I take it as a huge compliment that hacker news sends this blog so much traffic. Very gratifying
AndyFinkle
· 1 year ago
Congratulations, I note that your Twitter investment sends more traffic then a much older (and deeper pocketed) stumbleupon - and Your Disqus more then another older/deeppocketed delicious!
I got a huge spike in traffic from stumbleupon on the day after election day to my obama post. Without that SU would not normally be in the top ten for this blog
deepeshbanerji
· 1 year ago
over what time period is that data?
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
the past 30 days
DGentry
· 1 year ago
There is also a gaggle of RSS feeders (like me) who don't normally show up in your Analytics stats.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
true, but #4, #11, #12, and #15 are web-based feed readers that are driving click thrus to this blog
BmoreWire
· 1 year ago
I have to assume #4 includes igoogle.
kortina
· 1 year ago
Fred, any chance you can post a cross segment of "Direct traffic" and "landing page"?
Direct traffic is kind of misleading because it includes desktop email clients, desktop twitter clients, air apps, iphone / blackberry apps, desktop rss readers, and instant messenger apps like AIM.
What "direct traffic" sounds like is people who typed avc.com into their address bar, but I would imagine the landing page avc.com does not count for a large percentage of your direct traffic. More likely, most of the "direct" traffic is coming from apps I mentioned above.
This stuff is pretty interesting to look at and you can get a lot of insight into it using google analytics. Here's how to do it.
In analytics, go to the Direct Traffic report under Visitors. From the "Dimension" dropdown, choose "Landing Page." http://bit.ly/Wwl0 http://bit.ly/ogJa
Another note: using the operating system dimension, you could get some insight to how much of this traffic is coming from blackberry / iphone apps: http://bit.ly/10E8W
joshklein
· 1 year ago
I'm really surprised by those bounce rates; I'd think they would be much lower, especially for organic search. And 94% of referrals from YCombinator News bounce. What were they expecting? :)
Paolo
· 1 year ago
Wow, apparently social news sites work pretty well for you...
fnazeeri
· 1 year ago
The variance in "engagement" is fascinating. The average Disqus visitor spends nearly 6 minutes whereas MSN seems to be sending uninterested traffic (18 seconds average on site). I've seen the same wide range of engagement on my blog. If you look at the traffic in terms of "visitor minutes" then there are some interesting changes. For example Disqus jumps 11 spots to #6 from #17. AOL and Yahoo fall 6 and 7 spots respectively while most of the others remain in essentially the same order.
I guess the take away is that Google is much better at delivering relevant search results compared to AOL, Yahoo, MSN, et al and that Disqus users are nearly an order of magnitude more engaged than other visitors. Now if you can only get paid for that higher level of engagement...
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
That is the challenge and the oppty for social media
Jasonp107
· 1 year ago
I agree that it's startling how much Disqus referrals are creaming everyone else in terms of Time on Site. And the next tier below that includes referring sites like Twitter and FriendFeed.
I have this connected to google reader so I'm not sure which source I'm directed through (probably google). All I know is that I'm pleased with the consistency with which you post and the thought provoking and educational topics you provide.
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Direct traffic is kind of misleading because it includes desktop email clients, desktop twitter clients, air apps, iphone / blackberry apps, desktop rss readers, and instant messenger apps like AIM.
What "direct traffic" sounds like is people who typed avc.com into their address bar, but I would imagine the landing page avc.com does not count for a large percentage of your direct traffic. More likely, most of the "direct" traffic is coming from apps I mentioned above.
This stuff is pretty interesting to look at and you can get a lot of insight into it using google analytics. Here's how to do it.
In analytics, go to the Direct Traffic report under Visitors. From the "Dimension" dropdown, choose "Landing Page."
http://bit.ly/Wwl0
http://bit.ly/ogJa
Another note: using the operating system dimension, you could get some insight to how much of this traffic is coming from blackberry / iphone apps: http://bit.ly/10E8W
I guess the take away is that Google is much better at delivering relevant search results compared to AOL, Yahoo, MSN, et al and that Disqus users are nearly an order of magnitude more engaged than other visitors. Now if you can only get paid for that higher level of engagement...
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