A Year of Web Stats

The end of May marked one year of analysed web site logs for the OSGeo.org web site. Here are just a few of the highlights showing the (monthly) traffic increases between May 2007 and May 2008.

• Unique visitors: 14,582 to 41,429
• Visits: 26,280 to 85,861
• Pages viewed: 124,574 to 397,534
• Hits: 784,545 to 1,186,885

I won't draw too many conclusions from these stats except to note that since Sept 2007 the number of unique visitors per month has almost exactly doubled (20,546 to 41,429).

You may also find it interesting to know the trends about who views our site. These are based on totals for the year 2007 and the year 2008 to date:

Browser used

• 2007 - Firefox (37%) vs Internet Explorer (53%)
• 2008 - Firefox (46%) vs Internet Explorer (39%)

Operating System

• 2007 - Windows (84%) vs Linux (8%)
• 2008 - windows (78%) vs Linux (12%)

The OSGeo.org server has been fairly static in terms of content, though events, news and language translations continue to be updated. So increases in traffic are mostly tied to increased visibility not just new content.

There are also separate stats available for the OSGeo download server, they were not included here. Over the past year more projects are now hosting or mirroring their project downloads on that site, so the trends are somewhat less meaningful.

Tyler Mitchell
3-June-2008