Blog Statistics

Since I don't know what else to write at the moment, I will write the statistics regarding this blog. I have been using Google Analytics since August 2006.

Statistics (August 2006 - March 2009)

Total visit : 19906 (Pretty low and this is expected since I don't write anything that can attract large audience)
Total Pageviews: 28439
New Visitors: 68.16%

Top 10 referring sites

1. blogger-templates.blogspot.com
   
2. images.google.com
   
3. Hayad
   
4. hafiz238.efx2.com
   
5. Reazal Effendy
   
6. Sarah Mohd Shukor
7. gambrine.blogspot.com
   
8. Petaling Street
   
9. Sofie Nur
   
10. Minci
    

Top 10 Keywords

1. kembara di bumi melbourne
2. e-novel malay
3. hafiz238
4. ladybug layouts
5. erti kemerdekaan
6. aurat wanita
7. ladybug layout
8. candid syndrome
9. kembara
10. kelebihan al mathurat

Top 20 weirdest keywords

1. misteri awan cerah bertukar gelap
2. klara causen
3. broken heart layouts
4. gambar mercu tanda di malaysia
5. statistik penggunaan telefon bimbit di malaysia
   
6. kompas cecair
7. perkara perkara pelik di bumi
8. "friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity" with explanation
9. hate medical students
10. 36c titis
11. agaknya bila tarikh aidil fitri
12. contoh panggilan sayang
13. di mana lalat tidur
14. ex-kisas student blog
15. excuses for being late, typical
16. kisah pelik dan benar
17. melapah manusia
18. nama website untuk cari map di google
19. rumah berhantu di england
20. tahun ni korang beraya di mana
    

Top 20 pages (in bracket, number of pageviews)

1. mnemonic for forearm muscles and bone (899)
2. archive July 2005 (758)
3. Interpreting Electrocardiogram [ECG] (757)
4. medical abbreviations (662)
5. useful links for new blogger (500)
6. archive January 2005 (495)
7. another online novel (491)
8. ladybug (363)
9. diencephalon (345)
10. ladybug red theme (279)
11. archive November 2004 (256)
12. 100 tahun meneroka sejarah (209)
13. few blogger hacks (206)
14. archive February 2005 (204)
15. how to migrate from old classic blogger layout to new blogger layout (194)
16. archive March 2007 (191)
    
17. archive August 2005 (159)
18. Google Reader shared items hack (151)
19. broken heart syndrome (136)
20. photoshop tutorial pattern 1 (135)
    

Top 10 Commentators (I only started to use Blogger commenting system on 26 May 2007. Previously I used Haloscan. The figure in the bracket represents the number of comments made on Blogger commenting system)

1. Hayad (61)
2. mosh (33) + moshimoshi (23) = 56 [mosh and moshimoshi is the same person. However, the system that I used to count is based on the username.]
3. aria ayumi (27) + diya (25) = 52
   
4. Chem (36)
5. Ummu Layth (34)
6. Sofie Nur (30)
7. arsaili (29)
8. Sarah Mohd Shukor (26)
9. minci (23)
10. farah yusri (15)
    

Analysing blog visitors

Since I'm taking a break from my study, let me show you the statistics of this blog. I'm using Google Analytics to analyse all the traffics to the blog.

Most of the traffic that comes to this blog is from search engine. Between January to April 2008, 58.45% of the blog visitors come from search engine whereas within the same period last year, only 39.35% visitors could be attributed to the search engine. I guess this blog contain more keywords that they are looking for.

Top 15 keywords [January - April 2008]
* The number in the brackets represent the number of visits.

1. e-novel malay [60]
2. kembara di bumi Melbourne [52]
3. hafiz238 [52]
4. ladybug layouts [20]
5. candid syndrome [19]
6. e-novel malay Malaysia [13]
7. aurat wanita [9]
8. kelebihan al-mathurat [9]
9. ladybug layout [9]
10. Malay e-novel [9]
11. medical abbreviation [7]
12. hafiz blog [6]
13. Kembara [6]
14. kelebihan al-mathurat [5]
15. kelebihan mathurat [5]

Top 15 pages [January - April 2008]

1. Kembara di bumi Melbourne [1284]
2. Medical abbreviations [222]
3. Diencephalon [122]
4. January 2005 [107]
5. Interpreting Electrocardiogram [91]
6. another online novel [90]
7. Ladybug (Red theme) [83]
8. broken heart syndrome [83]
9. Ladybug [72]
10. July 2005 [70]
11. How to migrate from old classic blogger template to new Blogger layout [62]
12. 100 tahun meneroka sejarah [58]
13. March 2007 [54]
14. Few Blogger hacks [52]
15. Google Reader shared item hacks [52]

The conclusion that I could gather from this statistic is that I should be writing more on medicine and blogger layout if I would like to attract more traffic from the search engine.

search engine

Sometimes, it can be interesting to see how people find out about this blog. I use Google Analytics to analyse the traffic to this site and 40% of the visitors come from search engine.

