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Written by Sean on Wednesday, June 21, 2006

There’s a new Yahoo! group Sophie started which I’ve been meaning to promote, and I have recently signed up for Google Analytics, which gives fantastic stats. I wanted to share that with you guys & gals!

Sophie (also known as Ahiru) recently started a group for transabled folks to be able to meet, share, and discuss ideas and how they feel about these issues we face daily. It is called The BIID Affair and can be found here: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_biid_affair It’s small at this point but there’s a fair bit of activity, so if you are transabled, come check it out.

As for statistics, first, I should tell you that I have no way of telling who you are when you visit the site. I don’t keep track of *any* personal information (even if I could, I wouldn’t). The statistics are really just to get a better idea of what pages on the site are viewed the most, how many people come on the site, which part of the world do people come from, that kind of stuff.

I have wide fluctuation of visitors. Generally, about 150 of you come to the site daily (that’s an average of 150 unique visitors/day). You view approximately 1,250 pages each day. So, each person sees about 8 pages. But of course, it doesn’t work that way, some people will look at the entire site and skew the stats ;)

I had a big surge of visitors after Devguide put my site up on their recently updated site. This was expected. For the first three days after the update, there were about 750 unique visitors, viewing over 8,500 pages.

What fascinated me was to see where visitors were coming from. The bulk of my visitors seem to come from Europe (UK & Germany in majority), and the US. That’s not really surprising. But there seems to be a big number of folks coming from Russia. I have a few visitors from Japan, China, Brazil (and other areas in South America). Not many from Australia, which somewhat surprises me. South Africa sent me a few hits. Canada sent some, but almost none from the West coast. Toronto, and Montreal. And a little Quebec town called Rimouski (salut les bleuets)! And the Middle East, and India & Pakistan, and a whole series of other places that would be too long to list here!

I was amused to see that a typical visit to my site after the Devguide update went: Visitor enters on the main page, goes directly to the photo page, and of those going to the photo page, nearly 35% left the site for good. I extrapolate that about a third of the people coming to my site were hunting for photos and left because they didn’t find it! Also interesting is that a big part of these visits stayed on the site less than 30 seconds.

Anyway, that’s it for stats, it may bore you to tears, but I find it fascinating. What this tells me is that there are more people with an interest in these issues than one would initially suspect, and we are spread literally all over the world.

Thanks everyone for visiting.