March 30, 2010 by Bruce Hembd
Archived under: Technology & Digital Culture | Horn Matters
Site Stats; Thanks to our Readers
This chart roughly represents direct site traffic from the past week. One thing it shows is that readers who come to Horn Matters stick around for a while to to look around.
Last Thursday, we had a pretty epic day – 1,000 page loads! On most average days, visitors look at about 4 pages, and stick around for almost 5 minutes.
According to our Google Analytics, this is well above average.
Other random stats:
- almost 30% of visitors are new
- there have been just over 13,000 absolute unique visitors since our opening on September 1, 2009
- in that same time, there has been almost 160,000 page views
- 42% of visitors use the Firefox web browser, 28% Internet Explorer and 21% use Safari
- about 100 RSS subscribers, a handful of email subscribers and over 675 Facebook fans
Thank you readers for making our little French horn web site such a great success! Your readership and comments are very much appreciated.
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