Google Analytics is definitely some good stuff, and while I'm still not entirely happy with their new interface, it did allow for some exporting of some cool data for those who like that sort of thing.

It tells us basically that we had over 44,000 hits, just over 12K of which were uniques. Which I think is pretty good considering how rocky our start was :)

Anyway, here's the files for those who want to see the details:

Is there anything you can do about the filename text? It's black like the background.

Done and done

Should have already been done and done, I changed the text color after noticing it turned black for me too.

Looks like it just needed a forced refresh to show up, but now it's nice and orange for me too.

Looks like a nifty utility indeed. 44K hits is very low however, is there a steady increase in traffic?

It's been a pretty slow climb, but yes, we have been getting consistently better traffic as time goes by.

If 44K is low, what would you consider average?

Around 20K a month would be decent. A bigger, searchable, and maintainable MUD List would help with that I guess.

And I was thinking that an average of 4k per month for the first year wasn't bad at all.. 20k a month would be great, but you've got to give the site a chance to get known a bit too, don't you think? Besides, it's not really like it was really just under 4k/month, it was 252k page views over the course of that 11 month span that's covered in the files he's attached up there.

As for the mud list, it's growing as more muds get listed.. but what's not maintainable enough about it? (adding to the search options for it wouldn't hurt, but it is searchable in its own way currently.)

It's not searchible? http://www.mudbytes.net/index.php?a=mudl...

Ah, you guys have added search options I hadn't seen yet.. so, even more so then, what's wrong with the mud listings, Scandum?

It's too basic and clumsy looking. The codebase tree is pretty nifty, but the other search options aren't useful.

If this was improved it'd become more attractive to both list and search for muds, not to mention it'd become worth linking for mud sites that are disillusioned with The IRE Connector.

I get around 15K hits a month with my retro mud client for geeks and other oddballs who dwell in the past, so 20K should be possible.

you didnt really mention how to improve it.

44k hits 12k of which were unique…so an average of about 4 pages per user?

Seems like alot people visit then leave, because I know I've visited this site alot…

Need to figure out how to get people to browse.

mudconnect.com/adv_search.html

How long has your site been active? Do you recall the statistics you got in the first year?


Content, content, content, then add new content every day. Not really a mystery ;). I should probably be adding articles/snippets daily, or spouting off about the article bbtag more often ;).

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/det...

It's been getting decent hits from the beginning. A good google rating for the right keywords helps.


Too much content isn't good either. The trick is to provide quality content that is well sorted and easy to search through. People come back for that. If it looks like a junkyard people will subconsciously classify it as such.

Your page loads are showing like 15k a month. We do 20-30k a month. And we get about 6 pages per view on a user (not 4, Brinson.) It still leaves much to be desired, but I think it's a good start. The banners are definitely getting their rotations ;)

Ah, I thought Samson was talking pageviews instead of visitors. 20-30k is decent all things considered.

That's why I pointed out that while there'd only been 44k visits in the 11 month period, it was also showing 252k page views in that period.