Economics Web Site Activity Aug-Sep 2000

Economics Web Site Activity
August and September 2000

August: Summary numbers would suggest little change in activity this month over our earlier summer doldrums, but that would not be entirely true. Changes in our server logging procedures meant that activity the first 3-4 days of the month did not appear in this log, understating total activity by about 10 percent. More interesting is the jump in visitation to the price section of our web site. Newly launched in early May, promotion of the site to major search engines finally bore fruit this month--4 of the 5 most popular pages were from this section and over 15 percent of visitors coming to the site via search engines included the term "price" in their search. Another new entrant hit stride this month--the full-text version of the Gumpertz et al. paper rose from obscurity to second most downloaded paper in just one month. Early this month all abstract pages were revamped, look for even more improvements in navigating this popular content next month.

September: The summer doldrums are officially over for this site with a startling 70% increase in hits per day over August, July and June. While return to school might account for some of the increased activity, visits from education domains still make up a relatively minor share of the total. The September jump appears to be a continuation of one seen last month--the addition and promotion of our timber price pages. These pages made up four of our five most popular pages. Scanning further down the list of most popular pages suggests that some visitors were stopping to check related pages on our site despite the page's main focus of routing visitors to resources on other web sites.

Visits of greater than one page increased substantially, especially with the most lengthy visits. Much of the increase in visits was from search engines, with "price" part of the top three search terms. Increased activity was not entirely due to the price pages, referrals from search engines rose in general with visitors seeking information on "conjoint analysis," "logistic regression" and "capital budgeting techniques" to name a few.

This month's activity bested our previous record set in May, a jump fueled by the draft RPA 2000 Timber Assessment presentations. Keyed to a round of public presentations that month, the addition doubled the number of web pages on our site, but that content is of temporary relevance--the draft content will shortly be replaced by a final version on a different site.

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General Statistics

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Statistics Report Range: 08/04/2000 16:26:31 - 09/30/2000 23:59:00

Hits Entire Site (Successful) 87,490

Average Per Day 1,508

Home Page 865

Page Views Page Views (Impressions) 39,347

Average Per Day 678

Document Views 38,970

Visitor Sessions Visitor Sessions 13,731

Average Per Day 236

Average Visitor Session Length 00:11:08

International Visitor Sessions 8.14%

Visitor Sessions of Unknown Origin 18.81%

Visitor Sessions from United States 73.03%

Visitors Unique Visitors 5,442

Visitors Who Visited Once 4,402

Visitors Who Visited More Than Once 1,040

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 1,510 3.87% 968 00:02:23

2 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/ 1,317 3.37% 960 00:01:04

3 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/index_t.htm 1,311 3.36% 937 00:01:47

4 More Information on Timber Prices
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/sources.htm 1,194 3.06% 839 00:02:04

5 Publications of the Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/reports.htm 1,000 2.56% 867 00:01:09

6 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/ 940 2.41% 774 00:01:38

7 Forestry Sciences Lab., RTP, NC
http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ 865 2.21% 684 00:02:23

8 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/econhome.htm 850 2.18% 738 00:01:50

9 http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ robots.txt 840 2.15% 707 00:01:37

10 Forest Economics Datasets and Tools, SRS4851
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/datatool.htm 379 0.97% 336 00:01:34

11 Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/present/mills99/ index_r.htm 356 0.91% 267 00:01:52

12 Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/present/mills99/ 354 0.9% 276 00:01:09

13 Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/present/mills99/ index_l.htm 320 0.82% 263 00:01:18

14 Locations of Mills in the Eastern U.S.
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/mills/mills.htm 314 0.8% 225 00:02:26

15 Search Here and Beyond, Forest Economics Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/search/ 310 0.79% 281 00:02:02

16 An examination of the relationships between hardwood lumber and stumpage prices
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/wgl981.htm 289 0.74% 277 00:02:35

17 Study Descriptions
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/studies.htm 278 0.71% 248 00:02:01

18 Timber Mart South Area Conversion Weights for Timber and Log Prices
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/tmbrmart/ 267 0.68% 199 00:01:45

19 Evaluating the Forest Stewardship Program Through a National Survey of Participa
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/jde001.htm 221 0.56% 205 00:03:22

20 Recent Publications, FY93-98, SRS Forest Economics Unit
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/allrar.htm 196 0.5% 176 00:02:13

Subtotal For the Page Views Above 13,111 33.64% N/A N/A

Total For the Log File 38,970 100% 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 6.15% 673

2 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/ 5.89% 645

3 http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ robots.txt 5.7% 624

4 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/ 5.11% 559

5 Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/econhome.htm 4.53% 496

6 Forestry Sciences Lab., RTP, NC
http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ 3.94% 431

7 Publications of the Forest Economics Research Work Unit, USDA-FS-SRS
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/research/reports.htm 3.61% 395

