Digitalmash

Nevertheless, for the other third, I thought it might be slightly interesting to let you in on Digitalmash statistics a month on since the redesign. For those who are wondering where they’re from, the following stats come from Shaun Inman’s absolutely brilliant web site analytics program, Mint. For those who are thinking about keeping a closer eye on the comings and goings of their site, I really can’t recommend it enough.

Visitors

Over the last month, the site received 230,791 total visits, with 57,503 of those from unique visitors.

Platform

60 / 40 between Windows and Macintosh. Interestingly, less than a third of those Windows users were running Vista.

Browsers

Interestingly, over the first few weeks, visitors’ browsers were mainly split between Firefox and Safari. As time has gone on and the IE7 crowd have pulled up the numbers. It makes sense to me that the people using IE7 are a little late to the party. It’s the same for their choice of browsers.

Screen sizes

Having a new baseline of 1024 × 768 is pretty sound these days.

Referrers

Surprisingly, webdesignerwall.com’s ‘Best of 2008′ feature generated the most traffic by a long way.

Locations

Now this doesn’t surprise me much, but I’m a little disappointed about Australia’s showing in all this. I know we’re only a small island, but where’s the love?

Conclusions

So what’s there to say about all these stats? Not much really. You could quite possibly be one of the two-thirds who find this stuff boring, but have endured this post until the end in hope that you might find something to make it all worthwhile. If this is the case, I apologise.

Over the last month, the response has been overwhelming. I’ve received contact from people from all across the world. I’m happy to say that the feedback’s been really positive.

Obviously these stats aren’t representative of the web as a whole, so it might be interesting to hear if your site stats show any strong differences in these areas.

—Published 14 December, 2008 ← Journal Home