Web Update: 29/04/08

Housekeeping

• Fixed corrupted file for To The Last Man. No I don't know how it got corrupted, but it did.
  

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

In February, I discovered and decided to make use of Google Analytics, a web statistics monitoring package provided by that search giant that is the Almight Google. I have web statistics on my website as provided by my host, but it leaves out data such as search terms used. Out of curiosity, I thought I'd summarise them here. This is the information garnered from mid-February, when I first started monitoring, to the 31st of March.

Monitoring is only on main menu pages. Individual pages are not counted by Google.

Visitors

In the course of over a month, there were 233 visitors, 79 of those were people who were coming back to the site for more than one look.

They came from 15 countries, 90 of them from the UK with the US providing the second most visitors at 64. The top five cities people came from were, in order: London, Warrington, Sydney, Vancouver and Wallington. There were also visitors from Moose Jaw.

Referrals

The majority of the people visiting my site were direct links, meaning they didn't follow a link from another website, but the second most common method to find my site was through Google.

The majority of the search terms used were b-jewelled or some variation thereof, which makes me rather pleased that apparently people were searching for me directly.

Other most common terms include:

• earth final conflict fanfiction (15)
  
• torchwood fanfiction or recaps (7)
  
• "she goes by the" -raconteurs site:uk (1)
  

No, I'm not sure what that last one is myself. The next most common referral was from my own LJ, with a sharp spike up on March 17th, where the number of visitors triple from the average after posting a fic on the torchwood_fic LJ community. The other big referrers were a Stargate fic rec community on LJ, and a private LJ where a friend had provided a link to some of my stuff.

Others include the Shaharazard fic archive, and various web forums I belong to.

Pages

According to Google, the most commonly viewed page after the index is the Stargate fic index page with 96 views. The next most commonly viewed is the Torchwood fic page, with 82. The least popular page was the Subreality fic page with only 8 views.

The story on the webstats from my hosting package is somewhat different, as it includes all pages on the site. According to them, the top five pages (not counting the index page) for March are:

• b-jewelled.co.uk/personal.shtml
  
• b-jewelled.co.uk/fanfic/twfic.shtml
  
• b-jewelled.co.uk/fanfic/sgfic.shtml
  
• b-jewelled.co.uk/fanfic/sg1/allthingslost.html
  
• b-jewelled.co.uk/fanfic/efcfic.shtml
  

See what my visitors are generally coming to read? All about me and fanfic apparently.

Web Update: 12/04/08

Torchwood Recaps/Reviews

• Added review for From Out of the Rain
  
• Added recap & review for Adrift
  

Housekeeping

• Fixed broken return links in the Recap pages
  
• Switched fonts on all fic pages to Georgia
  

Rift-Tastic

I'm very bad at updating this page, I know. Mostly because it requires an active effort to remind myself. I've made some changes in an attempt to make it slightly easier for myself. For one, the "site blog" link now refers to the blogspot blog at http://b-jewelled.blogspot.com/. I'll be putting my update posts in there, and you should just get to see the most recent one on this page. That's the plan anyway. We'll see how it survives implementation.

At least I finally remembered to update the fanfic section. You'll see there are two shiny new fics under the Doctor Who/Torchwood category, as well as updating the reviews for Torchwood series two so we're caught up with BBC2. Well, we're not entirely caught up. Only the reviews for episodes seven, eight and nine are up. The recaps will be forthcoming, probably after the current series has concluded (sometime in the middle of next week).

Plans after that... well, I'm tempted to do the same thing for Doctor Who, since I've started to get to liking this whole recap/review thing. But I think I will also make it my project to go back and do series one of Torchwood. Might be especially fun to do in retrospect at the end of series two.

Let's see, what else is on the horizon. Ah yes. I went and ordered tickets to the one-day event The Rift in London at the end of April, which I'm starting to quite look forward to, although I'm being all woe-is-me about the fact that my friends are not great Torchwood fans. Screw you guys. I get to see James Marsters. Hahaha.

(Oh, and also Gareth David-Lloyd, Eve Myles, Catherine Treganna, Chris Chibnall, Alan Dale, James Moran, and more!)

At some point, I'll also try to remember to put up some pictures from my trip around Ireland recently with a friend of mine. Trust me. There'll be a lot of rocks in the pictures. Oho! That's the other thing, I suppose. I'm currently doing an OU course in Geology. My first exam is due a week on Thursday and I'm so behind. God. This is like being back at college.

Excuse me while I go hyperventilate into a paper bag.

Web Update: 17/03/08

Torchwood Recaps/Reviews

• Added review for Dead Man Walking
• Added review for Dead In The Death
• Added review for Something Borrowed

Fanfiction

• Torchwood: On Being God (Toshiko, Gen)
• Doctor Who/Torchwood: Snapshots (Tish Jones, Jack Harkness, Gen)