Stats and Lots Pretty Graphs
Who doesn’t love a good statistic over analysis? Well, most people, but you’ll like this one. I made a bunch of shiny, 3D graphs for this one 
Browsers
First, here are my browser stats. Disclaimer: Stats are collected by Mint, and the graphs are made with Numbers from iWork ‘08.
The FireFox percentage is a low 69% at the moment, and it goes up to around 75% every now and then. The IE percentage, at 15 is a little high for normal, and 60% of IE users are on IE7. That means 6% of all visitors here are on IE6. Upgrade!
I’d like to see FF hold a strong 75% all the time, and if theres going to be 15% IE users, I’d like to see at least 10% using IE7. How I’ll do this, I don’t know.
Platforms
Actually not much in the way of OSs here. It breaks down very simply to this:
Windows: 70%
Mac: 26%
Linux: 3%
Other: 1%
I can’t say nay of these numbers trouble me at all. 26% seems like a good, healthy amount of Mac users, but a majority of Windows is pretty much expected.
Traffic Sources
My traffic, as all traffic on the web comes from three sources: Search, Direct and Referrer.
That represents the following data:
- Search: 24%, or about 2900 absolute unique visitors since late April ‘07.
- Direct: 33%, or about 4000 AUVs.
- Referrer, the final 43% or 5200 AUVs.
By “AUV” or absolute unique visitor, this is just Mint’s way of tracking all time visitors. If you come here one day, for the first time ever, my all time unique count goes up by one. If you come the next day again, you’re counted for that day again, but not again on the AUV count.
Pages Per Visitor
To conclude this, this grah shows the pages viewed per user, every month since late April. If you haven’t guessed it by now, I installed Mint back then.
The tip coming down from April, which I have very little data for, could be for a series of reasons. I don’t remember, but April might’ve seen some sort of high quality link with some awesome relevance. I don’t remember. The data from September is all that I have so far.
As you can see, it stays in the high 2.5-2.8 region, which would be great higher, but as is, works well for me. Many people rely so heavily on viral traffic that they have pages per user down towards a 1.5 or so, which I don’t think is very good at all.
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Vincent
September 26th, 2007 at 3:09 AM
It seems that Firefox have taken the market. At least with your visitors
If you want a strong hold of 75% for FF, I think you should start doing some hard marketing in order to convert those 15% of IE to FF or take that 6% of Opera.
Acopic
September 26th, 2007 at 4:37 AM
Nice graphs you got there. Particularly liked the Pages Per Visit (wooden) one. Why are you so bothered about what browser your visitors use - surely thats down to personal preference?
Nathan
September 26th, 2007 at 7:12 AM
That’s a good point that i’ve never thought about really - personal preference for the browser. That’s changed completely the way i’ll look at it from now.
It’s going good Connor! I have to say that I regularly read the posts and often pop around the site for old posts. Good to know you’re still going strong.
Ryan
September 26th, 2007 at 4:57 PM
Haha. The wood graph is my favorite too.
I don;t know if Mint has a similar feature but I love in Google Analytics where they lay the stats right over your site. Its really cool and probably useful too, mostly just fun for now, though.
Connor Wilson
September 26th, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Haha, I was playing around with the colour effects and thought the wood thing was too random to leave out.
Any Mac users not on iWork ‘08 should really get it!
mark rushworth
September 27th, 2007 at 2:34 PM
I concur with this tho’ only within the creative industry… its amazing how over the past few months most of my clients seem to be using IE6!
…which is a major pain because of the display block li and margin left on float issues!
Mauritian
September 27th, 2007 at 4:01 PM
A real 2.0 analysis
Mike
September 27th, 2007 at 5:05 PM
lol nice charts! They look really good!
I am one of your IE 7 user ever since I downloaded firefox 2.0.7 firefox doesnt work, it doesnt connect to any webpages its kind of wierd and I dont feel like looking into it further all I know is it worked before because I used it to download the update then when firefox restarted nothing was there
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