Statistics 2003
“No perspective without retrospective.” — Rolf Walter
The year 2003 is over — time for a brief review.
The highlight of 2003 was certainly when our website was recommended by Montblanc in August: Montblanc placed a link to our site. We thank Montblanc for the trust shown.
Apart from that, 2003 was an extremely successful year, at least as far as the visitor numbers of our website are concerned – they have grown considerably.
Total accesses to our website in 2003
| Total size of data transferred | approx. 16 GB (16,722,236 KBytes) |
| Number of visits | 73,739 |
| Number of pages viewed (page views) | 292,524 |
Thank you for your loyalty. We will continue to expand this website throughout 2004.
Notes on the user statistics shown above
Server log file:
When an internet user visits a webpage, a server log file is created on the server hosting the page. Various data are recorded in this file: the user's IP address, operating system, browser, time, page accesses and the duration spent on individual pages or the entire visit. The server log file also records how the user reached the page (e.g. through a search engine, a banner click, or by entering the address directly). The data is, of course, completely anonymous.
Visit:
A visit is defined here as a contiguous session of an internet user on the website.
What to keep in mind when interpreting server log files:
A principle of the internet is to minimise the amount of data transmitted. When a user accesses a website, the data is loaded and additionally cached on the access provider's server — for instance, if the user is a T-Online customer, the requested page is also cached on the T-Online server. The next user who wants to view that page is automatically served the data from the proxy server (in this example T-Online) rather than from the original site.
For that second user this has the advantage that the data does not need to be reloaded, so loading times are shorter. For the website operator, however, this caching on proxy servers is problematic, because they can no longer accurately determine how often a page or banner ad was actually viewed. The data stored in a server log file therefore cannot represent complete website usage — it only provides minimum values.