2009 In Review: GeoffShackelford.com Stats Edition
/Thanks to reader Jack (I think) who suggested I plug in Google Analytics after my spellbinding end-of-2008 post revealing your preferred browsers.
After a year of Google code tracking your every move, I thought I'd share some stats about GeoffShackelford.com readers. While I am injecting bits and pieces from the three different site metrics--Google, Squarespace and Quantcast--each produced wildly different numbers (so much for the web producing reliable tracking numbers).
Squarespace (my wonderful site host which I highly recommended if you are looking to start any kind of website), provided the biggest numbers while web traffic tracker Quantcast's were the lowest. So going with the median, here's what Google Analytics produced (all numbers exclude search engine hits):
- January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 produced 2.07 million page views
- In that time, the site received 375,790 "unique visitors" (whatever that actually means!)
- December, normally the slowest month, was the site's busiest of the year and for that matter, the most since I started blogging. You sure are getting excited about that groove rule change!
- I can report that in 2009 you averaged a healthy 3:03 minutes on the site
In the thrilling browser race...
Internet Explorer 49.07%
Firefox 29.61%
Safari 16.80%
Chrome 3.12%
Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.43%
Readership here is still largely US-based. The top 10 countries reading GeoffShackelford.com:
1. United States 77.34%
2. Canada 10.36%
3. United Kingdom 4.53%4. Australia 2.19%
5. Netherlands 0.52%
6. Sweden 0.40%
7. Ireland 0.37%
8. New Zealand 0.33%
9. Germany 0.32%
10. Spain 0.31%
Just imagine if the site wasn't banned in China!
The top 30 cities in the world. New York wins in a landslide and I'm big in northern Florida!
1. New York 6.85%
2. London 1.95%
3. Los Angeles 1.73%
4. San Francisco 1.70%
5. Atlanta 1.52%
6. Chicago 1.49%
7. Melbourne 1.17%
8. Toronto 1.12%
9. Ponte Vedra Beach 0.95%
10. Washington 0.82%
11. Philadelphia 0.78%
12. Austin 0.76%
13. Far Hills 0.73%
14. Portland 0.69%15. Charlotte 0.64%
16. Orlando 0.63%
17. Calgary 0.54%
18. Weston 0.54%19. Dallas 0.53%
20. Houston 0.52%21.Denver 0.52%
22. Sydney 0.48%
23. Glasgow 0.47%
24. Vancouver 0.46%
25. Jacksonville 0.45%
26. Victoria 0.43%
27. Tucson 0.42%
28. Arlington 0.41%
29. Edinburgh 0.40%
30. Augusta 0.35%
City visits in United States:
1. New York 8.86%
2. Los Angeles 2.29%
3. San Francisco 2.19%
4. Atlanta 1.96%
5. Chicago 1.93%
6. Ponte Vedra Beach 1.22%
7. Washington 1.06%
8. Philadelphia 1.01%
9. Austin 0.99%
10. Far Hills 0.95%
11. Portland 0.89%
12. Charlotte 0.83%
13. Orlando 0.82%
14. Dallas 0.69%
15. Houston 0.68%
16. Denver 0.67%
17. Jacksonville 0.58%
18. Tucson 0.55%
19. Arlington 0.52%
20. Augusta 0.46%
21. Windermere 0.46%
22. Macon 0.43%
23. Minneapolis 0.42%
24. Seattle 0.42%
25. Phoenix 0.39%
How you're logging on and reading the site:
Cable 39.26%
DSL 22.95%
Unknown 22.88%
T1 11.08%
Dialup 2.58%
The top 10 ways you got to GeoffShackelford.com:
1.(Direct) 58.88%
2.google / organic 17.89%
3. twitter.com 4.06%
4. google.com / referral 2.27%
5. sports.yahoo.com 2.15%
6. yahoo / organic 1.27%
7. golfclubatlas.com / referral 1.22%
8. golfdigest.com / referral 1.22%
9. my.yahoo.com / referral 0.42%
10. golf.com 0.42%
And finally, the ten most likely search results that delivered you here. Uh...ah forget it. Nos. 9 and 10 are disturbing on a level that I can't even begin to fathom.
1. geoff shackelford 23.17%
2. geoff shackleford 7.33%
3. geoffshackelford.com 2.46%
4. shackelford 2.21%
5. geoffshackelford 0.99%
6. sea island company bankruptcy 0.84%
7. geoff shackelford blog 0.73%
8. tiger woods winning percentage 0.62%
9. christina kim nude 0.60%
10. mark rolfing 0.55%
