Site Meter provides the blogger with a variety of stats. Of course there is the summary stats that gives one the high level picture of total number of visitors and visits made within the last hour. Then there is the recent visitors stat the provides the domain of the visitor. After analyzing the QU Graduate Corner we have had a variety of different visitors who use a range of Internet suppliers. I can predict when it is the user's first time entry, since their visit length averages between 12 to 18 minutes. I can also see that a few of them are repeat visitors, which must indicate that they are enjoying the blog and are interested to see any new posts. When I evaluate the referral site I see that the majority of the entries are made directly to the site, probably due to our networking email.
I could not get Site Meter to "load" the mapped locations. Another stat Site Meter tracks is the location, usually by city and state name of the viewer. When evaluating this I can see that I am my own best fan. We have also had visitors from the following Connecticut cities: Rocky Hill, North Branford, Hartford, Sandy Hook, Newington, Wallingford, Stratford, Newtown, Cheshire, West Hartford, Wethersfield, and Yantic. Wow, alot of people travel to participate in the Quinnipiac Program. When looking at whose visiting out of state we have visitors from New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas, California, Massachusetts. Perhaps some of these visitors are a result of some blog comment networking, and of course, one is the professor. One visit was even from Germany, I suspect this came from Typepad update list, since I noticed this one night right after I updated the blog.
Other stats Site Meter reports on is the out clicks and exit pages. The out clicks are the links that visitors clicked to view content outside of the site. The out clicks data shows me that visitors had taken a look at the Site Meter (perhaps that was us), I Just Finished Reading ... , the Rockwell paintings, Ciga Rest, HowTo, Sleeping Giant State Park, QU links (blackboard, email, and schedule). The exit page stats show hte links clicked by visitors to exit the site. Most exit pages were the first blogging post. Which hopefully indicates vistors were interested in reading the complete blog. A few exited via the Sikorsky blog or the food and drink link on the Neil's donuts' post.
A few folks are also leaving comments, especially on articles that are directly relate to the program. The hottest items are the compentecny exam/books and the feedback/grades received from course. I have even received a few emails about the blog. All and all, at least the blog is receiving visits from the OL program meat and potatoes, the remainder of the traffic is considered gravy.
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