I'm starting a project that is going to try to get publication dates for each of my works. I'm going to be perusing the ancient announcements and the likes to try to track down a date of publication for each piece of work I have released on this website. It's a big project, and I'm asking you to help me out. If you have some time, go through the old announcements and scan it for dates of publication. Send any you find to the following email address, and I will be eternally grateful as you saved me a whole lot of time.
If everyone does a bit, it'd be a lot easier.
([email protected])
For the year of 2012, I've gotten 112 sessions (or hits, if you get the terminology), 93 distinct users (which means about 83% of sessions were new), and 579 page views (that's 5.17 pages/session). Average session time was 1 hour and 11 seconds.
(why such a long average session time? Well, if we count anything above 5 hours as an outlier (because although I'd like to imagine people spending a lot of time on my website, it's probably a fluke), the average time would be half an hour, but only because of a few three-four hours visits)
For the year of 2013, 363 sessions, 312 users (almost 86% new sessions), 1,297 page views (an average of 3.57 page/session), and each session time was on average 7 minutes and 56 seconds long.
For this year, 256 sessions, 183 users (which makes it about 69.5% new sessions, which means I'm building up a returning figure, which means that I have a fan base), 850 page views (about 3.32 pages/session), and an average session rate of 1 minute and 47 seconds (which is understandable seeing how I haven't had a lot of new content lately.)
What does that mean total? Well...
731 sessions, 585 users (about 80% new session rate), 2,726 page views (3.73 pages/session), and an average session time of 13 minutes and 47 seconds. The bounce rate (which is the percentage of people who go to the main page and then leave almost immediately) is also really good, at a low 26%. 81.12% of all sessions has come from within the US and 10.53% from Great Britain. The rest scattered around the world.
I have a 17% returning user rate, which is really good.
Now I'm sure you've had enough of that raw data. Let me tell you how this website is doing.
It's doing surprisingly well, better than I would have expected. New people keep visiting, and a small amount of returning users keep returning, which is nice. The recent half of a year (from January to now) is doing better than the other two years. If it keeps up, it's going to be excellent.
So that's enough of that. Go explore the website or something. I don't know, go have fun.