One Year On - Simply Google and Analytics

One year ago I published Simply Google, which was my attempt to expose  the hidden google information architecture. Since then I have been keeping the page up to date and have just added a co.uk version, so it seems like a good time to review the past year for Simply Google.

Simply Google was very popular on del.icio.us at the beginning and has just been added for the 3,000th time by nahtanoj04.

When I published the page last April I included the urchin code required for Google Analytics and here is the summary page from Analytics for the past 12 months:

The Visits and Page Views quadrant shows that I am currently getting 1,200 visits a day and my busiest period was when Charles Knight talked about SG in his Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list.

Over 50% of all visitors have been so the page before and this compares with a much lower rate of just 6% for this blog.

Geographically speaking, SG is most popular in the USA and UK, followed by Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Portugal. Over 3% of visits come from one location in Edinburgh in the UK and it seems that someone in the National Library of Scotland has put a link to Simply Google on their intranet homepage. If anyone can let me know how the NLS is using Simply Google then I would be extremely grateful.

Here is a list of the top 24 referrers and you can see that the NLS intranet appears at number 5. 

I have found the stats produced by Google Analytics very useful but it would be good if I could make them easily available publically.

So, Simply Google has now been here for a year and if people continue to use it I will ensure that it is still here in another year.