[jnibori]

I just launched a site last week and had a look at my site-stats- specifically the Referring Site report. The main one, by far, is my domain.

Does this mean people are actually typing in my domain, and manually going there? From looking at the other referrals, I believe it does, but just want to be sure.

Thanks.

[JaimeL]

What's your analytics software?

[asedt]

Without knowing the software it's hard to know, but i gues that if the stats with your domain is much bigger than the others it a possibility that they are from when users are using links within your webpage.

If so the software is only loking at the page (the Referring Site) the user was coming from befor loading one of your pages, and therefore counts when going from you page to anoter of your pages.

[jnibori]

I'll have to check on the software part. I don't know. I'm using the hosting site's "visitor-stats" link to get these numbers. Not sure if that's what you mean, as much of this is new to me.

I am aware of the differences between Successful server and Successful requests for pages, one being much higher and often giving the illusion of mare activity. The successful page request is much higher than I would have expected as I've only advertised for a couple of days on Craigslist and backpage.com (I design graphic advertisements and images to sell) I maybe ran a campaign of 60 ads total. Only the ads an backpage.com were "clickable." the ones on Craigslist had the URL totally removed, and backpage referrals are nominal.

The site was launched last Sunday. I know in reality those number are pretty small, but I was averaging about 250-300 page hits a week on another site, and that's on a good week with lots of advertising. I learned some graphics better, created a new ad and a catchier site, with a pretty cool domain name and I'm trying to determine if there's a real interest in what I'm offering- because my wallet certainly does not show it If I know people are manually entering the URL to see my site, to me that's an indication of some curiosity, rather than just click-surfing.

Can you tell from these stats if people are manually entering the URL the majority of the time for the amount of page hits?

Also, let's say I'm on the techsupport site and manually type in my url into the browser while the tech site is still loaded, does that count as a site referral? I see I have one from craigslist, and trying to figure out how. Again, nothing I've put on that site is referenced to mine in any way, other than an image of my ad, with all site referenced removed.

Thanks, and sorry for the book, but I need to get a better feel about if there's any interest. if so, I'll pretty up the site more, etc...


General Summary:

3. Program start time Jun 19, 2008 06:13
4. Time of first request Jun 13, 2008 15:04
5. Time of last request Jun 18, 2008 23:11
6. Successful server requests 6,694 Requests
7. Successful requests for pages 1,568 Requests for pages
8. Distinct files requested 33 Files
9. Distinct hosts served 71 Hosts
10. Unwanted lines in the logfile 304 Lines
11. Total data transferred 20.521 MB

Referring Site Report:

Number of requests
1. http://www.mysite.com/ 6,217
2. http://adsoncraigs.com/ 10
3. http://app4.websitetonight.com/ 9
4. http://sandiego.backpage.com/ 6
5. http://www.livingeasysoftware.com/ 5
6. http://posting.atlanta.backpage.com/ 2
7. http://mail.google.com/ 1
8. http://by110w.bay110.mail.live.com/ 1
9. http://tampa.backpage.com/ 1
10. http://atlanta.backpage.com/ 1
11. http://us.f820.mail.yahoo.com/ 1
12. http://sandiego.craigslist.org/ 1
13. http://detroit.backpage.com/ 1
14. http://losangeles.backpage.com/ 1
15. http://cleveland.backpage.com/ 1

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