Real Web Site Statistics – Countries – Your Visitors Came From Where?

Site stats of the nationality of visitors to my website for January 2009

These statistics are from one of my web sites, a technical site giving factual information for students, engineers, industry and the like. Visitors each month are from over 100 countries and the Acorn demographics show the majority of visitors are in the A, AB groups.

The site showed over 480,000 page views in January and a million plus hits, though hits really mean nothing. Each page contains many items and each item is counted as a hit. You can see that in the tables below – there are far more hits for each country than there are page views.

Web site stats are full of detail and can supply the owner with a lot of information on how the visitor is using your web site.

When the site designer knows such information as the type of operating system used, the type of web browser, the resolution of their monitor and how long they stay viewing each page, etc., the web designer can tune his site to meet their needs. However, until your web site is popular it is hard to gain sufficient data to make a decision. Hence this submission of my data to help others with their design.

It is very encouraging to see how the Internet is truly a world communication medium and although language can be a problem this is assisted by translation sites such as Google and BabelFish where the contents of a web page can be translated into many languages. It is important, therefore, that body text is used extensively as obviously text in a graphic cannot be translated.

Other articles in this series are stats for Operating Systems and for Browsers and top Search Engines used by visitors.