Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Jun 2005	1145	2645	7484	100504	319.53 MB

What does this information tell us?

For many visitors, this information will be complicated to understand. This shows that in June, we had a total of 1,145 different visitors to the site, who made a total of 2,645 visits to the site. They looked at 7,484 pages. The total number of hits refers to everything on a page. For example, if there is 20 images on a page this will count as 20 hits. During June, the site had 100,504 hits in total using 319.53MB.

 

Busiest Day:

The busiest day of the month was no surprise - June 23rd, when the fixtures were released. Flying High was one of the first Internet sites to have the information available to fans, at just 4 minutes past 10. For exactly this reason, Thursday was the busiest day for visits to the site.

 

Busiest Time:

Flying High receives most of its visits between the hours of 11am and 2pm. This is when most fans would be on their lunch breaks from work, and would have a chance to browse the Internet. During the month, over 1600 pages were vied between this time period. We are also very pleased to announce that there is not one hour in the day when the site does not receive a visit! The time with the least number of visits is 6am, when over a whole month only 96 pages were views at this time.

 

Average Time Spent On The Site:

Depending on what the visitor is looking for, they will take different amounts of time. For example, to view a single news report would only take a short amount of time. On average, visitors are spending 8 minutes on the site. The actual time each visitors spends on the site is shown below:

Time Spend On Flying High	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	1856	70.1 %
30s-2mn	230	8.6 %
2mn-5mn	113	4.2 %
5mn-15mn	71	2.6 %
15mn-30mn	48	1.8 %
30mn-1h	141	5.3 %
1h+	186	7 %

 

Most Popular Page:

The most popular page to be viewed in June was the Downloads page. Once the fixtures were released, we offered a new download that would put all the fixtures into your Outlook Calendar. This proved extremely popular with over 366 views in just 7 days.

The second most popular page was also no surprise. Like all away fixtures during the season, a special edition Travel Zone was produced for the trip to Le Havre. The club is expecting up to 1000 fans to travel to the game, and at the time of writing up to 500 tickets have been sold already. The club contacted Flying High when they had the final confirmed details, and the this Travel Zone page could then be completed with their help. During June, it received 351 visits.

The most popular news story, receiving 173 views was our announcement that the first game of the season would be played away from home due to Brighton Pride 2005. We made this announcement just days before the fixtures were due to be released, and it made an instant impact.

 

Searching For Flying High:

The most popular search engine to link to Flying High is Google, referring over 75% of visitors who searched for information on the club. The most popular search phrase used this month to find us was "gonfreville l orcher." This referred to the stadium we would be playing at against French team Le Havre.

Externally, the most popular site we have been visited from is the current 'forum of choice' Brightonfans. In June, over 290 people visited us using the link on the forum.

Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
July 2005	2294	4791	10624	157813	417.10 MB

What does this information tell us?

The number of unique visitors in this month has doubled from the previous month (June) which is an excellent achievement. As the number of visitors increased, other aspects such as the number of visits made has also doubled. The number of pages viewed has not increased so dramatically however, showing that many visits were maybe people from another club looking at news stories (See below).

 

Busiest Day:

The busiest day last month (June) saw 325 people visit the site when the fixtures were released. This month (July) had once of the biggest news stories we have ever run on the site, attracting 918 people in one 24 hour period. This was with the breaking news that Adam Virgo was moving to Celtic. A number of Celtic Internet sites and message boards were using and linking to the reports we were featuring.

Another busy day which should receive a mention this month was 28th July - the day of the Harding tribunal. This saw so many fans trying to find out information that North Stand Chat, the most popular Brighton message board on the Internet had to go offline for around an hour between 5 and 6pm. After waiting all day for the news to be available, we finally received word about the decision and had a story online by 6:05pm. This received over 500 visits during the rest of the day.

 

Busiest Time:

Last month we revealed that most visitors come to the site between 11am and 2pm. This month has seen those hours stay busy, with an increase in visitors throughout the afternoon and evening. The quietest time is between 1am and 7am, when there has been 200 or fewer page views.

 

Average Time Spent On The Site:

Depending on what the visitor is looking for, they will take different amounts of time. For example, to view a single news report would only take a short amount of time. On average, visitors are spending 10 minutes on the site this month, up from 8. The actual time each visitors spends on the site is shown below:

Time Spent On Flying High	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	3646	76.1 %
30s-2mn	142	2.9 %
2mn-5mn	77	1.6 %
5mn-15mn	56	1.1 %
15mn-30mn	49	1 %
30mn-1h	372	7.7 %
1h+	449	9.3 %

Most Popular Page:

This month we have run a total of 27 news stories, with one standing out as the absolute winner - even receiving more views than the homepage, which is a hard task to achieve! As mentioned above, many Celtic websites were linking to Flying High, and this is the reason for the amazing number of views this page has had. Our Breaking News Story: Virgo going to Celtic received over 1150 views once it was released on 19th July! In comparison, the homepage only received just over 1020 views.

 

Searching For Flying High:

Flying High Fact: You can now search the website using the new search box down the left had side of the homepage!

The phrase used the most this month to find Flying High was 'Federico Turienzo'. This relates to the Argentinean striker McGhee was trying to sign during the month after his trial during the Pre Season friendlies. The player was not expected to sign after playing an 'average' game, however McGhee believes he will be a good addition to the team.

Google once again was the most popular search engine used, handling just over 85% of searches for the site. MSN, AOL and Yahoo have also been used this month to find the site.

The most popular external website to link to Flying High this month is once again Brighton Fans. However, now that North Stand Chat is back online this is quickly catching up.

Other teams that have been linking to Flying High include Le Havre (infohac message board) and Celtic (kerrydalestreet message board).

