Site Summary: August 2005
Filed in: Site News — September 6th, 2005
Note: From now on, the monthly post titled “Usage Summary” is changed to “Site Summary”. The change is to include more information rather than site traffic only.
August 2005 made a new traffic record. The RapidShare and hedgehog babies made up 25% of the site traffic. And, LiewCF.com was boingboinged because of the latter. It is my great birthmonth! 
Site Traffic
Usage summary for LiewCF.com (Quick help)
Monthly Totals
Bandwidth: 40GB+
Visits: ~233,000
Pages: ~600,000
Hits: ~5,830,000 (5.83 millions)
The traffic boost is basically due to the boingboig effect. Here is the daily usage for August 2005 to give your clearer image about the effect.
I am wondering why there is drop on 21st August (Sunday). 
Top Total Entry Pages
Top Search Strings
Adsense Earning
I was testing new ads layout but still manage to get 14% more than the total earning of July 2005. It is also the highest earning month so far.
What’s Next?
I doubt I will get the same traffic level as August 2005 in this month (September 2005), if without any popular_site effect. However, I will officially become full time blogger this month. You can expect more updates from me. Also, according to current trend, September 2005 will reach a new adsense earning record. 
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September 6th, 2005 at 11:33 am
Bandwidth: 40GB? really har? then how many bandwidth on your hosting package?
September 6th, 2005 at 11:41 am
Wow so good la you, your stats number is very high! Heh i see a trend on my AdSense as well, earning from it is higher than my salary!
September 6th, 2005 at 1:19 pm
Dear c-foos, please share share some tricks to the new comer la…
September 6th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
i’m so happy to hear that…liew, wish you’ll break another higher record in SEPTEMBER! Bring us more good newssssssss and more interesting updates.
I came to your site from the wordpress support forum when searching for a navigation bar; in the beginning, I think your site has too many ads which wasn’t too attractive to me; but your interesting contents and frequent updates made me impossible not to surf the net without surfing your site everyday now!!!!!!
September 6th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
wow. I am so happy for you. getting that boing boing traffic is great
September 6th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Thank you very much. I will write more good content.
September 6th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
I am a web hosting reseller
September 6th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
Tell us your secret, what is your key to getting so much traffic !
September 6th, 2005 at 5:35 pm
Hmm not bad. I suppose consistent rich content. The key to traffic is consistency!!. Or what do you say LcF?
hehehe 40gb a month, not bad.
September 6th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
good job, keep it up
September 6th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
WOW!………………can’t wait to see your september summary…..:) BTW, link to me laa……you have a high PR! Thanx……:)
September 7th, 2005 at 6:35 am
This isnt a fight or anything, but I’ve gotten over 425GB. Yeh, sites went down for like 2 days. But ohh well. That’s what I get for posting some awesome shit.
September 7th, 2005 at 11:32 am
What is the difference between hits and visits? And how can I check my hits?
September 7th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
you may refer to Webalizer Quick Help.
September 8th, 2005 at 7:11 am
Bank: Hits is the times people visit your site and refresh the page. Let’s say, If I was on your site and refreshed the page 10 times, that would be 10 hits. Lets say I refresh it 20 times, and visit 2 diffrent pages and 2 other pages. That would be 24 hits.
Visits: I think your referring to “Unique Visitors” which is IP based. All It is is it checks the IP off the visitor, and counts it as a unique visitor. So for every new IP, It’s a new unique visitor. If I refresh the page, It doesnt count as a new “Unique visitor” since my IP hasn’t changed or anything. If I went to browse your site with 5 diffrent proxies, that would be 5 unique visitors.
September 8th, 2005 at 11:20 am
unlike pages, hits actually counts requests on all files including html, images, javascript files, flash files etc.
and according to the webalizer help Lcf linked us, visits for each user is recounted every 30 mins for webalizer. personally i use shortstats ( http://www.shauninman.com/plete/shortstat/ ) to get daily unique visitors count
September 8th, 2005 at 11:22 am
forgot to mention, adbrite’s “Your Ad Here” link shows pretty accurate pages views and visitor daily unique visitors info too, for example: http://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=34322&afsid=1