Sunday, April 27, 2008

Totally Random Blog Statistics

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Every so often I like to post totally random blog statistics from Google Analytics (which is a de facto standard of measuring your web traffic). Since we've had a big upswing in readers the last month, I thought I'd take a peek to see what's been going on the past 30 days... as a statistician geek this stuff fascinates me.

The mixes have changed quite substantially since last we looked at end of last year [Dec 29: Worldwide Readership]

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Of course most of my traffic is from the US of Subprime: 83%
Next are our friendly Canucks up North: 6.7%

So about 90% come from those 2 countries... then another 118 countries have somehow found the blog (probably 90 by mistake, 25 countries only had 1 visit - probably looking for Jessica Alba pictures)... the remaining top 10 slots go to (in order): UK, India, Germany, Italy, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, and Hong Kong (Italians and Germans spend the most time per visit - probably needing to translate) ;)


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How does the US stack up? I always love this statistic, although most of it makes sense with where population centers are... I was surprised by Calgary as a top 10 candidate but hey, it's good times up there and they probably have a lot of money to invest and need ideas... outside of potash fertilizer. The top 10 makes up 20% of all visits (keep in mind, NYC and LA are so big they are broken into sectors via Google)
  1. Brooklyn (6% of all visits)
  2. NYC
  3. Long Island
  4. Monterey Park (L.A.)
  5. Chicago
  6. N/A
  7. Vancouver
  8. Jersey City
  9. Calgary
  10. Beverly Hills (L.A.)
Next 10: Alameda (San Fran), Bell Gardens (L.A.), Houston, San Fran, Gardena (L.A.), Los Angeles, Arlington (TX), London, San Luis Obispo (??? some corner of CA, not near any major city), Sunnyvale (San Fran/San Jose)
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Who spends way too much time on the blog (most time spent on each visit)? If you are from Rochester (I assume NY), College Park, Cedar Rapids, Thornhill? (Ontario?) - I need to suggest more hobbies for you... you are averaging an hour a visit. Or maybe the blog is your home page ;)

Looks like the average person is staying 5+ minutes now, which is also well above trend, but I assume most people are like me who have a window open, then move on to another window, without shutting down the previous window/tab so that can be misleading.

4 comments:

justflewin said...

Just an FYI. San Luis Obispo is in the corner of central coast California.

TraderMark said...

Thanks, I probably used the wrong nomenclature. That is not really a corner; I should of wrote sort of in no man's land - it appears halfway between SF and LA. I always wondered why CA did not build 2-3 more large cities in between... must be protected areas or something.

Risk Manager Jeff said...

That's me from Calgary. Yeah, i leave your window open on my work machine, and at home.

exactly.. too much oil, natgas, potash up here. I need to diversify!

justflewin said...

No problem. It is a nice area and you are right the place isn't really commercialized. But a nice place to goto to get away from the silicon valley or Los Angeles.

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