooh. Let's pop some champagne!