Economics Web Site Activity 1

Economics Web Site Activity
February 2001

Just some minor jockeying around since last month, the site saw somewhat fewer visitors but they looked at more pages, leaving the site with a modest increase in page views (this log omitted graphics, so hit counts aren't comparable to many other reports you see). Depth is good, we like folks to stay awhile. This all despite a drop in DNS service outside the Forest Service occuring around the 10th and lasting several days. Timber price info still rules the popularity rolls although the Disturbance Economics Research Team is up there as well. For the number crunchers among you, let's look at the importance of search engines this month. Of the most important referral sites outside of our own domain, 80% were search engine sites. Maintaining this visibility takes effort, about 10% of our visits were from spiders.

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General Statistics

The Visitor Profile by Regions graph identifies the general location of the visitors to your Web site. The General Statistics table includes statistics on the total activity for this web site during the designated time frame.

Statistics Report Range: 02/01/2001 00:02:34 - 02/28/2001 23:58:44

Hits Entire Site (Successful) 26,473

Average Per Day 945

Home Page 393

Page Views Page Views (Impressions) 22,950

Average Per Day 819

Document Views 22,426

Visitor Sessions Visitor Sessions 7,406

Average Per Day 264

Average Visitor Session Length 00:12:27

International Visitor Sessions 9.14%

Visitor Sessions of Unknown Origin 20.59%

Visitor Sessions from United States 70.26%

Visitors Unique Visitors 3,841

Visitors Who Visited Once 3,184

Visitors Who Visited More Than Once 657

Most Requested Pages

This section identifies the most popular web site pages and how often they were accessed. The average time a visitor spends viewing a page is also indicated in the table.

Most Requested Pages

Most Requested Pages

Pages Views % of Total Views Visitor Sessions Avg. Time Viewed

1 Timber Price Reports via These Links
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/index_b.htm 2,541 11.33% 1,063 00:04:15

2 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/ 1,945 8.67% 1,064 00:02:06

3 More Information on Timber Prices
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/sources.htm 1,734 7.73% 975 00:02:44

4 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/index_t.htm 1,491 6.64% 996 00:01:51

5 Publications of the Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/reports.htm 603 2.68% 513 00:01:56

6 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/ 575 2.56% 438 00:01:55

7 http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ robots.txt 419 1.86% 358 00:00:32

8 Forestry Sciences Lab., RTP, NC
http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ 393 1.75% 303 00:02:55

9 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/econhome.htm 390 1.73% 349 00:01:13

10 Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/present/mills99/ index_r.htm 272 1.21% 206 00:00:56

11 Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/present/mills99/ 261 1.16% 217 00:00:30

12 Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/present/mills99/ index_l.htm 250 1.11% 207 00:01:01

13 An examination of the relationships between hardwood lumber and stumpage prices
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/wgl981.htm 189 0.84% 181 00:02:38

14 When to cut a stand of trees?
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/rqy971.htm 181 0.8% 172 00:01:36

15 Forest Economics Datasets and Tools, SRS4851
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/datatool.htm 171 0.76% 149 00:01:36

16 Search Here and Beyond, Forest Economics Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/search/ 152 0.67% 146 00:01:33

17 Locations of Mills in the Eastern U.S.
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/mills/mills.htm 142 0.63% 107 00:01:23

18 Study Descriptions
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/studies.htm 132 0.58% 123 00:01:59

19 Publication Categories and Coverage
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/reporting.htm 107 0.47% 102 00:02:14

20 The Disturbance Economics Research Team
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/dert/ 104 0.46% 94 00:01:16

Subtotal For the Page Views Above 12,052 53.74% N/A N/A

Total For the Log File 22,426 100% N/A N/A

Top Entry Pages

This section identifies the first page viewed when a visitor visits this site. This is most likely your home page but, in some cases, it may also be specific URLs that visitors enter to access a particular page directly. The percentages refer to the total number of visitor sessions that started with a valid Document Type. If the session started on a document with a different type (such as a graphic or sound file), the file is not counted as an Entry Page, and the session is not counted in the total.

