How many people visited my blog??

About 2 months ago in my Electronic Marketing lecture, my lecturer touched on a topic about Google Analytics and how it generates a detailed statistical report on website visits. Basically if you created a website and installed Google Analytics on your page, you are able to track the activities in your website. Whether how many people visit the page, what did they do there, and most importantly it helps you analyse the performance of your website!

I thought it would be a great idea to try it on my blog, so I tried it on my blog as an experiment. As I promised on my previous post, at the end of this semester I'm going to present the report on my blog performance. (Here's what I blogged about Google Analytics - I'm with Google Analytics!)

The following information is taken from 1st of September 2010 up to today (14th October 2010).

Overall:

• there were 213 pagevisits to my blog with the total of 52 different visitors
• Each person out of those 52 people visited 2-3 pages per visit on average (some may only visited 1 most recent post, some may visit another pages while they were still in the website)

Which blog post has the most visits?

• My blog about Cebu Pacific cabin crew dancing received the most visits (43 visits)! This could be because I posted the link to this blog on my Facebook page and has video in it. =D
• It seems that the more recent blog posts got more attention. The shameless self-promotion through Facebook and Twitter played big roles here.

Where did the visitors come from?

When I first found out that I could check where did my visitors come from, I originally thought that most of them would come from Moodle and Facebook (since I recently posted link to my post on my Facebook page as well). For those who didn't know what Moodle is, it's a webpage for Electronic Marketing students at Monash where our blogs are posted on the homepage of the website and the top 10 most recent blogs will be shown at the top of the page.

Based on the statistics below, Facebook is the main traffic source to my blog (this I'm not surprised). However, (sadly) there were actually only 8 visits generated from Moodle page! Since I honestly just clicked on blog titles that are most appealing to me, I guess this means that the titles of my post were not attractive enough to gain visits from students visiting Moodle homepage. =(

Where in the world did my blog visitors come from?

As you see above, almost 70% of total visits come from Australia. Followed 2nd by Singapore with 16 visits and Indonesia with 4 visits.

I was a bit surprised that I got visits from US, France, and South Korea. But then again, they spent 0 second on my blog with 100% bounce rate (they immediately exited from the page), so that was apparently not a good thing haha..

So...

According to these data from Google Analytics, my blog posts gained more visits since I posted the link on my Facebook and Twitter accounts. So, try posting your blogs on social medias to avoid talking to a crowded room with no one pays attention. However, since only 8 visits in total from Moodle page I think I need to pick titles that are attractive to compete with other blogs posted on Moodle.

Anyone doing Google Analytics as well? Feel free to share your performance analysis here, since the end of this semester is approaching very soon..