Big Liquid Egg Product is watching you
A couple days ago, the Reassembler was curious as to whether tagging a post with David Beckham would result in a traffic increase. (It didn’t.) That gave me the bright idea of posting about this site’s web stats and visitor profile. You know, because it’s so compelling. A month or so ago, I signed up with Performancing Metrics–they have a plethora of information, and you other bloggers may like to check it out. And don’t worry about being “spied” on; it’s not like I can get your home address or credit card number. Yet.
Searches:
There’s a good degree of interest in Manuel Uribe, the world’s fattest man.
Despite mentioning Jared from Subway only once in passing, people occasionally stumble their way here looking for him.
A few people got here via “400 lbs man”.
In other words, Liquid Egg Product is a good source for news about the ridiculously obese.
Computers you use:
As expected, IE is the dominant browser, with Firefox a significant minority. Almost everyone uses Windows.
A screen resolution of 1024×768 is more popular than all the others combined. One of you uses 1900×1280, and I think I know who it is. I’m curious to find out your monitor size.
Worldwide reach:
Most visitors are American (also very expected). Other countries represented are Canada, Singapore, Spain, Germany, Italy, India, Venezuela, Australia, Great Britain, Portugal, and Malaysia.
One of the most interesting things, though, I’ve found is this: I don’t seem to have a good handle on people’s tastes. Some of the posts I find most compelling generate little traffic, but other posts that (in my estimation) are dreadfully mundane gather more interest.
(CLARIFICATION: Did that last paragraph made it sound like I was disappointed or something? This is definitely not the case. It was more a curiosity than anything.)
Hold the phone on Becks - today traffic is through the roof (as previously noted, I have a low roof). Can’t exactly tell why as of yet, as Wordpress offers really rudimentary info. I’ll check it Performancing, thanks.
My own tastes, like yours, don’t always correspond to the mainstream. So I have a prurient interest in how the Internet machine works, and to understand it I occasionally try to manipulate it…ergo the Beckham tag.
Comment by Derek Slater | 23 July 2007
as for the posts you expect the most from getting the least, and the boring mundane crap getting the most ressponse, that is the way of it. i felt that way when i annotated a chess game in the style of h.p. lovecraft. i figured it would go over pretty well, hardly a peep. happens all the time, and the only explanation i can come up with is…the good posts are so good, there is nothing to add to it, and leaving the ubiquitous “great post” seems innadequate, so people read and let it stand. the less perfect posts get the resoponses cause people can improve and add insight and such. turns out there be lurkers who read and enjoy and appreciate what you have to say but remain silent for whatever reasons.
Comment by chessloser | 23 July 2007
i wanted to add…don’t worry about people’s tastes. you can’t please everyone, and when you try, you don’t write in “your voice” and it comes out disengenuous. write what you want, how you want, for you. the people will find it and come to it, and those that don’t like it, well, you are not for them…
Comment by chessloser | 23 July 2007
I concur. just because your blog is publicly accessible doesn’t mean it’s meant to be appealing to the public - and trust me that is high praise when “publicly appealing” means celebrity fashion blunders and who is whose baby daddy.
I’ll take your grilled cheese over pig swill any day.
Interesting, isn’t it? It makes me happy we’re kind of against the stream. Except for me and my harry potter of course.
Comment by annie | 23 July 2007
1900×1280 would be a 24 inch monitor
I also use a 37″ LCD, but that one uses 1920×1080
Comment by Allen | 24 July 2007
Derek: So it did make a difference! I wonder about the couple day delay, though. It seems like you’d get the spike immediately, unless something new happened with Beckham.
Chessloser: Good stuff. It seems like blogging specifically to attract people would take a lot of the fun out of it.
Annie: Couldn’t agree more with not worrying about public appeal. We’ve got to IM soon, but it’ll be hard for me this week.
Allen: Thought it was you. My mere 22″ makes me feel inadequate.
Comment by Donnie Briggs | 24 July 2007
Well, traffic remains a mystery. Although I had a (relatively) huge spike, no single search/tag/link emerged as the point of origin. So in retrospect I can’t say for sure it was the Beckham thing. But then what? Maybe all my friends were on vaca the week prior.
As for the time delay, shrug, I think most reassembler visitors are at work. Activity drops off every Saturday and ramps up again Monday morning.
Comment by Derek Slater | 25 July 2007