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In a 60 minute period yesterday morning, 44 different people (meaning, users with different IPs) read the page for at least a minute. (It's possible someone from Oilmont MT read the page at home and then 55 minutes later also logged in from the bar's dialup PC, but not likely.)
44 people in one hour. As a group, they viewed 123 pages. Most folks usually only view one page, the main page. You can scroll down and see the last 2-3 days worth of posts, and anyone regular rarely seems to page around much.
44 people in one hour.
Now, those 44 people, who are they? Where are they from? Well, 38 were from the US. 4 were from Canada, eh? Some person in Germany. Another in Australia. (Generally, Canadian readers run around 10%. The UK runs around 4%, and these numbers are pretty stable.)
Of the US folks, there are a number of visitors who were the ONLY people in their states that visited in an hour's span. If I look at the numbers from some state, let's call it Originalia, I might only see one IP address, even if that person viewed a few pages. BUT NOBODY ELSE! In fact, in this one hour span from yesterday, 25 of the 38 US visitors were the only person in their state viewing the page.
It's in the bigger states where you will find multiple people. In something I might call Maximillia, three different logons, three different institutions, all hundreds of miles apart. (So much for outing each other.)
Firefox and Chrome were used by 80% of these visitors. More than 75% of viewers had a screen width of at least 1268 pixels. And 90 came directly to the page without having to search the damn thing on The Google.
And yes, I'm in my office waiting for students...
I hate to blow your mind, but I drove from Oilmont, through Originalia, and into Maximillia earlier today. And I hit refresh on my own article from 2013 44 times or 122 times or whatever the number is.
ReplyDeleteI've buffaloed you nerds big time.
I have the RSS feed in my Feedly, so I always end up coming straight to whichever page I'm reading from there. Does that show up as coming directly, or does it show up as being linked from Feedly?
ReplyDeleteGreat question. I didn't know, but found someone (some asshole, I originally typed) who did.
DeleteGenerally, RSS feeds contribute about 15% of our total hit count. AND, it just so happens, our free Statcounter hit counter is normally 15-20% lower than our Blogger counter. (In fact, I just did the math right now, ad the difference from each of the last 3 one hour periods is right on the money.)
That supports a long held theory (Cal says "belief") that Statcounter does not register any Atom, Feedly, Feedburner, access.
Well in that case I'll make it an especial point to click through instead of just reading on Feedly
DeleteOh no, please don't do anything special...the hit count thing is way in the past. We're down so much from the past that we've given up trying to get back. I mostly thought these stats were interesting because so much mail comes to us with people being concerned about being found out. If you're the only person in Colorado or Ohio or Nebraska reading the misery...who the fuck is going to find out???
DeleteLike Hiram, I find myself tempted to take a road trip, just for the sake of logging in from as many places as possible.
ReplyDeleteEither that, or take a tour of all the empty but unlocked tech-enabled classrooms in my university one lat evening or early morning. But I fear that sort of unusual activity might be noticed by the IT folks as well as Fab and Cal.