Learning2.0 : Journey to about2findout.com

September was a record month. Top day was 25th September with 485 visitors. In total there were 8932 visits, with an average of almost 10 pages per visit. Lots of new registered users too.

It didn't come about just like that: the top weeks I had Google Ads running for 4 euro per day. Just the same, I'm very glad with the results. But it does show the limits of the site, some of the top days I noticed the site was down for 15 minutes because of the higher traffic.

This month I won't run any advertisements, just to see what is left when not promoting the site.

Labels: about2findout.com, google analytics

The site was launched in December last year, and I've already reported you on the first month. Here is what happened in January:

In January, some new features such as RSS feeds, 3 new question types and the Friday QuizDay newsletter were introduced. But what is different from last month is that there were no Google or other advertisements to drive traffic to the site. I wanted to test the 'residual' visits after promoting it one month, and just rely on the blog, visitors own promotion and Friday Quizday flash. It was not bad. Statistics come from the free Google Analytics service.

- The site had a total of 1392 unique visits (down from 1512), 65% of them new visits and good for a total page view of 9282.

- There is a lot of variation in visitors per day. The high peaks are not there anymore because there were no Google ads this month. The average is around 45 daily visitors, with peaks of 80 or more. In the weekends there is a drop in visitors. The Friday Quizday flash has effects on Friday and Monday.

- Visitors stay on average 4 minutes, but there is a 58% bounce rate (only visit 1 page)

- Browsers: IE is still the most used browser with 66%, but that is a 7% drop by last month.

- 61% of people find us via Google.

- There were 19 new members, some of them got really active on the site. This month we also had the first quiz in German.

- The numbers of questions and quizzes increased significantly. We went from 225 to 522 published questions!

- The top 5 of visiting countries: Unites States, Belgium, United Kingdom, India, Netherlands.

- The Hall of Fame after two months:

Name	Accuracy	Points	Member since	Country
QuizMan	53%	988	16 Sep 2007	BE
Dailydog	85%	872	23 Sep 2007	BE
bert_decoutere	62%	759	09 Sep 2007	BE
Stijn	73%	542	02 Sep 2007	BE
elgotes	69%	385	16 Dec 2007	AR
Kareltjeslimmerik	58%	210	13 Dec 2007	BE
Popol	78%	194	18 Sep 2007	BE
belandje	67%	137	27 Jan 2008	BE
shubhox	69%	108	20 Dec 2007	IN
monnu1380	73%	85	21 Dec 2007	IN

Labels: about2findout, analytics, google analytics, statistics

Google Analytics uses a new tracking code to make free statistics of your site, its visitors and how they got there. The new script to include in your pages is the one below (change the ID by your own), but the old one will keep working for another year. (I can't paste script in here, so it's a picture. Click to see larger.)

Labels: google analytics