Selected Usage Statistics for 2004 - 2008

for tfaoi.org:

 

Record monthly high for sites is 442,340 and for hits 3,690,773, both reached in February, 2008. Record monthly high for visits is 495,337, reached July, 2007.

 

Summary for April, 2008 as PNG file. There were 464,272 visits from 398,317 sites.

 

Summary for October, 2007 as PNG file. There were 424,522 visits from 364,380 sites.

 

Summary for July, 2007 as PNG file. In July there were 495,337 visits from 268,104 sites.

 

Summary for January, 2007 as PNG file. There were 390,836 visits from 288,460 sites.

 

Summary for October, 2006 as PNG file. There were 393,825 visits from 284,960 sites.

 

Week of Oct 2nd, 2005 as PDF file

 

Week of Mar 27th, 2005 as PDF file

 

Week of Oct 31st, 2004 as PDF file

 

Note:

Usage reports for 2004-2005 were provided by Live Stats, a service of DeepMetrix Corporation. The 2006 and later statistics were compiled by Webalizer. See the Webalizer Quick Help page for explanations of main headings on the TFAO PNG file charts and common definitions.

TFAO roughly likens its web site sessions and visits counts to a count of individuals that walk in and out of a brick and mortar public free library over a set period of time.

Accurately measuring individual human visitors to tfaoi.org's web site is complicated by instances where search engines index pages and more than one person uses a browser while a session is in progress. Also, traffic to tfaoi.com, kept live to preserve bookmarks set prior to the initiation of tfaoi.org, may not be fully included in statistics after 2004.

Advanced market research:

Incoming traffic: TFAO does not measure inbound traffic from individual IP addresses, domains or websites. Sometimes TFAO is sending information to over 400,000 users per month. The composition of such a wide spectrum of users is too complex for in-depth analysis by TFAO.

Outbound traffic: Some TFAO pages contain many links to Web pages outside of TFAO's digital library. Many people link from TFAO pages to other sites from institutional computers serving multiple people (e.g. college and other libraries) rather than personal computers. We know of no way to accurately determine how many people use jointly shared computers. We suspect that since TFAO has a digital library, the library to library traffic is substantial. Since people use TFAO primarily as a content library not a source of links, they may read articles one day and later on go to a content source's site or physical location without linking from the TFAO site. TFAO refers readers to content source homepages through multiple pages in the TFAO site, sometimes dozens of pages. TFAO also provides direct links to individual pages in a content source's site. For an estimate of the quantity of text and images in TFAO's website please see TFAO-dl: Content and paper-printed book equivalence.

Google Analytics and other research services could be of use to TFAO content sources in measuring traffic from TFAO to their sites. Sources need to determine whether Analytics or other services track traffic from a URL (a single TFAO Web page), a domain (tfaoi.com and tfaoi.org), or a computer/network (IP address).

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