Trying to make sense of my web stats...
Mar. 15th, 2006 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpOver at my work-related site, I took a look at my Webalizer stats and was intrigued by a section named "Search Strings."
It appears that, back in October of last year, before my most recent Great Web Buildout™, 80% of the search strings logged had to do with the "prophet mohammed" (that may sound impressive, but there were only 10 items in the log). For November, neither "prophet" nor "mohammed" was to be found among the top 20 search strings, only to reappear with an 8% showing in December.
In January, about 15% of strings contained "mohammed" or some variation. In February, "mohammed" was involved in about 50% of just over 425 strings.
The thing is: you can look all day, there is no reference to "mohammed" or "prophet" or anything of the sort anywhere on my site.
So my question is this: What is the actual significance of the "Search Strings" usage statistic? Someone came to my site after looking up said string at a search engine? They did it because...? (There's something missing, here.)
A quick look through the Internet was less than illuminating.
Cheers...
It appears that, back in October of last year, before my most recent Great Web Buildout™, 80% of the search strings logged had to do with the "prophet mohammed" (that may sound impressive, but there were only 10 items in the log). For November, neither "prophet" nor "mohammed" was to be found among the top 20 search strings, only to reappear with an 8% showing in December.
In January, about 15% of strings contained "mohammed" or some variation. In February, "mohammed" was involved in about 50% of just over 425 strings.
The thing is: you can look all day, there is no reference to "mohammed" or "prophet" or anything of the sort anywhere on my site.
So my question is this: What is the actual significance of the "Search Strings" usage statistic? Someone came to my site after looking up said string at a search engine? They did it because...? (There's something missing, here.)
A quick look through the Internet was less than illuminating.
Cheers...
