It’s been just over a month since I launched the site. Since I’m addicted to site statistics, I thought I would share mine.
I check on my site stats almost every day. I’m pretty sure everyone has heard of Google Analytics, but if you haven’t it is the ultimate site statistics tool. I gives detailed site statistics on just about everything you can think of.
Quick Look:
- 4,696 page views
- 2,211 visits
- Visitors from 84 countries!
- The majority of visitors used Firefox at 51.02%
- Most popular blog post “Book Review: The Smashing Book” with 924 page views
You will notice 2 spikes in the “Visits” chart image below. The first one is from when EEInsider.com posted a link to my site. The second is from Smashing Magazine tweeting a link to my Smashing Book Review. I would like to thank both of those sites for the shout outs. I am also very pleased to see that the majority of my visitors are using good standards compliant web browsers. I assumed this would be the case with my target audience though.
I’m relatively pleased with the results. I haven’t attempted fully advertising the site and don’t plan on it for a while. I would like to play around more and get a better feel for blogging first. If anyone is curious and would like me to post any more stats, just let me know!
4 Comments
Very nice!
I also want to start a blog sometime soon. I’m glad I found this blog before you started to promote it very heavily, it will be interesting to see the process.
Your bounce rate is over 50% and average visit is under 2 minutes. I don’t think that is very good when you’re dealing with a blog.
I think you have a nice blog here; I am not trying to be rude just sharing how I would be looking at the statistics. Visits are great but the bounce rate and time of stay should be relative to what you’re offering.
Rob,
Thanks for your thoughts. I’m subscribed to and view many blogs myself and most of the time I get to articles through my rss feeder. I’ll link straight to the article, read it, and leave the page. I assume other people view blog articles similarly which would make a slightly higher bounce rate.
I also don’t think an almost 2 minute “Time on Site” is that bad. Most of my articles probably take less than 2 minutes to read, and as an average number, it doesn’t seem bad to me.
I do appreciate the comments. I’m new at this and I always welcome opinions. If you have any data or sources on what is considered “good” statistics for a blog, feel free to post them.
Its always awesome when someone like smash magazine promotes on of our articles. I´ve been promoted as well by SM and Christmas, with an list about Christmas… they´ve made a RT and in a few minuts i got my Brand-with exceeded :D
Lovely time!! always give us a nice feeling to continue this digg around the design community