Online Apps Demographics

Photo by Cambodia4kids.org Beth Kanter. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)

Now that we have Google Analytics installed, I thought it might be interesting to see who reads my blog. I found some very interesting facts (from Aug 20 - present):

• The majority of my readers are... Democrats? I guess most of them are friends from the tech section, not the politics. They also love Obama, Clinton, and Paul.
• The majority of my visitors come from the United States, followed by Canada and the UK.
• I have a visitor from every state, except Montana.
• The state that sent the most visitors is California, followed by my home state of New Jawsey, Texas, and the state I was born in, New Yawk.
• I have had visitors from every country in Europe except Belarus and Serbia. At least, as far as I can tell (the map doesn't let you zoom).
• The Muslim Middle East has obstinately ignored me. Saudi Arabia sent two visits, Kuwait, Palestinian Territory, and the UAE each sent one. Israel however sent nine. I guess that shows the type of Middle East content I write/comment on ;-)
• The city that sent the most visits is surprisingly London. In second was Oakland, New Jersey (where my ISP is located. Hmm....), followed by Chicago and New Yawk. Believe it or not, the 8th place city was Pleasanton. Wow. In total, 825 cities sent me visits.
• As far as continents go, North America sent the most by far. Northern Europe, Western Europe, Australia/New Zealand, and Southeastern Asia also finished high.
• For page visits/views, Fiji scored highest with 6.00. Of course, they only sent one visitor. Sudan had four visits, and averaged 2.75.
• As far as average time on my site, Brazil came on top with 16 minutes (and 17 visits)! Venezuala came in second with 15:02 (and 3), Croatia in third with 14:60 and 7 visits. The US average is 3:19.
• There were 59 countries with 100% new visits, but since most of them had only one visit I didn't count them. Australia had 96.92% new visitors, so I retract every bad thing I ever said about Australians ;-). On the other end of the spectrum, Jamaica only had 40% new visits, and Chile and Mauritius had 50% each.
• I'm averaging 140 views/day, with the biggest day being August 24 with 529 visits. I didn't even write anything on the 24th.
• 91.26% of my visitors only visit once. Ouch. 3.51% visited twice, 1.38% visited three times, 0.79% visited four times, and a measly 0.29% visited 26-50.
• My visitors are smart: they use Firefox! 57.55% of them, anyway.
• My visitors are stupid: they use Windows! 72.56% of them, anyway. 20.33% use Linux, 6.82% use Macintosh, 0.08% use FreeBSD, and 0.04% use SunOS.
• My visitors are smart and stupid: 38.14% use Firefox on Windows. 30.66% use IE, and only 16.23% use Firefox on Linux.
• My visitors like speed: Most use Cable, DSL, or T1.
• The top referrers are Google (46.59%), LinuxToday (21.62%), and (duh) Newsvine (7.70%). 7.03% came without a referrer.
• Top keywords are: "garageband for windows", "garageband windows", "garage band for windows", "virtualbox 1.5", and "garage band windows". I think they were looking for this. Which explains why they all came only once.

So what's your success (or failure) story?

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