Thank you to all VinoCellar.com participants. Since opening our site to the public we have logged overTWO MILLION HITS!!!!

Here are some interesting statistics for everyone.

Hits Entire Site 2,007,993
Average Per Day 37,886

Page Views (Impressions) 470,611
Average Per Day 8,879

Visits 22,039
Average Per Day 415
Average Visit Length 00:26:17
Median Visit Length 00:11:04
International Visits 3.48%
Visits of Unknown Origin 14.94%
Visits from United States 81.56%
Visitors Unique Visitors 1,369
Visitors Who Visited Once 600
Visitors Who Visited More Than Once 769

24% of our Unique visitors have visited more than 10 times.
90% of our visitors are Returning Visitors.
10% are new visitors (this number is going up, which is great!)

The United States is the most active country. Then New Zealand, Canada, and Australia follow.

We have logged hits from over 20 states.

Aol.com is the most used to hit our site. Then followed by rr.com, pacbell.net, comcast.net, and AT&T.

Average Number of Visits per Day on Weekdays 415
Average Number of Hits per Day on Weekdays 37,886
Most Active Day of the Week Thu
Least Active Day of the Week Sun
Most Active Date January 08, 2003
Number of Hits on Most Active Date 74,647
Least Active Date November 19, 2002
Number of Hits on Least Active Date 82
Most Active Hour of the Day 14:00-14:59
Least Active Hour of the Day 04:00-04:59

36% of visitors browse 11 or more different pages.

Attempted Hackers made 6,872 hits.
This is the most common attempted hack:
http://www.vinocellar.com/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+ dir

http://forums.winespectator.com is the best referrer, followed by google.

90% of people use Internet Explorer. (Explorer 6 most popular)
6% use Netscape. (Netscape 7 most popular)
The rest use something else.

Ten different web spiders have visited us.

Windows 2000 is the most popular operating system. Followed by Windows 98, then Windows NT, then Windows ME. Macintosh makes up 0.68% of our hits.

So there are just some fun facts about our site. The traffic took a big dive during the holidays, but this last week has been our busiest ever!!

For the no computer guys,

What do you mean by "hackers" and "Spiders"?

A hacker is someone who up to no good, tryin' to make trouble in the neighborhood, if know what I mean.

Spiders are automated "agents" - programs developed to search the web for specific information. They "crawl through the web" - I suppose this is how they got their name.

Rev, are you using Webtrends?

That's what I thought. Who would hack a wine site? Odd Target.

Spiders also log information for the search sites.

Rev - this is really cool information! Thanks for sharing. Now don't go publishing how many times a day I hit the site.

Two things:

Hackers just like to "add another notch to their hacked sites belt" so they will attack anything.

The "attack" was from a M$ windows computer with some sort of virus. I see these all the time on my server. These virii made to exploit M$ IIS servers (which vinocellar is running). If you aren't running a Micro$oft server then you have no problem.

skwid, Microsoft dosen't have the only operating system vulnerable to hackers. Linux's "Apache" product has a number of holes as well. Even just the RFC for SNMP for example has a ton of holes.... that RFC is used in making most all Operating Systems.

Basically, these hackers are trying to get admin access to my server. Then once they have it, they run an FTP client and upload illegal files for other people to download. This uses my bandwidth and not the hackers. That's the most common thing they do. The second most common, is they run a program in the background that listens for commands from the hacker that he may issue at a later date. When the command is initiated, and the 100's of computers that the hacker has infiltrated hear the command... they all respond at once and can effectively "bomb" a site with hits, using up all the bandwidth, disabling regular users from getting to that site. It's a "denial of service" attack. There are many many others... but mostly they just want control of your computer to gain access to data stored on it, or gain access to the available Internet bandwidth of the PC.

While apache does have holes in it the accesses you show are specifically targetted at IIS. I've yet to see a virii launched from clients which is specific to apache.

Rev,

I'm curious -- is there a rank of which members have visited most often? I visit several times a day but I don't post too often. I'm just curious to see where my 'thirst' for knowledge ranks (pardon the pun)!

Great stats. Congrats to all.

skwid, I'm not going to debate with you which is better than what. I mearly was pointing out that no matter what the system, it has it's holes. In the end, it's a combined strategy of securing your operating system, along with secure programming, and a good firewall, is what it takes to keep a system safe, no matter what it is.

Kimber, while I do log everything that comes in and out, I don't necessarily know what IP address is who. (not yet)

That'd be a neat thing to see though. The moderators of this site might be on top. That's a good thing right?

I like kimber's idea. There is a way to track # of posts, is there also a way to track number of times a user has logged in? Or how many threads they have viewed?

So, under what criteria would we pop up on google? I tried wine and vino to no avail. Perhaps "wine forum"??

just curious