Cav's Place

As the title states, this is just a post with the site’s statistics for the third year after I started over. The first column covers the entire period between September 21, 2015 and September 20, 2018, the second covers the period since the previous such post, September 21, 2017 to September 20, 2018, while the third is the usual one I add at the end, covering the last month, so starting on August 21, 2018 and also ending on September 20, 2018. Not that it should be of any interest to anyone, of course, especially considering the low number of visits, but I’m posting it nevertheless, largely for my own use.

[1] Obvious spam sources not listed, of course.
[2] Even though the help states that one’s own domain should automatically be added to exclusions, ever since switching to the new Analytics code I ended up with a number of entries listing my own site as source, some of those likely being direct hits from returning visitors who had last visited a different section and many being incorrectly registered new sessions from visitors who landed on the site index and then went to other sections. I have since manually added my domain to the exclusions list and this eliminated the issue, but the only thing I can do about the past statistics is what I’ve been doing since this started happening, which is to add these visits to the number of direct ones and leave the inflated numbers as they are otherwise.

I hope I didn’t make any mistakes. Of course, it is possible that something slipped through despite checking quite a number of times, but I’m definitely not going to go over it yet again now.
As for the records, those are unchanged, namely 169 visitors and 180 visits, set on the old site by that large spike on August 16, 2009, and 333 pageviews, set on March 3, 2013. And here are the usual graphs for visitors, visits and pageviews for this period as well.