iPhone: Web traffic spike
Posted Jul 4, 12:08 PM in Apple by Scott Conley
Well, it’s official. Camping out for iPhone is by far the most popular content to ever grace these electronic pages. Despite Feldt’s suggestion that I will not be blogging until I camp out again, I expect to put a few more things out there of my more traditional flava until football season starts. (At that time cocooning myself in the rich video and still photographs of all things Gators, of course!)
Today’s topic, however, is a quantified thank-you to all of you who provided me with an audience over the past week. I received a huge amount of interest in my posts, and a few kinds words thrown in, too. To let you fully appreciate what kind of impact you’ve all had on my week, I thought I’d share the impact you’ve had on my website.
I have been running Google’s Analytics on the site since its inception a little over a year ago, and rarely has the data produced anything of interest. However, people came out of the woodwork Thursday to read about my iPhone adventure. Here’s the obvious graph.. Web traffic over the past 30 days:
14to9 web traffic from June 5 to July 5, 2007
This image pretty much tells the story, and also reminds me that there are only a few of you reading this by now- I can be slack off again with my grammar! That tailing-off means that within mere days, it will again be Caryn, Rob and Matthew trawling monthly for non-existent updates :)
The regional distribution of traffic was interesting, too. Even though you can’t buy or use an iPhone anywhere outside of the United States, we had a lot of international traffic:
America, Eff Yeah!
The data breaks down much further. The South American visits were mainly Brazilian (31 visits- thanks Tania!) with a few from Argentina (4) and Ecuador (1). The European traffic was English (55) and German (18), and we had our first ever traffic from Latvia (2). My guys in India (26) must have been banging the drum, too.
The US data breaks down by state:
14to9 Web traffic by state, June 4 to July 4, 2007
Nothing surprising here. (New Yorkers are interested in other New Yorkers camped out at a New York store.)
Analytics also provides neat ‘sourcing’ information. Which is to say, how did visitors to 14to9 find the site? Well, this data is split into two camps: referrals and searches. Referrals are generated when someone gets here by clicking on a link somewhere else. These are our top referrers over the past week:
Number One is ‘direct,’ which means that the vast majority of you came by entering 14to9.org into your browser. Sweet. But sweeter still was the ‘loser’ link we got on Fake Steve Jobs’ blog, drawing another 350 folks to visit. Feldt, Jay, and Keane all reprazentin- but where the hell is Geoff? I suppose he’s still working on that monster update. He told me earlier that it’d be 452 days in the making, so get ready, World!!
The best table in the whole report, in my opinion, is the search keys data. This is essentially what people typed into Google that led them to your front door. Get a load of this:
Yes, I checked. 14to9 is the #5 hit for a Google search on ‘Joel Collamer’. Joel, if you’re reading this, you need a new agent.
I leave the search terms ‘garnold king’ to your own imagination and exercise.
Finally, this chart just caught my eye:
Lots of one-and-dones (57%, apologies for cutting it off), but how about you diehards visiting 9 to 14 times? Coincidence, do you think? 9to14?
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robfromtheUK
Saturday, July 07 2007
Saturday, July 07 2007
You came across well on the Beeb’s Click programme. Just reading your blog and can comprehend why it might be difficult to be too positive. Let’s hope Apple will choose its’ partners well here in the UK – Orange hopefully – what a coup that would be – Apples & Orange
Scranky
Saturday, July 07 2007
Saturday, July 07 2007
Hey Rob, thanks for the word. I am hoping that I don’t embarrass myself with one of the world’s few remaining credible journalism brands.
Word is that it’s Vodaphone on deck for the UK..
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