[thelist] Google Images referrals
Bob Meetin
ontheroad at frii.com
Sun Apr 8 08:58:01 CDT 2007
Can't tell ya why, but if the hosting provider is running Apache and
capturing data into the/a standard format apache log file, then you out
to be able to take a look at the file and possibly run it through a
reporting script to organize the results. You can easily 'grep' for
image files. Frequently providers zero out these files at the end of a
month, so you may want to set up a simple cronjob to copy the logfile
before it gets zapped so that you can maintain some history. I did this
myself because the graphical report my provider includes is laden with
bells and whistles, charts and graphs, but doesn't cut to the chase. -B
Mattias Thorslund wrote:
> Hiyall,
>
> I've been looking at some of the stats of one of the sites I run. In the
> list of referrals by search engines I see the following (absolute
> numbers redacted):
>
> February: Pages Hits
> ===============================
> Google 87.9 % 87.2 %
> MSN 5.5 % 5.5 %
> Yahoo 2.2 % 2.2 %
> Google (Images) 1.9 % 2.7 %
> Others 2.5 % 2.4 %
>
> March: Pages Hits
> ===============================
> Google 72.3 % 66.1 %
> Google (Images) 16.2 % 23.2 %
> MSN 3.5 % 3.2 %
> Yahoo 2.7 % 2.7 %
> Others 5.3 % 4.8 %
>
>
> One thing that jumps out is of course Google's absolute dominance in
> these referrals.
>
> I also note that Google Images have jumped significantly from one month
> to the next. Wonder what new image on my site matches a hot search
> phrase? All the images are pretty boring anyway.
>
> One thought is that Google Images changed their referral headers some
> time in February so that hits from there can be broken out from other
> Google referrals. Anyone know? Other ideas?
>
> Mattias
>
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