Top Entry Pages

File % of Total Visitor Sessions

1 More Information on Timber Prices
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/sources.htm 11.6% 795

2 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/ 9.28% 636

3 Timber Price Reports via These Links
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/index_b.htm 5.32% 365

4 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/ 5.26% 361

5 http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ robots.txt 4.84% 332

6 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/index_t.htm 4.26% 292

7 Publications of the Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/reports.htm 3.91% 268

8 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/econhome.htm 3.29% 226

9 Forestry Sciences Lab., RTP, NC
http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ 2.87% 197

10 Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/present/mills99/ 1.32% 91

Total For the Pages Above 52% 3,563

Most Downloaded Files

This section identifies the most popular file downloads for the site. If an error occurred during the transfer, that transfer is not counted.

Most Downloaded Files

File No. of Downloads % of Total Downloads Session Downloads

1 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/fpei/fpei61.pdf 389 11.97% 67

2 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/kjl971.pdf 294 9.04% 40

3 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/fpei/fpei58a.pdf 211 6.49% 50

4 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/wgl981.pdf 209 6.43% 46

5 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/jpp962.pdf 201 6.18% 37

6 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/jde001.pdf 165 5.07% 35

7 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/scfer/scfer80.pdf 154 4.73% 30

8 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/dert/fund2001/topic-c.pdf 144 4.43% 18

9 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/rjm001.pdf 143 4.4% 23

10 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/fpei/fpei62.pdf 137 4.21% 50

Total For the Files Above 2,047 63% N/A

Most Active Countries

This section identifies the top locations of the visitors to the site by country. The country of the visitor is determined by the suffix of their domain name. Use this information carefully because this information is based on where the domain name of the visitor is registered, and may not always be an accurate identifier of the actual geographic location of this visitor. For example, while a vast majority of .com domain names are from the United States, there is a small minority of domain names that exist outside of the United States.

Most Active Countries

Countries Visitor Sessions

1 United States 5,204

2 Canada 143

3 UK 110

4 AU 39

5 Brazil 38

6 Germany 23

Total 5,614

Organization Breakdown

This section provides a breakdown by types of organizations (.com, .net, .edu, .org, .mil, and .gov.) This information can only be displayed if reverse DNS lookups have been performed, and the percentages refer to the total of hits for which the organization type can be determined (some IPs cannot be resolved to a domain, and therefore an organization type cannot be determined).

Organization Breakdown

Summary of Activity for Report Period

This section outlines general server activity, comparing the level of activity on weekdays and weekends. The Average Number of Visitors and Hits on Weekdays are the averages for each individual week day. The Average Number of Visitors and Hits for Weekends groups Saturday and Sunday together. Values in the table do not include erred hits.

Summary of Activity for Report Period

Average Number of Visitors per day on Weekdays 283

Average Number of Hits per day on Weekdays 1,067

Average Number of Visitors for the entire Weekend 433

Average Number of Hits for the entire Weekend 1,280

Most Active Day of the Week Wed

Least Active Day of the Week Sun

Most Active Day Ever February 07, 2001

Number of Hits on Most Active Day 1,548

Least Active Day Ever February 10, 2001

Number of Hits on Least Active Day 312

Most Active Hour of the Day 19:00-19:59

Least Active Hour of the Day 01:00-01:59

Summary of Activity by Time Increment

This section helps you understand the bandwidth requirements of the site by indicating the volume of activity in kilobytes transferred. The table provides various measures of activity by unit of time for the report period (the unit of time depends on the amount of time covered by the report, and will be the day in most cases).

Activity by Time Increment (Bandwidth)

Activity Level by Day of the Week

This section shows the activity for each day of the week for the report period (i.e. if there are two Mondays in the report period, the value presented is the sum of all hits for both Mondays.) Values in the table do not include erred hits.

Activity Level By Day of the Week

Activity Level by Hour of the Day

This section shows the most and the least active hour of the day for the report period. The second table breaks down activity for the given report period to show the average activity for each individual hour of the day (if there are several days in the report period, the value presented is the sum of all hits during that period of time for all days). All times are referenced to the location of the system running the analysis.

