Analyze this for me pleez?

[280plus]

Yea, that stuff there is just from the ISP. Soon as Mr tuttle reappears we'll see which direction he wants to go. I thin he's off on vaca or assignment or something.

[Harold Tuttle]

google is fine but the gevario system is rather robust

you can click down the month and see hourly data graphs

the first day was me uploading and testing

then there was a delay as the DNS got hooked up

now its seeing ~300 hits as people find it.

getting those numbers upward would require either more dynamic content that has weekly updates or doing something viral

There also needs to be a web of sites that link to the pages to increase its google validity

[Scout26]

doing something viral

A youtube video of "A Fistful of Oboes" perhaps ?

 

[Monkeyleg]

Seriously, use google analytics.  Trust me, a lot easier to understand.

Google Analytics' numbers are also sometimes questionable. They use cookies to arrive at their numbers, where server-based stats programs such as SmarterStats (the one I use) use the log files, which are more accurate.

Google Analytics shows half the number of visitors that SmarterStats does.

There's also been some concern amongst webmasters (serious ones, not tinfoil hat types) that Google is using the data from Analytics for "traffic shaping" on sites. The idea is that Google decides that a certain site should have X number of visitors based upon criteria derived from Google Analytics, and moves the site's rankings up or down to achieve that level of traffic. At first it sounded paranoid, but there's been enough anecdotal evidence that now some well respected search engine analysts are considering the traffic throttling idea and the link to Google Analytics as a real possibility.

I haven't pulled the plug on Google Analytics, but I just might soon.

[280plus]

And there he is!  

yep, I did request that they all put a link on their pages. Whether they have or not is another thing. I haven't gone looking. I figure I'm not going to push the issue with them either way. There has been talk of the potential for some youtube video. We're putting out a call for oboes though so that is taking time.  

MY question is how are these visitors finding the site? Because they were looking for it or because they stumbled across it somehow randomly. Little of both probably?