phpBB Weekly's 2009 in Statistics

[webmacster87]

Statistics are fun, don't you think? Well, I don't actually pay very close attention to them because I don't like it to affect the way I think. But it's actually nice to take a look at how we've been doing throughout the year. So entirely for your enjoyment, here we go...

Live Participants:
Sources: TalkShoe (January-August), uStream (August-December)
Only episodes that were broadcast live are indicated in parentheses
January (3 episodes): 23
February (3 episodes): 52
March (3 episodes): 13
April (2 episodes): 11
May (3 episodes): 13
June (4 episodes): 62
July (4 episodes): 65
August (TalkShoe, 2 episodes): 35
August (uStream, 1 episode plus a test broadcast): 20 unique/40 total
September (3 episodes): 37 unique/64 total
October (3 episodes): 29 unique/46 total
November (3 episodes): 29 unique/41 total
December (3 episodes): 24 unique/40 total

Downloads:
Sources: TalkShoe (January-December; yes we still get lots of downloads via TalkShoe) and Tech Podcast Network Statistics (August-December)
January: 1.075
February: 1,103
March: 1,129
April: 823
May: 813
June: 921
July: 1,103
August: 1,291
September: 1,404
October: 1,088
November: 1,189
December: 1,110

Website Visits:
Source: Google Analytics
January: 1,282
February: 1,869
March: 1,635
April: 1,259
May: 1,468
June: 1,860
July: 2,133 (all-time record)
August: 1,643
September: 1,257
October: 1,070
November: 882
December: 861

Additional Statistics About Our Downloads:
Source: Tech Podcast Network Statistics (August-December)
Overall Distribution
Web Browsers -- 1,798 (58.9%)
60 of these are Plays in Page
Podcatchers -- 633 (20.7%)
Anonymous -- 604 (20.4%)
Mobile Web Browsers -- 19

Top Platforms
Windows -- 1,973 (64.6%)
Linux -- 473 (15.5%)
Macintosh -- 411 (13.5%)
Unknown -- 113 (3.7%)
Others -- 84 (2.7%)

Top Clients
Internet Explorer -- 1,283 (42.0%)
Unknown -- 604 (19.8%)
iTunes -- 417 (13.7%)
Firefox -- 333 (10.9%)
Songbird -- 79 (2.6%)
cURL -- 58 (1.9%)
Opera -- 46 (1.5%)
Windows Media Player -- 41 (1.3%)
Miro (Democracy) -- 33 (1.1%)
Others -- 160 (5.2%)

Top Countries
China -- 864 (28.3%)
United States -- 559 (18.3%)
Russian Federation -- 523 (17.1%)
United Kingdom -- 505 (16.5%)
Netherlands -- 137 (4.5%)
Italy -- 57 (1.9%)
Germany -- 52 (1.7%)
Australia -- 38 (1.2%)
Switzerland -- 32 (1.1%)
Others -- 287 (9.5%)

Additional Statistics About Our Website Visitors:
Source: Google Analytics (January-December)
Top Three Days This Year (in terms of visitors)
Tuesday, March 17 -- 143 visitors
Monday, July 20 -- 141 visitors
Monday, February 9 -- 110 visitors

Total Stats for the Full Year
17,219 Visits
11,441 Absolute Unique Visitors
24,631 Pageviews
1.43 Average Pageviews
00:01:12 Time on Site
79.20% Bounce Rate
66.04% New Visitors

22.28% of visits were direct trafic
23.87% of visits were from referring sites
53.64% of visits were from search engines

All numbers for the remaining statistics represent Website Visits
Web Browsers
Firefox -- 10,131 (58.84%)
Internet Explorer -- 2,721 (15.80%)
Safari -- 2,130 (12.37%)
Chrome -- 865 (5.02%)
Opera -- 734 (4.26%)
Mozilla -- 396 (2.30%)
Mozilla Compatible Agent -- 134 (0.78%)
Opera Mini -- 32 (0.19%)
Camino -- 26 (0.15%)
Konqueror -- 12 (0.07%)
Others -- 38 (0.23%)

Connection Speeds
DSL -- 6,850
Unknown -- 4,549
Cable -- 4,270
T1 -- 1,193
Dialup -- 321
OC3 -- 27
ISDN -- 9

Top 10 Countries
United States -- 8,107
Netherlands -- 2,044
United Kingdom -- 1,360
Germany -- 910
Canada -- 606
Australia -- 483
France -- 372
India -- 342
Poland -- 286
Italy -- 281

Top 10 Traffic Sources
google -- 8,717
direct -- 3,837
phpbb.com -- 1,097
startrekguide.com -- 1,002
twitter.com -- 759
yahoo -- 372
wp-united.com -- 110
sixstringmods.co.uk -- 85
bing -- 62
planet.phpbb.cs278.org -- 60

Top 10 Seach Keyword Referrals
phpbb 3.0.4 exploit -- 234
phpbb weekly -- 196
phpbb 3.0.5 exploit -- 136
phpbb3 custom profile fields -- 122
phpbb -- 84
phpbb 3.2 -- 81
phpbb 3.0.5 -- 68
manage phpbb mod -- 66
phpbb podcast april fools -- 63
phpbbweekly -- 57

Top 10 Content
Home Page -- 8,507
Tag: Zero Day Exploit -- 850
Tag: Custom Profile Fields -- 570
Weekly Picks -- 542
OSCONvasion 2009 -- 485
Tag: CAPTCHA -- 381
Tag: AutoMOD -- 361
phpBB Weekly #093 -- 306
Participate -- 288
Live (page no longer exists as of 12/29) -- 283

In short, it's been quite a year. Thanks for helping us to build a great audience and community in 2009; we wouldn't still be making phpBB Weekly happen if it wasn't for you. Let's see if we can build even bigger numbers in 2010!

[Highway of Life]

Wow, this is really fascinating. Now just need some graphs.

I’m curious, since switching to Amazon AWS, are you still able to track the downloads?

[webmacster87]

David, didn't you see the downloads listed up there?

The Tech Podcast Network (which we are a member of) offers a really awesome stats service far superior to TalkShoe's which we have been utilizing ever since we switched to AWS. And yes they have very detailed pie graphs, though I don't think there's an easy way to get them posted here.

[Sullivan]

Ah wow, excellent thanks for posting. Very interesting!

Heh graphes would definitly be a nice added touch =P