Activity Level By Hour of the Day

Number of Views per Visitor Session

This section shows the number and percentages of visits and page views versus the number of pages viewed.

Number of Pages Viewed per Visit

Number of Pages Viewed Number of Visits % of Total Visits

1 page 3,966 57.88%

2 pages 1,087 15.86%

3 pages 462 6.74%

4 pages 397 5.79%

5 pages 214 3.12%

6 pages 117 1.7%

7 pages 104 1.51%

8 pages 98 1.43%

9 pages 79 1.15%

10 pages 52 0.75%

11 pages 35 0.51%

12 or more pages 240 0.58%

Totals 6,851 100%

Top Referring Sites

This section identifies the domain names or numeric IP addresses with links to the site. This information will only be displayed if your server is logging this information.

Top Referring Sites

Site Visitor Sessions

1 No Referrer 2,347

2 http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ 1,484

3 http://www.google.com/ 569

4 http://google.yahoo.com/ 527

5 http://www.fs.fed.us/ 347

6 http://aolsearch.aol.com/ 309

7 http://search.msn.com/ 265

8 http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/ 130

9 http://search.netscape.com/ 92

10 http://www.go.com/ 71

Subtotal for the Referring Sites Above 6,141

Total for the Log File 6,141

Top Search Phrases

The first table identifies Phrases which led the most visitors to the site (regardless of the search engine). The second table identifies, for each phrase, which search engines led visitors to the site.

Top Search Phrases

Phrases Phrases found % of Total

1 timber prices 270 10.55%

2 lumber prices 125 4.88%

3 forest economics 40 1.56%

4 snowstorm pictures 33 1.29%

5 road distance 29 1.13%

6 stumpage prices 21 0.82%

7 conjoint analysis 19 0.74%

8 lumber and prices 16 0.62%

9 timber markets 16 0.62%

10 capital asset pricing model 15 0.58%

11 texas timber price trend 12 0.46%

12 oligopsony 12 0.46%

13 hurricane hugo 11 0.43%

14 hardwood lumber prices 11 0.43%

15 forestry timber prices 11 0.43%

16 srs 10 0.39%

17 impacts of tourism 10 0.39%

18 log prices 10 0.39%

19 timber 10 0.39%

20 forest protection 9 0.35%

Total Found for the Phrases Above 690 26.97%

Total of Phrases Found in the Log File 2,558 100%

Most Used Browsers

This section identifies the most popular WWW Browsers used by visitors to the site. This information will only be displayed if your server is logging the browser/platform information.

Most Used Browsers

Visiting Spiders

This section identifies all robots, spiders, crawlers and search services (i.e. Alta Vista, Lycos, and Excite) visiting the site.

Visiting Spiders

Spider Hits % of Total Hits Visitor Sessions

1 Slurp 2,584 65.53% 37

2 Gulliver 311 7.88% 9

3 ArchitextSpider 243 6.16% 219

4 Mozilla/3.0 (Slurp.so/1.0; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html) 237 6.01% 222

5 Scooter 145 3.67% 1

6 FAST-WebCrawler 141 3.57% 32

7 Mozilla/3.0 (Slurp/si; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html) 104 2.63% 51

8 Mozilla/3.0 (Slurp/cat; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html) 57 1.44% 53

9 Slurp.so 23 0.58% 23

10 kobot 10 0.25% 3

11 Scooter-scooter_Mc_kalyan_45 7 0.17% 3

12 Scooter-tv35_Mc_kalyan_37_2 7 0.17% 3

13 Scooter-tv33_Mc_kalyan_3 5 0.12% 4

14 URL Spider Pro 5 0.12% 1

15 GenCrawler 4 0.1% 4

16 Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex) 4 0.1% 2

17 Scooter-tv35_Mc_kalyan_31_1 3 0.07% 1

18 Scooter-tv35_Mc_kalyan_31_3 3 0.07% 1

19 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; MSIECrawler; Windows 95) 3 0.07% 2

20 xyro_(xcrawler@cosmos.inria.fr) 3 0.07% 0

Total For Spiders Above 3,899 98.88% 671

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