Six Million Minutes, give or take

It's been a little over six million minutes since I put the very first post on this website. I don't really know how many visitors and page views we've had since then because I've only been using Google Analytics since July of 2005. That's almost two million minutes though, which is a pretty long time, so I thought I'd ask Analytics to give me Top Content for the time that it knows at least.

Surprisingly, it only takes a few seconds for Analytics to churn through and add all that up; the results are in the table below. I understand the popularity of most of these pages. There are two that make no sense: The "Google Earth Street View" and the "Panasonic LF-D201U DVD-RAM" get traffic for no reason that I can guess.

If you aren't using Analytics, you are missing out on a lot of useful and interesting data. I wish I could go all the way back to 1997 with this, but having it from 2005 isn't shabby either.

====> This little exercise and some comments at Brett Legree's 6 Weeks site made me wonder just what is the highest page view tally for a single "real" page. That is, a real post that people read: not AOL's home page or anything else that changes constantly, but a static page like these.

I tried Googling but all I find is pages like this or references to Orkut, Facebook, etc. Those aren't what I want to know. Any ideas?

Top 25 pages, July 11 2005 through April 4th 2009

Some of the pages above were posted before I started using Analytics, so their real page view count is higher.. I have no data though.

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Sun Apr 5 18:10:44 2009: Subject:   TonyLawrence


I've sent email to all the "big names" that I have email for - it isn't very many and it will probably just get ignored.

Anybody have any "in" with anyone who might have a handle on the "Highest Page Views Ever" question?



Sun Apr 5 22:26:49 2009: Subject:   BigDumbDinosaur
http://bcstechnology.net

Anybody have any "in" with anyone who might have a handle on the "Highest Page Views Ever" question?

Not me, but it doesn't surprise me that the "lost password" page is number one on your hit parade. What did surprise me was that my cron article made it into the top 25. And to think I dashed off the article as explanatory material for a friend who was taking his first UNIX steps...

The one that I wrote that isn't in the list was one I would have though to be more relevant these days (annotated guide to Samba configuration).



Sun Apr 5 23:59:25 2009: Subject:   BrettLegree
http://6weeks.ca

Six million - wow, when you put it that way...

We'll have to see what the "big names" have to say - in the mean time, I will check out some of your more popular articles. I've read a few of them, but there are a lot I have missed.



Mon Apr 6 11:15:09 2009: Subject:   TonyLawrence


I would have expected that Samba Guide to do better also, but it's actually pretty far down: 3,576 views for the same period. That's not shabby though: it's position 346 overall !



Mon Apr 6 11:19:29 2009: Subject:   TonyLawrence


We'll have to see what the "big names" have to say

I got one response: he didn't understand the question.. :-)



Mon Apr 6 12:13:10 2009: Subject:   TonyLawrence


By the way, that article Steggy mentioned is at http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/samba-guide.html

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