A couple of days ago I did a little experiment with the previous (and first!) entry of this blog with the objective of collecting some statistical information about people like me, who are avid readers of nerdly news, and in particular of trying to measure the famous
slashdot effect and compare it with its analogous from other sites.
The blog entry made its way to the front page of
Slashdot,
Digg and their spanish clones:
Barrapunto and
Meneame, generating around 140,000 combined visits that were logged using
Google Analytics. This time I want to share the results with you.
Duration
The article was on Slashdot's front page for about 20.5 hours (from August 13
th, 2:30PM until August 14
th, 11:00AM). As you can see below, most of the visits took place on monday morning. After leaving the front page of Slashdot and Digg the daily visits were reduced from 81,300 to 17,000 and surely will continue dropping as fast as they grew.
|
Sunday |
Monday |
 |
| Visits: |
42,813 |
81,316 |
| Visits/hour: |
4,505 |
7,390 |
| Visits/minute: |
75 |
123 |
Bandwidth
A first visit to the page produce a transfer of arround 720kB, with that and the number of new visitors can we figure out how much data (approximately) was transferred during that time.
 |
| Sunday: |
28.7GB |
| Monday: |
54,6GB |
| Total: |
83.3GB |
Where do all those geeks come from?
People came from all over the world, in fact from 157 different countries. Most stories in Slashdot/Digg reach
every corner of the world!
|
| North America: |
77,634 visits |
| Europe: |
41,159 visits |
| Oceania: |
6,443 visits |
| Asia: |
5,423 visits |
| Hispanic America: |
5,350 visits |
| Africa: |
724 visits |
 |
| USA: |
67,752 visits |
| Canada: |
9,882 visits |
| UK: |
9,336 visits |
| Spain: |
7,577 visits |
| Australia: |
5,209 visits |
| Germany: |
3,770 visits |
| Netherlands: |
2,413 visits |
| Sweden: |
2,014 visits |
| Brazil: |
2,008 visits |
Languages
 |
| English: |
116,853 visits |
| Spanish: |
7,402 visits |
| German: |
1,975 visits |
| French: |
1,763 visits |
| Japanese: |
1,758 visits |
| Dutch: |
1,465 visits |
| Portuguese: |
1,351 visits |
The Referrers
I didn't imagine such big difference between the traffic from Slashdot and from Digg.
|
| Slashdot: |
75,753 visits |
| Digg: |
18,087 visits |
| Barrapunto: |
3,767 visits |
| Metafilter: |
3,271 visits |
| I-am-bored.com: |
1,627 visits |
| Slo-Tech: |
1,589 visits |
| del.icio.us: |
1,582 visits |
| Meneame: |
1,538 visits |
Firefox & the geeks!
Almost 2/3 of the people were using the Firefox browser, who said Internet Explorer is the most popular browser? Well, not among us :)
 |
| Firefox: |
63% |
| Internet Explorer: |
20% |
OSs
Unfortunately Linux is still not so popular as Firefox, even among the geeks.
|
| Windows: |
72% |
| Macintosh: |
14% |
| Linux: |
13% |
 |
Combo: OS - Browser
Screen Resolution
 |
| Resolution: |
1280x1024 and 1024x768 |
| Color Depth |
32 bit |
|
Plugins
|
| Flash: |
96,6% |
| Java: |
96% |
 |
Connection Speed
 |
| Dialup: |
9% |
Do geeks click on Ads?
Finally for all of you wondering what you can get (besides a burning web-server) from being slashdotted, here are the numbers. You are not going to become rich, but perhaps you have more luck than
this guy.
|
| Page Impressions: |
154,243 |
| Clicks: |
454 |
| Dollars: |
$134 |
15 Comments:
well... what about opera?
only firefox?:)
huh. lol?!
Opera is on there, just not one of the tops....but opera rocks
I think Opera has a feature that identifies the browser like Internet Explorer (I don't know if it exist in the new versions but in the old ones)
This is unbelievable, i could never have imagined such an effect of Barrapunto. Thank you for posting this... as it makes clear what chooses a nerd to browse the web. Firefox r00lz! (so does Opera, but it isn't open source)
What about southAmerica? I'm from Argentina and there are people here who reads barrapunto every single day, including me. And we are using LINUX!!
great post
greetings from barrapunto :P
just an fyi: I think it is against Google's terms to show impressions and clicks. It should be okay to show the dollar amount that you made.
It's very interesting, only say that you get more visits from bandaancha.st than barrapunto or Meneame, It's an spanish portal dedicated to the world of the computers, Internet access and New Technologies...
Congratulations ;)
Sorry, I wrote bad my message about Bandaancha.st, I dont write very well English, I was trying to say that it was a big referral too, not the above... :S:S
Greetings! Interesting blog entry & experiment.
Just a nitpick: I suppose you lumped Brazil into the Hispanic America (which would be the category Marcelo Arguelo was looking for). FYI, the standard language spoken there is Portuguese, which, while originating from Latin (hence Latin America, due to the French influences also, and despite Dutch influence in some regions), is not hispanic.
Cheers!
Very interesting stuff :D
If only u extend the list of OS... its all about windows and apple -kde
Maybe you could finish -after the EfFecT-
congratulations from spain...
Interesante, pero podrias traducirlo al castellano.
Really interesting. Google Analytics is becoming such a needed tool...
Galder
Great news.It's hard to imagine that firefox has become even better!
Now it's an ultimate browser, I guess.
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