Okay, it's Saturday...time for some fun. Thanks to Google Analytics, we know more about our readers than we actually realize. It's not the "Big Brother" looking over your shoulder stuff. More like, well, analytic stuff, just like it says.
So, after 23 days online, here's some interesting information about The Icon:
We've experienced 4,225 visits to our site
Of those, 1,536 are unique visitors
Our visitors have totaled 33,364 page views
An average visitor checks out 7.9 pages per visit
That average visitor spends 6:06 minutes on the site during the visit
33 percent of visitors are new
66 percent of visitors are returners
57 percent use Internet Explorer
21 percent use Firefox
15 percent use Safari
39 percent are cable subscribers
30 percent use DLS
15 percent use T1 lines
We have visitors from 13 countries:
The vast majority are from the United States
33 visits were from Canada
21 from Switzerland (our guess: Ben Kruse)
6 from Brazil (probably Ken and Renee Snare)
2 from Russia
2 from Japan (probably Rick Emmert)
2 from Colombia
1 from Costa Rica
1 from Greece
19 unknown
Of all these visitors
1,422 first go to "15 minutes with..." and once there spend an average of 3:06 minutes of reading time
1,004 first go to columns
976 first go to obituaries
878 first go to images (photos)
Here's a chart showing daily views:
Oct. 10 75
Oct. 13 183 (2,159 total views)
Oct. 14 187 (2,346 total views)
Oct. 15 213 - our first time to crack the 200 viewer barrier
Oct. 16 172
Oct. 17 122
Oct. 18 114 (we failed to add new material for 2 days because we were out of town!)
Oct. 19 266
Oct. 20 276 (3,509 total views)
Oct. 21 234
Oct. 22 228
Oct. 23 276 (4,225 total views)
There's more, but so little time, since your 6:06 minutes of average reading time is almost up.
