Thursday, June 29, 2006
More nice stats......
I guess being a scientist I have a natural "love" for statistics, but the data you get to follow your own website is pretty impressive. Here's some of the breakdown only 2 days into it:
day 1: 80 unique visitors, 1,200 hits to view it
day 2: (and the official "stats" time is now only 7pm, so there's still another 5 hours left)
230 unique visitors, 6323 hits
That's 150 new visitors alone in the 2nd day, as well as 5,000 hits just in the 2nd day. It should be interesting to see what the total figures are by the end of today. I think another interesting stat is how far this has travelled in under 48hours. There are people looking at the site in NZ, Autralia, Canada, USA, England, Europe (all which you might expect), but then there are also people in Japan, Hong Kong, Sweden, Israel, Russian Federation, Spain, Germany!! Mind-boggling stuff. Let's hope the spread continues.
I still haven't got very good keywords listed in search engines yet (only anovelmillion.com and www.anovelmillion.com), so once that happens it should also help me a lot.
The stats say that approximately 20% (that's a lot) of people have actually added the site to their favourites!
Also the average time that people are taking to look at the site keeps increasing. Yesterday it was approximately 3 minutes average. Now it is 6 mins average! I like that stat, it means people are really interested in what is on the site.
I haven't heard back from William today, the first person to buy words, but I'm assuming he's experiencing a really good advertising effect at the moment......I'll let you know when I hear from him.
As for the word selling, I haven't sold any more words/characters since the first "quick sale" I had. I hope this trend doesn't last too long.........it's great that people are looking at the site, but I definitely have doubts when no words are being sold. I'm a little surprised that no-one has bought characters to start off the Million Character Story...............that's prime real estate right there. Hopefully that will get a beginning soon.
I guess people who might be thinking about it could look at The Million Word Story, and see the advertising going on there. That only cost the advertiser $100, which really is not a lot of money for how much benefit he will now get out of it. Additionally, he may even get that $100 back if these stories ever get published! So I'd say "it's a deal never to be repeated"............or at least for the next 999,900 words and 1,000,000 characters!
Don't forget to have a look at the auctions I set up:
Click here for ebay
Click here for Trademe
¶ 10:53 AM
I guess being a scientist I have a natural "love" for statistics, but the data you get to follow your own website is pretty impressive. Here's some of the breakdown only 2 days into it:
day 1: 80 unique visitors, 1,200 hits to view it
day 2: (and the official "stats" time is now only 7pm, so there's still another 5 hours left)
230 unique visitors, 6323 hits
That's 150 new visitors alone in the 2nd day, as well as 5,000 hits just in the 2nd day. It should be interesting to see what the total figures are by the end of today. I think another interesting stat is how far this has travelled in under 48hours. There are people looking at the site in NZ, Autralia, Canada, USA, England, Europe (all which you might expect), but then there are also people in Japan, Hong Kong, Sweden, Israel, Russian Federation, Spain, Germany!! Mind-boggling stuff. Let's hope the spread continues.
I still haven't got very good keywords listed in search engines yet (only anovelmillion.com and www.anovelmillion.com), so once that happens it should also help me a lot.
The stats say that approximately 20% (that's a lot) of people have actually added the site to their favourites!
Also the average time that people are taking to look at the site keeps increasing. Yesterday it was approximately 3 minutes average. Now it is 6 mins average! I like that stat, it means people are really interested in what is on the site.
I haven't heard back from William today, the first person to buy words, but I'm assuming he's experiencing a really good advertising effect at the moment......I'll let you know when I hear from him.
As for the word selling, I haven't sold any more words/characters since the first "quick sale" I had. I hope this trend doesn't last too long.........it's great that people are looking at the site, but I definitely have doubts when no words are being sold. I'm a little surprised that no-one has bought characters to start off the Million Character Story...............that's prime real estate right there. Hopefully that will get a beginning soon.
I guess people who might be thinking about it could look at The Million Word Story, and see the advertising going on there. That only cost the advertiser $100, which really is not a lot of money for how much benefit he will now get out of it. Additionally, he may even get that $100 back if these stories ever get published! So I'd say "it's a deal never to be repeated"............or at least for the next 999,900 words and 1,000,000 characters!
Don't forget to have a look at the auctions I set up:
Click here for ebay
Click here for Trademe
¶ 10:53 AM
