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By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 +0000

Another Excel blog heard from:

Daily Dose of Excel statistics for June 2009

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:14:01 +0000

Chandoo -

The other thing Google Analytics is good for is analyzing traffic, and knowing for example that your June spike was due to the mention in Lifehacker. I hadn’t really thought the Chart Doctor controversy was enough to account for such a huge spike. What fraction of June’s traffic do you think came from the spike?

I use GA to see variation in visits to specific pages, to see trends in traffic from different referring sites, to see how visitors move within my site. This is an academic exercise for me so far, since I haven’t really figured out how to use the information.

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:14:34 +0000

Hey Jon.. pretty cool post this. I have always been skeptical to show or talk about stats. I think they measure reader engagement incorrectly. But they are very good for a host of other things like measuring bounce rates, understanding search engine, referral performances, how users navigate et al. I have uploaded the entire stats screenshot for June and for the last three months here.

Pointy Haired Dilbert statistics for June 2009

Pointy Haired Dilbert statistics for Q2 2009

Note, June numbers have slightly gone up, may be because google analytics counted few more visits after taking the screencap. I was on 1st july in India, but few parts of the world must be still in June at that time... (or there is something funny with the way google measures these numbers) Also, one correction: the june 12 spike is due to mention in Lifehacker. While chartbuster announcement did have a local spike, the lifehacker mention alone fetched 25k new visits in a frenzy.

By: jeff weir

jeff weir — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:31 +0000

Cool. I hope you didn’t take my comment as a critisism of the way the information is presented above.

Rather, I just thought it would be a good challenge to design a graph or series of graphs from first principles that shows how the different blogs relate to each other.

Some small multiples, crossed with some dynamic graphs with selectable series…that kind of thing.

I’d have a go, if there was some downloadable data from a few different blogs..

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:47:03 +0000

You can readily change the time scale of the sparkline; this is my site for two months (1 May to 30 June):

PeltierTech website statistics for May and June 2009

You can show numbers weekly as well; this is my site weekly in 2009 (4 January to 27 June):

PeltierTech website weekly statistics for 2009

And of course, you can do your own charts. These are for 1 January through 30 June, 1009.

PeltierTech website pageview statistics for 2009

PeltierTech website pageview statistics with 7-day moving average for 2009

PeltierTech website pageview statistics with loess smoothing for 2009

By: Jorge Camoes

Jorge Camoes — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:29:54 +0000

Not bad… Congrats all! I’m expecting to reach 150 000 monthly visits very soon too (around July 5, 2030)…