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Re: How You Are Getting Here

Seb — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:46:23 -0000

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.

Re: How You Are Getting Here

Jason Preston — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:06:15 -0000

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.

Re: How You Are Getting Here

Ori — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:07:51 -0000

Amazing trafiic from twitter :-))

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Re: How You Are Getting Here

fredwilson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:57:13 -0000

That is the challenge and the oppty for social media

Re: How You Are Getting Here

fnazeeri — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:16:51 -0000

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...

Re: How You Are Getting Here

Paolo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:34:25 -0000

Wow, apparently social news sites work pretty well for you...

Re: How You Are Getting Here

Josh Klein — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:28:23 -0000

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? :)

Re: How You Are Getting Here

kortina — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:11:00 -0000

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

Re: How You Are Getting Here

BmoreWire — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:10:08 -0000

I have to assume #4 includes igoogle.

Re: How You Are Getting Here

fredwilson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:15:19 -0000

true, but #4, #11, #12, and #15 are web-based feed readers that are driving click thrus to this blog

Re: How You Are Getting Here

fredwilson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:14:07 -0000

the past 30 days

Re: How You Are Getting Here

DGentry — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:50:31 -0000

There is also a gaggle of RSS feeders (like me) who don't normally show up in your Analytics stats.

Re: How You Are Getting Here

fredwilson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:35:33 -0000

I take it as a huge compliment that hacker news sends this blog so much traffic. Very gratifying

Re: How You Are Getting Here

deepeshbanerji — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:29:44 -0000

over what time period is that data?

Re: How You Are Getting Here

Amit Agarwal — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:21:42 -0000

Good to see Hacker News at #3 .. love that site.

Re: How You Are Getting Here

fredwilson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:09:31 -0000

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

Re: How You Are Getting Here

AndyFinkle — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:03:34 -0000

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!