8 Timber Price Reports via These Links
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/index_b.htm 3.25% 356

9 Timber and Log Price Reports - Links to Information on the Web
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/prices/index_t.htm 2.93% 321

10 An examination of the relationships between hardwood lumber and stumpage prices
http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/wgl981.htm 1.34% 147

Total For the Pages Above 42.49% 4,647

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/misc/jde001.pdf 366 15.57% 37

2 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/mlg001.pdf 300 12.76% 54

3 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/fpei/fpei57.pdf 194 8.25% 43

4 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/rjm001.pdf 178 7.57% 20

5 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/scfer/scfer81.pdf 117 4.97% 13

6 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/misc/wgl981.pdf 110 4.68% 23

7 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/scfer/scfer82.pdf 104 4.42% 19

8 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/scfer/scfer80.pdf 68 2.89% 27

9 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/scfer/scfer76.pdf 67 2.85% 17

10 http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/pubs/fpei/fpei60.pdf 66 2.8% 10

Total For the Files Above 1,570 66.8% N/A

Most Active Countries

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Most Active Countries

Countries Visitor Sessions

1 United States 10,029

2 Canada 185

3 UK 136

4 AU 126

5 Japan 54

6 Singapore 50

Total 10,700

Organization Breakdown

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Organization Breakdown

Summary of Activity for Report Period

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Summary of Activity for Report Period

Average Number of Visitors per day on Weekdays 254

Average Number of Hits per day on Weekdays 1,773

Average Number of Visitors for the entire Weekend 364

Average Number of Hits for the entire Weekend 1,641

Most Active Day of the Week Wed

Least Active Day of the Week Sun

Most Active Day Ever September 18, 2000

Number of Hits on Most Active Day 4,455

Least Active Day Ever August 04, 2000

Number of Hits on Least Active Day 166

Most Active Hour of the Day 11:00-11:59

Least Active Hour of the Day 05:00-05:59

Summary of Activity by Time Increment

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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 6,748 61.71%

2 pages 1,803 16.48%

3 pages 655 5.98%

4 pages 504 4.6%

5 pages 238 2.17%

6 pages 162 1.48%

7 pages 145 1.32%

8 pages 94 0.85%

9 pages 76 0.69%

10 pages 74 0.67%

11 pages 51 0.46%

12 or more pages 385 0.34%

Totals 10,935 100%

Top Referring Sites

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Top Referring Sites

Site Visitor Sessions

1 http://www.rtp.srs.fs.fed.us/ 4,556

2 No Referrer 4,380

3 http://google.yahoo.com/ 568

4 http://www.google.com/ 398

5 http://www.go.com/ 397

6 http://search.msn.com/ 388

7 http://www.altavista.com/ 337

8 http://aolsearch.aol.com/ 263

9 http://38.185.149.20/ 257

10 http://search.aol.com/ 164

Subtotal for the Referring Sites Above 11,708

Total for the Log File 11,708

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 289 9.39%

2 lumber prices 86 2.79%

3 hurricane hugo 46 1.49%

4 conjoint analysis 38 1.23%

5 log prices 32 1.03%

6 comparative advantage 28 0.9%

7 timber price 27 0.87%

8 forest economics 24 0.77%

9 forest management 21 0.68%

10 canadian exchange rate 18 0.58%

11 forest fragmentation 17 0.55%

12 timber mart south 16 0.51%

13 logistic regression 15 0.48%

14 social impact assessment 15 0.48%

15 ohio timber prices 14 0.45%

16 standing timber prices 13 0.42%

17 appalachian highlands 13 0.42%

18 forest protection 13 0.42%

19 tropical rain forests 12 0.38%

20 hardwood lumber prices 12 0.38%

Total Found for the Phrases Above 749 24.34%

Total of Phrases Found in the Log File 3,077 100%

Most Used Browsers

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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 3,050 32.02% 281

2 Gulliver 2,079 21.82% 84

3 FAST-WebCrawler 824 8.65% 125

4 Slurp.so 824 8.65% 770

5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; Site Server 3.0 Robot) GSA 794 8.33% 16

6 Scooter 692 7.26% 86

7 Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex) 349 3.66% 197

8 DIIbot 260 2.72% 5

9 InfoSeek Sidewinder 208 2.18% 56

10 Aranha 153 1.6% 0

11 ArchitextSpider 70 0.73% 66

12 oBot ((compatible;Win32)) 59 0.61% 2

13 GentleSpider 55 0.57% 8

14 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; MSIECrawler; Windows 95) 30 0.31% 30

15 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; MSIECrawler; Windows NT) 16 0.16% 3

16 Kenjin Spider 13 0.13% 2

17 fastlwspider 11 0.11% 1

18 Linkbot 8 0.08% 5

19 W3CRobot 6 0.06% 2

20 KIT-Fireball 5 0.05% 5

Total For Spiders Above 9,506 99.81% 1,744

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