The News from ElephantToenails.com

Over the last 5 years it has been interesting to watch how folks use ET.com. Even though we are just one site among BILLIONS out there in cyberspace, I am glad folks visit and use the information in their pursuit and enjoyment of toenail collecting.

This post probably won’t interest most of you, but to you who have a little nerdiness, a little techieness, I thought I would give you an overview of the visits to the site.

For the month of March 2008-

• The entire site (all of ET.com) had 3594 visits (115 visitors a day), with 1860 unique visitors for the month.
• The average number of page views was 7.24- which is excellent.
• The average time spent on the site was 6.30 minutes
• Folks came to the site: 60% came direct, 26% from search engines and 17% were referred from other websites.

The most popular areas of ET.com were:

1. The News
2. The List
3. Recent Sales

The most popular areas of The News were

1. The News homepage,
2. Vintage Toenail Price Guide,
3. Collector Profiles
4. Toenail Q & A

Visitors to The News (my country tracker for ET.com isn’t working for some reason at this time) came from (and in this order):

1. US
2. UK
3. Canada
4. Poland
5. China
6. France
7. Germany
8. Australia
9. Bulgaria

Drilling the Geo search down deeper for the US: Top 10 States by number of visits to The News were:

1. Alabama- doesn’t count me (from 8 cities)
2. Ohi0 (from 14 cities)
3. Kentucky (from 9 cities)
4. New York (from 15 cities)
5. Maryland (from 6 cities)
6. Virginia (from 13 cities)
7. Penn (from 19 cities)
8. California (from 17 cities)
9. Georgia (from 11 cities)

Interesting tidbit: The folks from Maryland had the highest overall average time on the site with 10:34 minute average each time they visited. 

Now some highly techie stats:

• Of those who came from search engines: 61.5% were from Google, 17.7% from Yahoo, 8.3% from Google Image searches and the balance were MSN, AOL, Dogpile, Netscape and Earthlink, and in that order.
• Browers were: 73.3% used MS Internet Explorer, 14.4% Firefox, 4.6% Safari, followed by Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, K-Meleon, Firebird and Phoenix.
• Operating Systems: 84.1% used Windows, 11.5% Mac, the rest are Linus, FreeBSD, WebTV, Sun Solaris, RISC OS, BeOS.

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