August
14.31% Direct Traffic
53.54% Referring Site
32.15% Search Engine

Top Keywords

1. kembara di bumi melbourne
2. pelajar terbaik spm mckk
3. e-novel malay
4. ladybug layout
5. hafiz238
6. allahumma anta rabbi la ilaha illa anta translation
7. e-novel malay malaysia
8. ladybug "blogger template"
9. ladybug layouts
10. css version in blogger

September
14.50% Direct Traffic
45.69% Referring Site
39.82% Search Engine

Top keywords

1. ladybug layouts
2. ladybug layout
3. e-novel malay
4. hafiz
5. hafiz238
6. kembara di bumi melbourne
7. alam baqa
8. erti kemerdekaan
9. erti merdeka
10. kelebihan al-mathurat

October
11.16% Direct Traffic
44.00% Referring Site
44.84% Search Engine

Top Keywords

1. ladybug layouts
2. dock menu
3. date header+calender icon+blogger
4. kembara di bumi melbourne
5. kerja sebagai fruit picker
6. ladybug layout
7. peperiksaan blogspot
8. raya di australia
9. raya di melbourne
10. erti kemerdekaan
    

There are several patterns that can be observed from this data.

Some of the searches were seasonal and this highlights the important of having post which is related to certain important season. In September, keywords related to independence were among the top keywords and in October, keywords related to Eidul fitri were linked to this blog. The summer holiday in Australia start in November and hence the reason of searching about fruit picker ;).

Another pattern is writing about blogspot layout/template will attract traffic at any time. I think there are many people who are looking to modify their blogspot layout. I never know that there are many people who are looking for ladybug layout. This is quite a surprise for me.

Another surprise is to see that an old blog post is coming up in one of the searches. E-novel malay is referring to this entry which was written in 2004.

If you are keen in analysing the web traffic, you will be able to learn a lot and this information will be useful in the future. By analysing which keywords land your site in the search engine, you are able to plan your writing and design an effective marketing strategy.

However, I am not planning of using this blog to get additional income. This blog will stay as a personal blog and occasionally I will write and talk about blogspot layouts/templates. Part of my hobby is to design website. At least, I will be able to put my knowledge on CSS into practice.

New interface of Google Analytics

Google Analytics has been upgraded. The new interface seems to be better than previously. However, it wil take several weeks for the old user of Google Analytics to experience the new look. At least this solves my main comment towards Analytics. Previously, the interface is too complicated for new users and not intuitive enough to entice people of using the service.


This is an excellent post describing the new Google Analytics.

Do These Five Things First In V2

tracking visitors in Google Analytics

I have another blog at efx2.com. That blog is primarily used for commenting at efx2 blogs. I have put Google Analytics code in the blog since last year and I am able to detect who is visiting the blog.

There are a lot of features in this application. I will show you how to combine several features together. First, click marketing optimization under All reports. Then click visitor segment performace and after that, please click on referring source.

Google Analytics will show you how the visitors found the website either through search engine, links from another website or direct link from the computer. The picture above shows my statistics on the blog at efx2.com.

Click on the double arrow that pointing upwards on any of the source. For example, I have clicked on the double arrow next to (direct)[(none)]. A box (I don't know the appropriate term for this one though) will appear next to the double arrow. Click on cross segment performance. Another box will appear and this will list several options for you to combine several features. If you would like to know which countries the visitors came from, click country and in my case, I will click city.

After that, a new page will reload and shows you the appropriate statistic. In my case, between 29th March 2007 and 4th April 2007, there were 12 direct visits from North Clayton, 4 visits from Melbourne, 2 from Dingley and 1 from Camberwell B).

You can also adjust the date range if you want to find out specific visitors on each day. Just click the calendar under the date range.

This post was inspired after reading this entry :)

p/s: Wrote this entry after taking a break from analysing data for my thesis ;)

keywords

It is common for people to use search engine to search for info. Most of the new visitors to this blog arrived via google and yahoo. It is interesting to see what kind of keywords they search for. For the uninitiated, I am using Google Analytics to analyse all the web traffic data. The top keyword of this week is surprisingly 'Siti Fatimah Mukhtar'. I think this refer to the post I wrote here.

There were 16 searches about her. It is strange since in the post, the only word about her name was in the news snippet I pasted from NST.

Just to let you know, the top four keywords in 2006 were 'kembara di bumi melbourne', 'tunku kurshiah college', 'saladin animation malaysia' and 'xifu algebra'. Compare this with the top four keywords in this year (up until today); 'kembara di bumi melbourne', 'xifu and the algebra', 'cerpen faisal tehrani' and 'aliya murshida fotopages'.

statistics

Google Analytics tell me that most of the blog visitors used broadband and few used dial-up. Perhaps in the future, I need to reduce the amount of images and graphics in the blog for the dial-up users.

In term of browser, most visitors used Firefox but there is still large proportion who used IE6.

One aspect of Google Analytics is that you can see cross-segment performance. For example, I would like to see which browser is frequently used according to countries. In Malaysia, more than 50% of the visitors used IE6.

In comparison to Australian visitors, most of them used Firefox. This is certainly interesting for me to ponder. What causes this discrepancy?

The last picture shows the summary of this blog :)

Google Analytics

I has been using Google Analytics for few weeks now. It is a great service and quite thorough. The most complete version of its kind.

What it is? Well, it is some sort of website tracker which collect all the statistics involved while surfing any website. It is not just useful for normal blogger user but it can also be used for larger audience such as big marketing company. I am interested to see that it is able to detect and create the pathway involved in browsing a large website (if you have one). Useful for company executive, marketing department and web developer :).

The only downside is that it is a little bit complicated at first. Hopefully they are able to improve on the interface in the future.

Google Analytic slide show