April 20, 2010

What are Page Details, Popularity and Site Statistics?

Defining Page Details, Popularity, and Site Statistics analytics.

When you are logged into LiveWhale, you can see in the blue bar a link entitled, “Page Details.” Clicking this makes a little window drop down that tells who last edited the page (and when), as well as some general “page view” statistics pulled from Google Analytics.

A typical entry:

Statistics
   •    50 page views in past week (popularity: 66%)
   •    28044 page views in past month (popularity: 70%)
   •    55574 page views in past year (popularity: 71%)

So what does all this mean?

The first row lists hits on your page over the past week; the next two rows give page views for the site as a whole.

Popularity ranks the page hits against the page hits of all other pages on the lclark site. So if you’re 1% you’re one of the most rarely viewed pages, and if you’re 99% you’re… probably the homepage.

A page at 50% popularity is “average,” meaning that about half of the pages on your site are viewed less than that one, and about half are viewed more.