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Most Accessed Pages - Most Accessed Sections - Visitors by Countries - Traffic Development - Site Summary
The creation of maintenance of consistent site statistics, especially if they span several years, is not always possible. Although the automated analysis of server logs is much more reliable than the use of web-based tools, there may be outages like file size overflows, and at latest with a provider or software change the old statistics become pretty worthless. The following figures should be taken with a grain of salt, also because most pages that are requested remain unread anyway.
(Date range: 07/07-01/08, www.ex-astris-scientia.org only, excluding index pages and dynamic pages)
1. Galleries - Starfleet Bridge Illustrations: 1.90% of all pageviews
2. Starship Database - Starfleet Ship Classes A-K: 1.14%
3. Starship Database - Starfleet Ship Classes L-Z: 1.06%
4. Links: 0.83%
5. Fleet Charts: 0.74%
6. Galleries - Various Starship Interiors: 0.67%
7. Starship Gallery - Various Starfleet Vessels: 0.66%
8. Starship Gallery - Constitution: 0.59%
9. Starship Database - Earth Ship Classes: 0.56%
10. Starship Gallery - First Contact Vessels: 0.52%
(Date range: 07/07-01/08, www.ex-astris-scientia.org only, by pageviews in the respective directories)
1. Galleries: 11.31% of all pageviews in a directory
2. Starship Gallery: 10.67%
3. Starship Database: 9.79%
4. Starship Articles: 8.79%
5. Investigations: 7.56%
6. EAS Fleet Yards: 3.61%
7. Episode Reviews: 2.64%
8. Treknology Encyclopedia: 1.56%
9. Timeline: <1%
10. Character Bios: <1%
(according to Motigo, 08/98-01/08)
1. United States: 46.4 %
2. Germany: 9.5 %
3. United Kingdom: 9.2 %
4. Canada: 7.8 %
5. Netherlands: 2.3 %
6. Australia: 1.6 %
7. Italy: 1.3 %
8. Austria: 1.2 %
9. Sweden: 1.1 %
10. Japan: 1.1 %
The traffic graphs of EAS reveal some interesting trends of the site, of the Star Trek franchise and of the internet as a whole.
Visitor statistics for EAS were archived by Nedstat (now Motigo) from August 1998 to May 2009 (light green). However, Nedstat only counts the visits to the EAS index page. The overall number of visits according to my server logs (available since September 2002 with a few short outages that I had to interpolate) is more than twice as high (yellow). This is obvious, as direct referrals through bookmarks or search engines may easily produce visits that do no include the index page. The third graph is the traffic in gigabytes per month. It is measured since August 2000, initially on the Strato server (light teal).
Looking at the graphs chronologically, we can make out a steady, more than linear increase up to the year 2002. Especially the announcement of the then new series, Enterprise, in early 2001 may have given the site a boost, as well as the whole Trek franchise. From April to June 2002 the Nedstat visitor count dropped drastically, and there is a gap in the traffic records. The reason is that Strato, the web host, untimely ended the contract with wrong assertions against me. The site came back online very soon, as did the counters.
It is interesting to note that up to about March 2003 the traffic and the visits according to Nedstat kept rising almost perfectly proportionally. They belong to two different axes in the diagram, which are scaled in a way that the two curves are nearly congruent. Starting in 2003 the increase of the visitor count was slowed down. I can only speculate about the reasons, but one explanation may be the dwindling interest in Enterprise in its second and third seasons. Also, after a couple of years of steady growth the internet may have reached a first phase of saturation, at least within the "geeky" target group of EAS. The traffic figures carried on rising significantly nonetheless until 2005. Without much speculation I can say that Google is responsible for that development. The ever refined search methods increasingly find pages with lots of content instead of just keywords, and the image search (popular since about 2004) loves descriptive text next to images, as it is commonplace at EAS.
In the first half of 2005 both the Nedstat visitor count and the traffic data dropped drastically. The reason is obvious, as this coincided with the cancellation of Enterprise. The decreasing traffic figure may be partially attributed to the hotlinking ban though. In March 2005 I disabled the display of images from the EAS server on external sites. The visitor count as recorded by the server quickly rose again two months later for unknown reasons.
While the number of site visitors further decreased from 2005 to 2007, I was glad that at least the traffic did not increase. It occasionally came close to 200 gigabytes though. After 2006 had been a rather steady year, 2007 brought another clear decrease, at least of both server-generated figures. At first the announcement of the new movie didn't have a strong impact on EAS, as it probably rather benefited the sites with frequent news on "Star Trek XI". I could notice two traffic spikes in January 2008 (first teaser trailer) and in November 2008 (first Enterprise picture and full trailer). The release of the movie in May 2009, however, brought an all-time visitor (>250,000) and traffic (300 gigabytes) high, the best day being May 11th with 14067 visits.
Finally, the traffic as well as the visitor numbers are generally higher in the winter months of the northern hemisphere than in the summer. The exception is Christmas, the only particular day of the year with a visitor count that is systematically 20% lower than the month's average. It is not visible on the chart, but the short-term variation of visitor numbers is otherwise just ±6%, which is unusually stable.
EAS
Network
21,781 files, 928MB total size
975 HTML, 38 PDF, 10 TIF, 18,685 JPG, 1854 GIF, 53 PNG
16,937,385 visitors from 20.08.98 to 28.08.10
Current traffic volume: 200GB per month
Administrator: Bernd Schneider
Ex Astris Scientia (EAS)
URL: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org
Idea & copyright: Bernd Schneider
Webmaster: Bernd Schneider
Founded: 21.01.98, name EAS in use since 03.07.98
URL: http://www.starfleet-museum.org
Idea & copyright: Masao Okazaki
Webmaster: Bernd Schneider
Founded: 08.10.99
URL: http://www.trekships.org
Idea & copyright: ASDB
Webmaster: Bernd Schneider
Founded: 20.07.99
URL: http://www.treknology.org
Idea & copyright: ASDB et al.
Webmaster: Bernd Schneider
Founded: 26.05.02
URL: http://fiction.ex-astris-scientia.org
Idea & copyright: various authors
Webmaster: Bernd Schneider
Founded: 03.03.02
URL: http://canonfodder.ex-astris-scientia.org
Idea & copyright: Patrick Carroll & Bernd Schneider
Webmaster: Bernd Schneider
Founded: 30.11.05
Hosted site
Star Trek Dimension
URL: http://www.stdimension.org
Idea & copyright: Christian
Administrator: Bernd Schneider
Hosted site
Federation Starship Datalink
URL: http://www.starshipdataklink.net
Idea & copyright: Hobbes
Webmaster: Hobbes
Hosted site
Star Trek: The Breen War
URL: http://tbw.ex-astris-scientia.org
Executive producer: Greg MacDonald
Webmaster: Cador Davis "Makaveli"
Official forum
Subspace Comms Network (SCN)
URL: http://www.subspace-comms.net
Administrators: Bernd Schneider, Bond, James Bond,
Makaveli
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