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Link meme

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A brief review of blog traffic for the past year

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I don’t pay as much attention to blog traffic for FML as I probably should. I know there are a lot of things I could improve if I paid more attention to the various details. Instead, I tend to look for trends and broad numbers and that’s about it.

This evening I checked summary statistics from Google Analytics for the past year. Here is what I found:

  • There were 6,713 unique visitors to the site, which averages out to about 18.4 visitors per day
  • Visitors tend to spend only about a minute on the site each visit
  • The browser used by visitors breaks down as follows:
    • Internet Explorer – 46.51%
    • Firefox – 41.53%
    • Safari – 9.65%
    • Mozilla – 1.02%
    • Netscape – .48%
  • Traffic sources include 38.36% of visitors who find FML via search engines; 31.68% who go directly to the site (in other words, the site is bookmarked or the URL is typed in directly); and 27.42% of traffic comes from referring sites. Of the 38.36% of visitors who find FML via a search engine, the vast majority of them uses Google (over 80%).
  • The vast majority of visitors uses Windows as their operating system (80.45%). 17.93% use Mac OS X. 1.38% use Linux.

I am especially pleased at the good showing for non-IE browsers. Something else that is of interest is what keywords people use in a search engine that leads them to FML. Here are some of the top keywords, aside from the obvious ones such as “family man librarian”: “portable browsers”, “everyone has a double”, “library related wordpress theme” and “praise you in the storm.”

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Some site statistics

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I decided to look at some website traffic statistics today for the period July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. Here is what I found:

Number of Unique Visitors: 16,053

Total Number of Visitors: 55,699

Total Number of Hits: 256,267

Those are just some gross figures, but they are surprising to me, nevertheless.

Here is where things get a little more interesting. The following shows statistics for which web browsers are used by visitors to this site:

Unknown: 53%
Internet Explorer: 22%
Mozilla: 22%
Safari: .02%

I wonder what “Unknown” means? Also, I was really pleased to see that Mozilla is just as popular as Internet Explorer for visitors to this site.

I’m often curious about what leads people to the site. One way, obviously, is by keyword searches. Below is a list of the five keyword searches that most frequently lead people to this site:

stanley mccallum (32%)
nils oberg (13%)
family man librarian (8%)
library related wordpress theme (5%)
becky hickmott (5%)

I find this list particularly strange. Why on earth do people so frequently find my site by inputting “stanley mccallum” (the name of my maternal grandfather)?

One more statistic that I found interesting is that the overwhelming majority of visitors to this site use Cable/DSL (72%). Dialup users are still out there (7%).

Several big blog changes

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Just a quick post to mention several changes I’ve made to this blog overnight. I’ve added a link to a tag cloud in the sidebar. I’ve also added new custom icons in the sidebar for “RSS Subscribe” and “Email Subscribe.” The “Email Subscribe” button’s link replaces the link to an external service, Bloglet, with a way for you to get updates on new posts via email directly. It’s a much nicer service, I think. You can register as a subscriber to Family Man Librarian and with that capability comes several options, e.g. to choose to receive email updates in plain text or HTML. Then I added a new custom icon in the sidebar for “Email Me” so that if you want to contact me directly, you can click on this icon and fill out a web form to send me an email.

Let’s see…What else? Well, I’ve also added a link to my tag cloud in the sidebar, and also added a new section in the sidebar for “Most Popular Posts.” You will also see changes in the content of each post. I’ve added a “Related Posts” portion to the bottom. I’ve also stripped out the categories that used to appear at the top of each post, as well as the list of technorati tags at the bottom of each post, mainly for aesthetic reasons (they just made things too cluttered.)

I think the tag cloud link is particularly cool, as is the ability now to see the most popular posts.

Father Blogga

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I’ve really arrived. Family Man Librarian is included in The Blogga Song. Wow. Needless to say, irregardless of my inclusion, I think it’s pretty funny and so do my kids, who insist on watching it over and over. ‘Course they don’t really understand it but who cares if it makes them giggle helplessly? Someone else who is included in this hilarious sketch is Dorothea Salo who writes the Caveat Lector blog. (By the way, there are many, many incredibly gifted writers who are librarian bloggers and she is one of the very best, in my opinion. Her personality and style exude out of every phrase she writes.) Dorothea writes about her inclusion in The Blogga Song as follows, and I feel much the same:

It’s a distinct honor to have been included, by the way. Awards, yeah, fine, whatever. What’s an A-list and why do I care about it? I know I’ve arrived (whatever that means), though, when I make it into The Blogga Song.