Today I’m celebrating the success of one full month in the blogging world! It’s been a lot of fun. It’s really helped me brush up on my dwindling writing abilities. I’ve also learned a lot about social networking and driving traffic to my sites. I’m obviously just one guy who tries to blog daily, yet I’ve been able to maintain over 200 unique hits per day. It’s pretty cool to be able to write something, and have people all over the world instantly access it.
Let me take you on a tour of the blog. I’ll try to provide some stats, as well as some personal favorites.
Stats from August 12th to September 12th
Blog Posts: 29
Days: 31
Total Unique Visits (Each visitor counted only once): 6,335
Average Unique Visits Per Day: 204
Busiest Day: Friday, September 12, 2008 (yesterday) – 727 unique views
Slowest Day: August 28, 2008 – 16 unique views
Average Time on Site: 1 Minute, 29 Seconds
Bounce Rate: 47% – This means 53% of visitors read multiple posts
Visits By Country (Starting August 21st)
United States: 2,796 visits / 75.18%
Canada: 237 visits / 6.37%
United Kingdom: 216 visits / 5.81%
Australia: 68 visits / 1.83%
Netherlands: 36 visits / 0.97%
Browsers
Firefox: 89.41%
Explorer: 8.36%
Safari: 1.24%
Other: 0.99%
Connection Speed
Cable: 47.86%
DSL: 24.33%
Unknown: 16.99%
T1: 9.41%
Dial Up: 1.26%
Operating System
Windows: 80.16%
Macintosh: 14.17%
Linux: 5.46%
Top Referral Sites
StumbleUpon: 2,855 visits
Reddit: 140 visits
MySpace: 126 visits
Digg: 65 visits
Most Viewed Pages
Know Thy Guido: 3,350 views / 139 per day average
Anti-Gravity Experiment: 663 views / 55 per day average
Know Thy Emo: 435 views / 54 per day average
Prayer Fails Again: 142 views / 6 per day average
Book Review: Holy Bible: 125 views / 5 per day average
Candy-Toss 2000: 102 views/ 4 per day average
Top 5 Clicked External Links
2004 Election Results Sorted By IQ
Top 10 Films To Blow Your Mind
Andy Bear Walters Memorial Site
Conclusion
This was actually pretty fun looking back and seeing what worked and what didn’t work. I think I’m gonna do this at the end of each month. As you can see, my “Know Thy Guido” blog hit StumbleUpon and took off. I credit this one post for driving the majority of my traffic to the site. From this post I’ve received subscribers, and many “clicks” to other posts. “Discovering” a site that gains popularity on StumbleUpon boosts your credibility, meaning future “Thumbs up’s” will show up more in the database. Social networking at it’s finest.
Tags: Networking, Review, Stats
September 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
YOU’RE LETTING THE CANADIANS READ THIS?!?!