Gimme Some Stats… Stat!

Published by Jarred on February 28, 2008 in Tropophilia. View Comments

It’s hard to believe, but we’re approaching the two-month mark for Tropophilia. Feels like much longer than that to me, actually. I’ve spent a little time looking at some of our stats this afternoon (yes, work is that slow today), and thought I’d share some of the more interesting ones with you. If you’re interested, make the jump.

Since launching at the beginning of January:

  • We have published 77 posts (well… 78 now!) and received 234 comments.
  • Our most popular post has been Steve Jobs on Reading (422 views), followed by the recent post on invisibility in instant messaging (125) and Dan’s early post about Starbucks and the Information Economy (110).
  • There have been 2,670 visitors with a total of 5,631 pageviews. That averages to about 63 visitors and 121 pageviews per day (that’s 1.9 average pageviews per visitor).
  • Our best day ever was our first one, January 7, when we logged 412 pageviews. February 5 saw 226 pageviews when the reading conversation was in full swing.
  • The average visit duration is 2 minutes and 31 seconds. (The real average is probably much higher, since visit duration can only be calculated if you click something on the site. If you leave from the same page you entered the site without clicking, we won’t know how long you stayed.
  • 81% of you come from North America, 7% from Asia, 6% from Europe, 3% from South America, and 1% from Oceania/Australia. After the U.S. (75.3%), our visitors come from Canada (8.2%), the U.K. (5.2%), and India (2.1%).
  • 86% of our visitors are PC users, 10% are Mac users, 2% are Linux users, and 2% are unknown. (*moment of silence for this depressing statistic*)
  • 49.5% of our visitors use Firefox, 44.4% use Internet Explorer, and 3% use Safari. The holdouts use Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera.
  • The top referrer for our site (besides Google Reader and Gmail) has been Rachel’s blog. Thanks! I’m happy to report that links to her blog are the most clicked external link from Tropophilia. You scratch our back…
  • Interestingly, the top search term that has led to our blog is “martin luther king”, leading to a somewhat inane post on MLK Jr.’s birthday recapping our first few weeks of posting. Other popular search terms included “tropophilia” (duh), “starbucks trends”, and “steve jobs reading”.

Cool, huh?

If you enjoyed this post, you might also like:

- "Rice Stats: Exploring Information Gluttony and Apathy", posted by Jarred on January 29, 2008

- "Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day", posted by Jarred on January 21, 2008

- "Welcome to Tropophilia", posted by Jarred on January 5, 2008

- "Real-Time Change", posted by Jarred on February 6, 2008

- "A Note To Our Readers", posted by Taylor on June 2, 2008

  • And if you want to see how our stats compared to all of WordPress (our publishing service): http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/03/03/february-w.... Pretty nuts.
  • Elliott
    Ya, to confirm, you can export a blogger blog to wordpress. If you go into wordpress, then manage, then import, you will see a blogger import button. Just input your details and you are all set! It even imports things like categories, which is very useful. I just used it to move some stuff from my old blogger blog to my wp blog.
  • P.S. -- After some more thinking and researching, I'm pretty sure that the continent, PC v. Mac, and browser statistics are based on the last 100 visitors only -- so that's not necessarily representative of our entire historical readership. Everything else, however, covers the entire two months.
  • Yeah, Google Analytics is really powerful. I would have preferred to use it but Wordpress doesn't allow it (WordPress doesn't allow a lot of fun stuff, actually). FYI, if you ever want to switch, WordPress has a post import function so you can move almost all your content over to a new WordPress blog, I think. Kinda doubting funkmagnet is taken. :P
  • Hey, cool! I've been thinking of doing a similar study on my blog, with stats and all that. Apparently, I'm big in France. I use Google Analytics and it's a bit confusing to work with--at this point, I'm kind of bummed I didn't start with WordPress.

    Hurray for interblog linky webs!
  • Jarred, fun fact: when Sergey Brin and Larry Page first wrote the algorithm that powers Google, they called it "BackRub" because your site's pagerank is determined largely by what other sites link to you.
  • Elliott
    Cool. Thanks for the help :-)
  • @Elliott: We use both the native stats and SiteMeter to track our stats (http://www.sitemeter.com).
  • Elliott
    Do you use wordpress's native blog stat service, or do you use something different?
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