I’m tracking my blog visits with Google Analytics which makes even me somewhat of a number-cruncher. Amazing how such an analytics tool gives you more insight into how people get to your site and what they are interested in. A good half year into this blog, I thought I’d share some stats. (And to serve as a reminder, when I do this again in 6 months time.
In May, this blog had a total of 338 visits and 612 page impressions (according to Google Analytics). Not a huge figure, but not too bad for a more or less randomly run blog on stuff that’s more inspired by external impulses than intrinsic creativity so far. It may be impacted by the fact that Google Analytics apparently lost some user stats in early May and so far, they didn’t come back.
Most visitors came from Germany (269), with the UK and US coming in second and third. Austria was fourth. My best referrers were Google searches (68 visits), a trackback to wirres.net (45), direct references (44), some Google AdWord ads I played with (24) and blog buzz aggregator rivva.de (21). There was a peak after Next08, when I posted my thoughts on “Generation Why?” (122 readers) and a few lines on the conference.
On a side note, March and April had a lot more visits thanks to my post about sevenload’s relaunch communications. An original write-up that I did on that launch weekend end of may which got massive hits (419 hits in March alone). But this was an exceptional lucky shot (maybe not?).
So now June. Here’s the rundown.
Visitors: 529
Page impressions: 901
Most popular page: the blog homepage (381)
Most read post: Telewebber – Watching TV alone together (73), another piece on sevenload is second (62)
Country ranking: Germany (366), US (43), Switzerland (23), Austria (19), UK (14, hey! have you lost interest?)
That looks much more like a regularly read blog, doesn’t it? An average of 17.63 visitors a day really means something. For me at least. At this stage.
If you’ve come this far through this jungle of random figures, maybe you’d have a minute to share what you’d like to read more about on this blog and/or make suggestions how I can make this an even more worthwhile place on the web. Even if that’s just for maybe an additional hundred readers in July. Thanks!
