I’m always curious what kind of traffic websites get beyond the ubiquitous digital counter at the bottom of web pages. After I began using Google Analytics (it’s free!) I realized how much statistics are available for websites.
Most of them are useless to me beyond the initial level of curiosity. Nonetheless, I do find it interesting to imagine someone from Sri Lanka, Qatar, Namibia, or anyone from the other over 126 countries that have stumbled to my site.
To everyone who has visited: Thank you!
I began this site to be able to keep a small blog and post my work. So far, besides putting out the ‘Cool Stuff‘ posts, that’s mainly what I’ve continued to do with this website. As I mentioned in my last post, that might be changing with me attending film school. This site might become more ‘bloggy,’ but I’m not sure.
The spike you see in the traffic was when my goofy Avatar video was ‘spotlighted‘ on YouTube’s homepage during the Oscar’s this year. That was the most traffic this site has seen in one day: 526 visits. The combined views from the short and long versions of that video have reached about 316,000 views so far.
The other two big traffic drivers of this site since then have been the bokeh tutorial and the chia fresca recipe.
Thanks everyone for visiting the site, the second year of this site should be interesting since I’ll be in film school . . .
This shows all the different 2,073 cities in the US where people have viewed my website.
People from 127 countries have visited this site over the last year.
Wow, average time on site is 2 min 30 sec.. Seems like people are blowing it a little pre-mature doesn’t it? Your right, analitics is fun!
How did you run analytics with this much detail? Cities the views came from and so on…?
WIth Google Analytics you place code, that they provide when signing up, right before tag in the html. So analytics is always technically ‘running.’ All I have to do is log into google.com/analytics from time to time and check in on what stats I’m curious about. For the cities for example, you can go to the ‘Visitors’ category > Map Overlay > choose a country (USA) > then click on City for the ‘Detail Level’ that is an option right under the map. Hope that helps!