I’ve just been having a nosey through the Google Analytics readouts for Rifter Drifter and I thought I’d share some of the things it has taught me. If you don’t like random numbers and statistics then you should probably stop reading here.
- 10,829 people visited the site in January (161% more than typical for this size of site, according to Google). That’s 350 a day!
- With that said, I’ve and 986 visitors today thanks to a link on Eve Online’s official Facebook page. Before that my best was 389 when I posted the nullsec politics primer.
- The average readers spends just under three and a half minutes here and looks at 1.57 pages.
- 40% of visitors are here for the first time meaning 60% of you came back for some reason.
- On that note 11% are here for their second time, 7% for their third, etc, etc, down to 1.5% of you who have been here in excess of 200 times. Please stop stalking me! (In retrospect that crazy visitor is probably me, I should tell Google my IP.)
- Most visitors are, predictably, from the USA followed by the UK. It seems I’m popular in Scandanavia too with Sweden, Finland, and Norway in the top 10. It would be interesting to compare this to CCP’s numbers from one of the CSM elections.
- I’ve had sixteen visits from Iceland (Hi CCP!) but 24 from Lithuania, 22 from Malaysia, and 19 from Argentina. I’m going to have to whore myself out to the Devs more, it seems.
- 3% of visitors are using an iPhone and most of those are on Verizon or O2 – yes, Google knows everything about you. Can I have one, please?
- There are still 168 people out there who get their Eve fix over dialup.
- 25% of visits are made directly (through RSS readers, I guess) and 27% from search engines. 7.5% of visitors went to my old site first before being redirected.
- Most people got here by Googling “Rifter Drifter” but “rifter guide” and “Hulkageddon” were both pretty popular.
- 56 people who got here were looking for Skira Ranos while only 14 searched for me by name
- Star Defender, Spectre, 00Sage00, Kane Rizzel, Mynxee, and Helicity send me a load of traffic so here are reciprocal links for them.
- The most popular page is, not surprisingly, the Rifter Guide. My null sec stories seem to be incredibly popular, especially the politics primer, and the Pirate Academies post remains a favourite, too.
I’m pretty sure that none of you care about any of this but I found it kind of interesting. That and it was far more fun than what I’m actually supposed to be doing.
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Uncategorized February 1st 2010
February 1st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Hm I use Cystats for mine…I seem to have more hits …but less readers so who knows for sure. I use it to see what people are readings etc…
February 1st, 2010 at 5:59 pm
I've got no idea how Google calculates its visitor numbers, IP address I guess. The total number of page views per day is about 475 and as far as I can tell this doesn't include the RSS feed. Maybe I should use Feedburner to actually measure how often my feed is hit.
February 1st, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I believe GA takes into account your IP when updating your stats. Even if it didn't, with your numbers you are looking at less than 1% of the visits being attributed to you.
And you are correct, RSS feeds aren't counted use Feedburner to keep track of that number
February 1st, 2010 at 7:27 pm
FeedBurner is now up and running and a 301 redirect has been set up so I don't have to go get people to change their feed links.
February 1st, 2010 at 7:46 pm
GA is definitely a fun tool to play with. If you clickthrough on the map you can even see the specific cities where people have visited you from as well.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Good idea on posting your GA stats – I may do the same.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Wensley — from alliance grunt to number cruncher in one fell swoop
February 1st, 2010 at 8:55 pm
So secretly you’re not leaving to play WoW at all but instead using GA to stalk your readers and watch them cry about you scamming them again? Bad man. I like your style.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Well… it was more fun than the RL numbers I was supposed to be crunching and I’d run out of spreadsheets for carebearing.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:07 pm
how many people from Belgium
February 1st, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Hmm I might also install google analytics, feedburner shows 98 readers or something but I only get 40-50 hits a day on my blog.
I should really improve my writing style though.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:16 am
Pff… I never went to play WoW. That game is lame.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:32 am
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:33 am
93, apparently.