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.

Your feedback is invaluable!! I am getting good direction from the ET.com survey I posted two weeks ago. This helps me know what you guys want to see more of here at The News, and ET.com in general.   If you haven’t answered these few questions, then please do. Check here.  I’ll let the questionnaire run for a little while longer and then share the results with you.Thanks, Scott  

As most of you know I have been working on ET.com since 2003. We’ve added new entire sections, we’ve updated (modernized) The News, added The List, The Gallery (and The Catalog). We tried Toenail Talk but found we were overrun with spam/porn robots, so shut it down.

I’ve diligently worked to keep the information interesting, personal and yet helpful for individuals who like elephant toenail knives.

Well I need some feedback. It will only take two minutes of your time max. I ask you to answer a few very general questions…no fill in the blank, only clicking a multiple choice question.

Simply click this link: Thank you in advance for helping.