First Month of Google Analytics

I’ve always had access to stats for my blog since its inception on Halloween 2004.  But until a month ago I had not had Google Analytics.  But I now have had it for a full 30 days.  Here are some of the numbers for January 22nd through February 20th:

• 20,782 visits
• 33,040 page views
• 9,592 absolute unique visitors

More visitors use the Firefox browser than Internet Explorer.

Here are a few more bits of info:

• 97% of the visits were from the United States.  Canada was 2nd with the UK 3rd.
• 68% of the visits came from the state of Missouri. Rounding out the top 10 states were Illinois, California, New York, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Minnesota, the District of Columbia and Colorado.  I had visits from all 50 states.
• The top 10 cities in Missouri were St. Louis (duh), St. Ann, Maryland Heights, Fenton, Ballwin, Lake St. Louis, Columbia, Hazelwood, Arnold, and Jefferson City.
• 84.36% were from Windows with 14.50% from Macintosh  (smart choice).  Linux was 3rd with the iPhone 4th, each with less than 1%
• Of the Windows visits, 79.55% were from XP with only 17.72% from Vista.  Just under 2% were from Windows 2000.
• The most common connection was Charter Communications
• 22% of visits came from Google vs 3% from Yahoo and fewer than 1% from MSN.
• The top 3 blogs referring people to my site are Ecology of Absence, STL Rising and STL Dotage.  Thank you gentlemen!
• More than half the traffic came directly to the site.
• 971 page titles were viewed in the period.

I’m a geek, I just love this stuff.   It will be interesting to see the numbers after I have 6-12 months of stats.  Thank you for reading!