 

Other Interesting Facts:

A total of 272 different pages have been viewed this month out of a current total of 329 available on the site.

As of 1st August, there is a total of 1109 files on Flying High containing a grand total of 16,374 hyperlinks.

An estimated 82 people have added Flying High to their bookmarks this month - 3.5% of visitors.

Almost 90% of visitors to the site use Internet Explorer, with just over 6% using Firefox. One person has viewed the site from their mobile phone/PDA.

Just over 96% of visitors access the site using a Windows operating system. Less than 2% use a Mac, while others used include Sun Solaris and Linux.

Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth Aug 2005 2187 4583 11843 139117 526.96 MB

What does this information tell us?

The number of unique visitors has actually now levelled out. It is slightly lower than last month, however this can be expected as many fans will be away on holiday and returning to work, and might not have the time to visit the site during these busy periods. The number of visits has also slightly decreased, however this is not worrying becuase we still have a high number of pages viewed - a massive 11,843!

 

Busiest Day:

The 8th August saw the most visitors to the site this month - they came to see our Derby match report and pictures, the first game of the season. We also expect that a number of Derby fans visited the site to see the report, and this increased the number of visitors for that day. The average number of visits each day however was only 148.

 

Busiest Time:

Unlike other months, August has seen a very clear pattern for the busiest period. From 8am, the number of visitors slowly increases gradually until it peaks at 1pm - almost 1000 pages were viewed at this time. The number of pages then slowly decreases and levels off at around 6pm. At around midnight, the number of pages viewed then decreases again slightly and levels off again until 8am the next day.

 

Where is everyone from:

This month sees the introduction of a new section, which allows us to see where all the visitors are from. Although not fully operational until September, we can see fans are visiting the site from all over the world - literally! Obviously, the most visitors reside in the United Kingdom, however here are some other countries that fans who have visited us live: Poland, Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Canada, Finland, Israel, Japan, Greece, Gibraltar, Germany, Turkey and Thailand. What an amazing mix. We hope to increase the number of countries next month when we will be able to carry out a more accurate analysis.

 

Average Time Spent On The Site:

Last month fans were spending just under 10 minutes on the site at a time - this month we see an increase to just over ten minutes! Although not a massive achievement, the number of fans staying on the site longer is slowly increasing - see the table below for more information.

Time Spent On Flying High	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	3179	69.3 %
30s-2mn	266	5.8 %
2mn-5mn	125	2.7 %
5mn-15mn	105	2.2 %
15mn-30mn	78	1.7 %
30mn-1h	510	11.1 %
1h+	320	6.9 %

 

Most Popular Page:

As we mentioned earlier in the 'busiest day' section, the most popular page this month has been our Derby match report and pictures with almost 400 views. Also with news of Falmer on everyones minds as we come closer to the deadline, the Falmer Announcements page has also seen 318 visits.

Despite playing Plymouth only just before the end of the month, the number of views for the two reports by our guest writers Nick Turrell and Thimble Keegan for this match was well over the 200 mark for both.

 

Searching For Flying High:

Flying High Fact: You can now search the website using the new search box down the left had side of the homepage!

Once again, far out in front the term used the most to find Flying High was 'Federico Turienzo'. Although the use of BHAFC is forwarding more and more people to the site, specific terms are still the most common way of finding use on a search engine. Some phrases that have been used by fans this month to find us include 'Jake Robinson Football', 'Perry Digweed', 'Falmer Stunt' and 'McCammon'.

Google once again was the most popular search engine used, although we have seen the use of others such as MSN, AOL and Yahoo having an increased use. One interesting fact is that Voila, the English to French translation website used by fans of Le Havre is still being used to read pages from Flying High!

The most popular external website to link to Flying High this month is the message boards used by the 'Rivals' network. Before and after each match fans normally post a message about one of our previews or reports which interest fans from the opposite team as they want to know what we're thinking!

As mentioned earlier, the Plymouth reports were well read once released. One of the top referrers was PASOTI (Plymouth Argyle Supporters On The Internet). One of their fans posted two links, one to each of the match reports from their game. In particular, they asked Plymouth fans to concentrate on paragraph 3 from Thimble Keegans report.  This read "Now, if things were beginning to gel against the Lilywhites on Saturday then they certainly clicked into gear today. But as well as we played we should not take anything away from Plymouth's part in proceedings...They were bloody rubbish to put it simply. There have been rumblings of discontent coming out of Home Park and that would have been turned up a notch or 2 as they failed to beat a 10 man Hull City team on Saturday and at home."

North Stand Chat and Brightonfans were also both top referrers this month

 

Other Interesting Facts:

A total of 315 different pages have been viewed this month, an increase of 43 pages since last month!

As of 1st September, there is a total of 1160 files on Flying High (51 more than 1st August) containing a grand total of 18,159 hyperlinks. (1785 more than 1st August).

An estimated 141 people have added Flying High to their bookmarks this month - 6.4% of visitors.

This month has seen a slight increase in the number of visitors using Firefox, with the number using Internet Explorer slightly down from last month. One visitor has used Firebird (Old Firefox!), which others used include Konqueror and Lynx.

This month has also seen a decrease in the number of people using the Windows operating system to access the site, which the number using a Mac is slightly up. A number of fans use Linux, while one person has visited us using Sun Solaris and one using FreeBSD.

9326 files have returned a #404 error this month. This means files are missing from the server or have been misplaced, and the visitor will not see the page displayed correctly. If you ever find a problem on the site, please let us know so we can correct it as soon as possible.

There has been 203 attempts to reach forbidden areas of the site, such as password protected areas for administrators and directories that are not generally available to the public.