The reach of "From the Land of Sky Blue Waters"
Just want to give you guys an update on how far our reach is with this blog. Through this analytics tool from Google that I installed I am able to see the states and countries (down to the city level) of where we are changing lives (well, not so much 'changing lives' but where people have at least hit our site and then, apparently, immediately 'bounced' out.)
We have hits from 6 other countries: Germany, Spain, Austria, Australia, Netherlands, and Canada.
Within the U.S., aside from Minny, Georgia, Cali, and Illinois, we have hits from: New York, Michigan, Tennessee, New Jersey, Wyoming, and Arizona.
We have a total of 408 'page visits' (and 907 'page views') with people (probably us) doing an average of 2.22 pages/visit, spending an average of 6 minutes 10 seconds on the site, 11.03% of the visits are new visits, and a 51.23% 'bounce rate' (meaning people leave the site from the opening page.)
Of the 408 'page visits' - 328 (80.39%) are coming in from 'referring sites' (basically us going through blogger) 68 (16.67%) from direct traffic, and 12 (2.94%) from search engines. I don't really know what that all means as I am just starting to get at what the analytic tool is telling us and I think the bulk is obviously us but it is interesting to note that there have been 4 referral visits coming from CNN.com and apparently someone searched "Christie Brinkley" and went to our site (that's all LH.)
So, at the end of the day are we changing the world? I say 'yes.' Whose world are we changing? Looks like ours. But it is pretty cool that 2 people in Germany went to our site (granted they most likely didn't understand a thing.
Blog on my friends. Blog on.
We have hits from 6 other countries: Germany, Spain, Austria, Australia, Netherlands, and Canada.
Within the U.S., aside from Minny, Georgia, Cali, and Illinois, we have hits from: New York, Michigan, Tennessee, New Jersey, Wyoming, and Arizona.
We have a total of 408 'page visits' (and 907 'page views') with people (probably us) doing an average of 2.22 pages/visit, spending an average of 6 minutes 10 seconds on the site, 11.03% of the visits are new visits, and a 51.23% 'bounce rate' (meaning people leave the site from the opening page.)
Of the 408 'page visits' - 328 (80.39%) are coming in from 'referring sites' (basically us going through blogger) 68 (16.67%) from direct traffic, and 12 (2.94%) from search engines. I don't really know what that all means as I am just starting to get at what the analytic tool is telling us and I think the bulk is obviously us but it is interesting to note that there have been 4 referral visits coming from CNN.com and apparently someone searched "Christie Brinkley" and went to our site (that's all LH.)
So, at the end of the day are we changing the world? I say 'yes.' Whose world are we changing? Looks like ours. But it is pretty cool that 2 people in Germany went to our site (granted they most likely didn't understand a thing.
Blog on my friends. Blog on.
3 Comments:
Where else are people going to get links to stories and videos from the Star and Trib, ESPN and youtube? I mean except from going to those sites. Plus, my grammar mishaps have to be good for a few laughs around the water cooler. Kudos to all, especially Jan for setting the whole thing up.
If we just did this verablly we could run circles around 90% of the moirning radio shows out there. Just looking for opportunities to grow.
January 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Probably a good thing the analytic tool doesn't have the ability to give us the percentage of outside visitors mistakenly thinking this site has something to do with beer, classic television jingles, or animated bears before they actually visit.
As long as no one from whomever owns the Hamms intellectual property rights ever shows up here. I could envision a "Cease and Desist" comment coming in that event.
Unrelated note, but this is as good a place as any. If ever there were a time to voluntarily watch a women's tennis match, tonight would be the night at the Australian Open finals. You can tell your wife it's all about the tennis. Anyway, we all know how attractive Maria Sharapova is. If you don't follow the sport, however, let me just say, OMG, Ana Ivanovic is so much hotter. No contest. You guys know me, I'm not one to sit around and drool over 20-year olds, but this woman is seriously smokin'. The two of them on the same court should be illegal. They'll be watching women's tennis in prison common rooms tonight.
January 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM
I would hate to be the 'fresh meat' in those prison common rooms following the match.
January 25, 2008 at 10:39 AM
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