HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
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Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#2Interesting, that ties in with my observations of around 700 visitors per hour on the front page - http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/whats-the-front-page-of-hack...
While I didn't track engagement time, I looked at number of comments (both here and on my posts, and shares on Twitter and Facebook) to try and figure out how much of it was "real" traffic.
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#3I suspect that if you only make one page view, Google will assume your visit was 0 seconds. Most HN visitors will read the article and close the tab.
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#4If the article is long, I usually add it to instapaper or pocket to read later. The time spent on the actual site is low but I still engage with the content.
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#5at this rate, I'm now hoping that I can do an analysis of the analysis of a viral post that also have gone viral. how awesome would that be? :)
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#6If the article is long, I usually add it to instapaper or pocket to read later. The time spent on the actual site is low but I still engage with the content.
good point, I'll keep an eye on returning visitor metric over the next few days
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#7Analytics calculates the time on page by the time difference _between_ page hits. One hit: 0 seconds on site. Because of this, it isn't an accurate metric to measure engagement for a single blog post.
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#8These data are not being interpreted correctly. Analytics calculates time-on-page based on the time between loads of the google JS embedded in your pages. Any visitor who 'bounces' - that is, only visits a single page - only loads the JS once, so their time-on-page is recorded as 0 seconds, regardless of how long they actually spent on the page.
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#9Analytics calculates the time on page by the time difference _between_ page hits. One hit: 0 seconds on site. Because of this, it isn't an accurate metric to measure engagement for a single blog post.
I assumed they have some fancy javascript thing to take care of that? what would you suggest to use to estimate actually readership?
Re: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
#10These data are not being interpreted correctly. Analytics calculates time-on-page based on the time between loads of the google JS embedded in your pages. Any visitor who 'bounces' - that is, only visits a single page - only loads the JS once, so their time-on-page is recorded as 0 seconds, regardless of how long they actually spent on the page.
Exactly what I came here to say. Those people could have spent 10 hours really absorbing that one article and their time would have still been recorded as 0 seconds.