Sujoy Mukherjee, the webmaster of John Abhraham’s website, has revealed that the website gets 7 million hits per month. Sujoy will need to understand that the assessment of web statistics in terms of “hits” is an obsolete method, in case he doesn’t want to mislead the audience with wrong statistics. I think this statistics includes the hits of Bots and Spiders, and hits of image files ( including small graphics of design corners) as well.
The html source code of the website doesn’t show any client side web Analytics code which means the statistics is derived from the web log files. I have always find it very difficult to exclude the traffic of bots and spiders from statistics of log files, this is the reason why I use Google Analytics. My suggestion to Sujoy Mukherjee is to signup for Google Analytics, it is free and very reliable. You can also find lot of other interesitng statistics through Google Analytics. Check the Google Analytics website for more information on Google Analytics.
Where does John Abraham’s website stands?
I have done a bit of research on the internet and gathered couple of ranking reports of http://www.johnabraham.com website, which shows different statistics.
| Reports | |
| Alexa.com Report | The Alexa rank of the website is 361371 which I interprets to approx 2000 unique visitor a month and around 6000 page impressions. |
| Ranking.com Report | The Ranking.com website shows 80,173 which I interprets to approx 1800 unique visitor a month and 6000 page impression. |
| Urltrends.com Report | The Google link popularity is 19, alexa link popularity is 50 and yahoo link popularity is 540. |
| Quantcast.com Report | The Quantcast report shows 2000 U.S. monthly uniques with 6,168,239 rank |
Talking about John’s website, Sujoy says,
If you do a Google search for John, you will get around 1,750 pages sources from various fansites. This is the maximum number of pages devoted to any actor. Also, he has people logging in from the remotest parts of the world.
His statement doesn’t make any sense to me. If it does make any sense to you please leave a comment on this post. Anyways, Here is the Google search trend of John Abraham against another Bollywood hot shot Salman Khan, where Salman is leading against John.
Google Trends Report of John Abraham and Salman Khan
What are the web analytics terms means? [Source: Wikipedia]
- Hit – A request for a file from the web server. Available only in log analysis. The number of hits received by a website is frequently cited to assert its popularity, but this number is extremely misleading and dramatically over-estimates popularity. A single web-page typically consists of multiple (often dozens) of discrete files, each of which is counted as a hit as the page is downloaded, so the number of hits is really an arbitrary number more reflective of the complexity of individual pages on the website than the website’s actual popularity. The total number of visitors or page views provides a more realistic and accurate assessment of popularity.
- Page View – A request for a file whose type is defined as a page in log analysis. An occurrence of the script being run in page tagging. In log analysis, a single page view may generate multiple hits as all the resources required to view the page (images, .js and .css files) are also requested from the web server.
- Visit / Session – A series of requests from the same uniquely identified client with a set timeout. A visit is expected to contain multiple hits (in log analysis) and page views.
- First Visit / First Session – A visit from a visitor who has not made any previous visits.
- Visitor / Unique Visitor/UniqueUser – The uniquely identified client generating requests on the web server (log analysis) or viewing pages (page tagging) within a defined time period (i.e. day, week or month). A Unique Visitor counts once within the timescale. A visitor can make multiple visits.
- Repeat Visitor – A visitor that has made at least one previous visit. The period between the last and current visit is called visitor recency and is measured in days.
- New Visitor – A visitor that has not made any previous visits. This definition creates a certain amount of confusion (see common confusions below), and is sometimes substituted with analysis of first visits.
- Impression – An impression is each time an advertisement loads on a users screen. Anytime you see a banner, that is an impression.
- Singletons – The number of visits where only a single page is viewed. While not a useful metric in and of itself the number of singletons is indicative of various forms of “Click Fraud” as well as being used to calculate bounce rate and in some cases to identify automatons (“bots”).
P.S : Don’t get me wrong, I am not anti John or anti Bipasha. Just expressing my views on the incidents.
