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Weird Moments in Web Analytics: January 2008 |
by Jason Rosenbaum :: Filed Under Special Topics :: February 2nd, 2008 @ 3:42 pm EST
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I know, I skipped December for some reason. But no matter. I’m back with this month’s strange statistics about you that we at The Seminal measure with our own private surveillance apparatus we like to call Google Analytics.
- We write about South America a fair amount, mostly about Venezuela. However, we get most of our South American traffic from Argentina and Brazil. In fact, our Venezuela traffic declined this month. They must not like what we have to say…
- Middle Eastern traffic continues to surge forward, with triple digit surges from Iraq and Iran in particular. Welcome!
- Congressman and bureaucrats, and Presidents, or at least the people who work for them, read The Seminal. We’ve had 40 visits from the House of Representatives, 28 visits from the Senate, and visits from various agencies like the EPA, Supreme Court, Census Bureau, and the Library of Congress. We’ve also had visitors from embassies like Japan. Nobody from the White House though. It’s very interesting for me to know people like this are reading what I write.
- Of traffic we receive from social networks, StumbleUpon is by far the best, with more times spent on our site, more pages per visit, and lower bounce rate. I’ve said it before, but I love StumbleUpon!
- And yes, we have again increased our traffic for the egypt sex keyword, as mentioned in earlier posts. By linking to egypt sex as my hyperlink’s answer text, we’ll see if we can keep that trend going and lock up the entire market.
That’s all for this month’s look into the weird world of web analytics. See you in March!
