As I am not using any “public” statistics tools like SiteMeter, I would like to give some information about my weblog/website statistics. Both sites (didierbeck.com and didierbeck.net) are hosted by OVH and I have a full-access to my raw-logs (apache logs). To analyse them, I am using the same utility as the one for my professional job, i.e. urchin, which is definitely very powerful and extremely efficient. With my laptop for example (hp nx7000 with 1GB RAM), I can generate full reports of websites with hundreds of thousands of pageviews monthly in….minutes!! For those you use WebTrends, have a look at urchin (the license is very cheap for this kind of powerful tool, $895 for 100 websites!).

OVH had some problems in September with the filers where the logs were copied, so that I put a forecast in the following statistics for this month, as for the December, to be able to close the year. The period of analyse is March to December 2004.

For the first two December’s weeks:

• 660 pageviews daily (min: 404, max: 890)
• 317 sessions daily (min: 166, max: 407)
• 79% of the traffic is generated by my blog, 11% by my website, 7% by the robots and 3% by the Seth Godin‘s book (!), the Bootstrappers Bible, about 300 downloads in 5 days!
• So, 79% of traffic is coming from the weblog, and 54% from the atom.xml, which is my Syndicated Newsfeed. This part is increasing quite rapidly.
• Interesting also to note that the browsers and feed readers structure accessing my blog and website is changing massively. In the last two weeks, 25% of the accesses are coming from IE, 22% from Firefox/Mozilla, 23% from Newsgator (!), the rest – 30% – from a *lot* of other feed readers (Bloglines, SauceReader, etc.)

To have a comparison, I took the liberty to have a look at two weblogs I am reading very regularly, the one of Rodrigo Sepulveda and the one of Loic le Meur, who are giving their statistics openly with SiteMeter here and here (Rodrigo, Loic, if you have a problem with my comparison, let me know ;-):

Loic (period=last week)

• Pageviews daily: 543
• Number of visits daily: 362

Rodrigo (period=last week)

• Pageviews daily: 243
• Number of visits daily: 183

As usual in this field, it is just an indication, specially for the number of visits which is always defined in different ways by the different tools. The number of pages should be representative on the other side. I am wondering if SiteMeter can integrate the traffic generated by the newsfeed (atom or RSS). I don’t think so, which is quite a problem, if you know that this part is generating more than 50% of my traffic…