takigan Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Howdy folks. Takigan here. As 2008 has driven to a close, we as a site look forward to another year of fun and excitement that the year 2009 has to offer us. We are growing...more and more every month (over 6,000 registered accounts as of today), and each step of growth brings a new set of fun and exciting challenges. The Txbands staff will be hard at work over the next few months working on various new site features as well as cleaning up and streamlining old ones. So look forward to 2009 as it should be the best year yet! In the meantime, feel free to poke your head in now and again to see how we're doing, browse the forums, check up on things etc. txbands.com "By The Numbers" Here at Txbands (and many other sites that request it) we use a little service called Google Analytics. It's a pretty cool little tech app that collects our traffic data and organizes it into several different records that allow us staff members to see how much traffic we're getting and when, where it's coming from and the nature of it etc. I'll spend a few minutes here breaking down some of the more interesting facets of this data for you all to see: 01/01/08 - 12/31/08 Global Stats: Total Site Hits: 140,254 hits from 49 States plus District of Columbia and 62 countries Individual Page Clicks: 907,793 Average # of Pages Viewed Per Site Hit: 6.47 Average Time Spent on Site Per Visit: 6 minutes, 58 seconds Busiest Month: October (49,875 hits - 35.56% of yearly traffic) Browser Choice Internet Explorer: 70,575 hits (50.32%) Mozilla Firefox: 49,034 (34.96%) Apple Safari: 17,725 (12.64%) Google Chrome: 1,045 (0.75%) Other (25 other browsers): 1,487 (1.33%) Country With Largest Contribution of Traffic Outside U.S.: Norway (156 hits) Total Hits From International Traffic: 1,414 (1.01% of total site traffic) United States stats: Top 10 States by # of hits 1. Texas -surprise!- 114,188 (81.42% of all Global traffic) 2. California - 2,630 3. Ohio - 2,234 4. New York - 1,746 5. Colorado - 1,407 6. Illinois - 1,245 7. Indiana - 1,092 8. Oklahoma - 1,074 9. Michigan - 1,033 10.Kentucky - 954 U.S. non-Texas city with most hits: New York City (1,030 hits) Texas stats: Top 20 cities by # of hits (this is based by IP block so it's give or take a couple hundred hits) 1. Austin - 11,616 2. San Antonio - 10,449 3. Dallas - 9,274 4. McNeil - 8,477 5. Houston - 7,022 6. Addison - 4,085 7. North Richland Hills - 2,988 8. Arlington - 2,945 9. Bedford - 2,935 10. Flower Mound - 2,803 11. Carollton - 2,406 12. Hurst - 2,400 13. Coppell - 2,343 14. Spring - 2,226 15. Irving - 1,965 16. Plano - 1,900 17. Cedar Park - 1,748 18. Garland - 1,492 19. Duncanville - 1,475 20. Euless - 1,112 Fun Facts: Total traffic for 2008 was nearly TWICE as much as it was in 2007. October 26th, 2008 marked the largest number of page views ever for the site with over 59,000 page clicks occuring on that day (nearly 6% of the site's yearly traffic). UIL Area contests were held the day before. The only state in the United States that didn't make a visit to our site in 2008 was North Dakota . In 2008, people from 2,131 cities nationwide paid a visit to txbands.com Only 10% of Ohio's 2008 traffic was unique (first time visitors). Half of the non-unique traffic came from 4 cities with less than 1% unique traffic (2 of the cities had 0% unique traffic). Based on this observation, it is safe to assume over half of all traffic coming out of the state of Ohio is coming from less than a dozen different individuals. 91% of the 45 hits from Laredo, Texas were from first time visitors. 45% of Indiana's traffic came from Indianapolis. Another 20% came from the combined traffic of the cities of Carmel, Greenwood, Avon and Lafayette. 34 of Japan's 53 site hits came from the city of Nagoya. 33 of those hits occurred between October 12th and November 16th. 92% of the traffic from this city is returning traffic (aka. non-unique). Someone in Nagoya loves us . Japan's 19 non-Nagoya hits came from 19 different Japanese cities . 9 of the 122 site hits coming from the nation of Iraq came from ISPs centered in Baghdad. The remaining 113 came from points that cannot be traced (most likely military installations). 1.4 billion people living in China. Only 3 hits came to txbands from China in all of 2008 (and they were just network pings lasting less than a second :/ ). Broken Arrow Oklahoma had twice as many visitors as Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa is a major U.S. city of almost 1,000,000 people (10 times the size of Broken Arrow). In 2008 only 1 user from Egypt visited the site. They spent 3 minutes and 4 second on the site and clicked on 19 different pages. The visitor never came back to txbands ever again . There are several logical explanations as to how this might have transpired, but I can't help but imagine some turban-sporting Egyptian surfing the internet one day and randomly running into "txbands.com" and saying (in English with an Egyptian accent) "Ooo, Texas Marching Band". He then spends exactly 3 minutes and 4 seconds reading about the exploits of legendary marching bands like LD Bell and Marcus and after realizing it has no relevance to his meager life of sand and camels, he never returns there again. In 2008 1 person from Abbeville Texas visited the site. They spent 29 minutes and 40 seconds on the site and clicked on 58 different pages. This user never visited txbands again. 97% of Englewood Colorado's 550 hits was returning traffic. The average user visits 3 times as many pages as the average txbands user and spends 5 times longer on the site per visit . 76% of Duncanville Texas's 1,475 hits came from returning traffic. The average Duncanville user spends 4 times as much time on txbands than the average user per visit and visits twice as many pages . 90% of Huntsville Texas's 877 hits came from returning traffic. The average Huntsville user spends twice as much time per visit as the average txbands user and views twice as many pages . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danpod Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Screw North Dakota. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 76% of Duncanville Texas's 1,475 hits came from returning traffic. The average Duncanville user spends 4 times as much time on txbands than the average user per visit and visits twice as many pages . You need to add in users from Addison TX (I haven't checked to see if that's what I actually show up as from work) to that Duncanville number. And I have no idea what I show up as when I have my laptop connected via either my cellphone or my Sprint Mobile Internet card (when I'm at a stadium that doesn't have WiFi). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmbalash Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'll take a guess here and say I'm the brunt of the Illinois traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebellbrass07 Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 97% of Englewood Colorado's 550 hits was returning traffic. The average user visits 3 times as many pages as the average txbands user and spends 5 times longer on the site per visit . [/font] I'd be wiling to say 90% of those hits were from me. If you type Englewood, Colorado onto google maps you can actually see my campus right under the little curve on I-25. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I'd be wiling to say 90% of those hits were from me. If you type Englewood, Colorado onto google maps you can actually see my campus right under the little curve on I-25. Only 90%? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebellbrass07 Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Give or take a few percentages... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treblemaker Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Brandon? Have I told you lately that you are amazing? Too bad my secret city gets combined with some other dumb dirty city so I'm not important anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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