Soooo. 2011 was a fantastic year for the scene, I would dare say. New sites, exciting hardware, fantastic software... what more can one ask? Sure, a new CPC model, but let's not get carried away, shall we?
The wiki did pretty good. To tell you the truth, I didn't think that after last year's stellar performance (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/cpcwiki-discussion/cpcwiki-2010-stats/) we could do any better, but by gods we did! Things seems to be reaching a plateau, to be sure, but still we're moving forwards... So, without much further ado:
- Visits up by 67%! That is, 208k visits over 125k in 2010.
- Over 81000 people (according to Google) have visited the site, an increase of 60%!
- 43% more pageviews (1.315.000!). This is not as good, since it shows that more people come here and leave after visiting fewer pages. Still, the time spent on the site is good, at 7mins (7:19 last year) so it would seem to me that maybe people visit less pages but they care more about what they read?
- Bounce rate is slightly up, 39% over 36%. As I said last year, I always found this metric to be a bit of a mystery in all the sites I've managed, but it does go hand in glove with what I said above.
- New visits are pretty much stable at 38%.
- The forum is the main entry point once again, but this time I don't care adding up the various urls: it seems people don't directly visit the forum's home page but many different pages on it. Interesting!
- 56% came to the site through search engines, which shows the tremendous potential hidden therein, if we ever manage to do some decent SEO'ing. 24% came through referrals and only 20% was direct traffic, which is quite interesting.
- Browsers: Firefox 47% (down from 51%), IE 17% (down from 23 - let's get this over with folks! :D ), Chrome 18% (10%), Opera 7,3% (8% - nobody knows a good browser when they see one!), Safari 6% (4,3%).
- Windows 80% (down from 86%!), Mac 7.7% (5%), Linux 7.3% (6.3%), iCrap 2.2% (.9%)
- Geography: UK 21.4%, France 12.8%, Germany 11.9%, Spain 11.1%, Australia 6.6%, US 5.1% (!?), Greece 4.8%, Denmark 2.9%, Italy 1.8%, Norway 1.7%. We also got visits from Surinam, the Niger, Somalia, Turkmenistan, Trinidad-Tobago (er... no, wait..), Congo, Burundi and a host of other countries that Amstrad has been opening local offices probably. Actually, the only countries we haven't got any visitors from are Greenland and a very few African countries. Makes you wonder :)
Here's to an even better 2010 - though I find it hard to achieve!
I visited the Wiki while in Trinidad-Tobago, Japan, Sweden, Ukraine, Romania, Tunisia and Morocco :) Do they really all show up, because most of the time it was with my mobile phone?
Bryce.
I was just joking, but there are 21 visits from Trinidad-Tobago, though all of them from Windows, Mac or Linux - don't know what that means unless you run a VM on your mobile :D
Btw, regarding the forum:
We had 1036 new posts (+25%), 18.582 new posts (+43%) and - wait for it - 16.300.522 page views (+967%!?!?) in 2011 (vs 2010). This last figure is probably wrong since GA gives a much lower total figure, so I'll investigate. But, wow.
My Trinidad-Tobago visit was actually 2009 now that I think of it :D How time flies. Done with a Symbian phone and in a Cybercafe too I think.
Bryce.
Did Trinidad exist in 2009? :D
3 visits in 2009, though again from Windows. Strange, location could be explained by a proxy, but platform? Do proxies spoof that?
2011 was indeed a great year for the CPC. It was also noteable on my page, where I got a lot of traffic when I published the article about how to connect a Bluetooth module to the CPC Booster+. But also after the release of the Batman Forever demo my page not only got more hits, but was also included in demoscene news. I guess that should be the way we should go in the future: networking to show that there are at least some last people who care about the CPC ;D.
Btw, if you want to have a look, what happenend last year, just use the 2011 tag (http://www.octoate.de/wp/tag/2011/) of my page :).
Quote from: Gryzor on 16:44, 03 January 12
Did Trinidad exist in 2009? :D
No, but Tobago already did in 2004 ;-)
Quote from: Gryzor on 10:13, 03 January 12
Here's to an even better 2010 - though I find it hard to achieve!
Can I borrow your time-machine please, I would like this year to be 2010 also, or even 1975 :laugh:
Quote from: steve on 12:37, 05 January 12
Can I borrow your time-machine please, I would like this year to be 2010 also, or even 1975 :laugh:
Still working on it, right after I find how to fix Google Analytics... :D
I have some "Flux Capacitors" left over if you need spares. But you're not getting my DMC :)
Bryce.
Well, could you at least create a batch of boards with flux capacitors for us? ;D
Only 3 years for hoverboards, flying cars, Jaws 19 (and the 15 previous sequel in 36 months :P ), ... and at last, i will recycle all my laserdics :D
Exciting time where we are living XDDD
Quote from: robcfg on 17:43, 05 January 12
Well, could you at least create a batch of boards with flux capacitors for us? ;D
Yeah sure, then you'd just go back to 1982 with your CPC to show off to your friends and probably leave it there by accident too.
Bryce.