2016 stats

This is my annual statistics post, a wee bit late and probably only of interest to myself. :-)

Just as was happening last year, some people are still using links saved from the old site as there were a number of error pages generated. Please do update your links if you've saved off any or make a note to yourself to doublecheck the new site if you get an error message.

Visitors to Crochet Cabana have come from all over the world. Here are the top 25 as presented to me by my host.

United States
Canada
Great Britain
Russian Federation
Australia
Netherlands
France
Ukraine
Germany
Spain
China
South Africa
Norway
Romania
Italy
Dominica
Sweden
India
Ireland
Poland
Brazil
Finland
Hngary
New Zealand
Bulgaria
Mexico
South Korea

The Doctor Who patterns continued to be among the most popular downloads during 2016.  To my surprise the Teardrop Afghan (in the preemie section) was downloaded the most with 1158 downloads. Janie Herrin's Drop in the Bucket pattern was downloaded a respectable 389 times. That pattern has been in #1 spot for many years and though it has dropped down a couple notches, I'm sure Janie would be so pleased her pattern is still being enjoyed. The Bulky Men's Hat which was #2 last year, dropped to #6 but still was downloaded 316 times. All patterns can be found at Crochet Cabana on this page. 

The  most popular page viewed was once again All About Hooks with 4985 views.

Stats for the entire year:
Unique Visitors   148,486
Number of visits  316,167
Pages   470,831
Hits   2,467,306
Bandwidth   72.45gb

All of the above stats change from year to year. They go down some years and up others. This year most of the stats were down except for Number of visits which went up from 285,683 in 2015 to 316,167 in 2016.

As a reminder to myself, here is what those stats represent.
Unique Visitor:
A unique visitor is a person or computer (host) that has made at least 1 hit on 1 page of the web site during the current period shown by the report. If this user makes several visits during this period, it is counted only once. Visitors are tracked by IP address, so if multiple users are accessing your site from the same IP (such as a home or office network), they will be counted as a single unique visitor.

Visits:
Number of visits made by all visitors.
Think "session" here, say a unique IP accesses a page, and then requests three other pages within an hour. All of the "pages" are included in the visit, therefore you should expect multiple pages per visit and multiple visits per unique visitor (assuming that some of the unique IPs are logged with more than an hour between requests)

Pages:
The number of "pages" viewed by visitors..

Hits:
Any files requested from the server (including files that are "Pages")

Bandwidth:
Total number of bytes for pages, images and files downloaded by web browsing.


That's it! 

Sandie