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Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by gregoryl »

rewind wrote: post #7
mmit wrote: post #6

What kind of joker correlates the % of people visiting hacker news to the hackers. You are retarded - don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Its like saying - lets see how many people visit a second grade news site which has a finance section, and that would indicate the geographical distribution of people interested in Finance.

A good feature for HN would be if someone adds a new account (one minute ago when I checked this one), submits some sort of trolling or moronic comment that gets down-voted a few times (which hopefully this one will), it should be flagged, looked at by an admin, then just purged. Obviously no good intentions with the creation of the account or the comment.

Perhaps it's an inherent problem with HN? Disposable accounts for when you want to say something that may/will be voted into the negatives.

Even so, I don't think purging poor comments is the correct idea. I myself have been learning what is/is not acceptable here by reading said poor comments.

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by allenbrunson »

rewind wrote: post #7
mmit wrote: post #6

What kind of joker correlates the % of people visiting hacker news to the hackers. You are retarded - don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Its like saying - lets see how many people visit a second grade news site which has a finance section, and that would indicate the geographical distribution of people interested in Finance.

A good feature for HN would be if someone adds a new account (one minute ago when I checked this one), submits some sort of trolling or moronic comment that gets down-voted a few times (which hopefully this one will), it should be flagged, looked at by an admin, then just purged. Obviously no good intentions with the creation of the account or the comment.

might be a troll, but i wouldn't 100 percent count on it. if you're new to a site and want to get attention quickly, what better way than to make a trolly-sounding comment that everybody will pile on immediately.

it takes some people awhile to realize that it doesn't work that way around here.

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by Keyframe »

pg wrote: post #4

I have no idea, unfortunately. We've never tried to analyze anything about the traffic except the number of unique visitors and page views per day. CO2stats would know though, since they keep track of where people are to analyze their power sources. I'll ask them.

have you considered using google analytics?

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by peregrine »

Keyframe wrote: post #13
pg wrote: post #4

I have no idea, unfortunately. We've never tried to analyze anything about the traffic except the number of unique visitors and page views per day. CO2stats would know though, since they keep track of where people are to analyze their power sources. I'll ask them.

have you considered using google analytics?

I don't know why he wouldn't have. Google analytic really pushes everything else in the market out just because of the price.

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by erlanger »

Keyframe wrote: post #13
pg wrote: post #4

I have no idea, unfortunately. We've never tried to analyze anything about the traffic except the number of unique visitors and page views per day. CO2stats would know though, since they keep track of where people are to analyze their power sources. I'll ask them.

have you considered using google analytics?

I personally avoid tools like these out of respect for my users' privacy. Log analysis is fine, having their data absorbed by Google is not. Also, using GA creates additional lag. Many times have I waited for a page to finish loading with the Google Analytics URL in the status bar.

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by gregoryl »

mmit wrote: post #6

What kind of joker correlates the % of people visiting hacker news to the hackers. You are retarded - don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Its like saying - lets see how many people visit a second grade news site which has a finance section, and that would indicate the geographical distribution of people interested in Finance.

Does anyone have this kind of data? I think we lack a standard definition of what a hacker even is, let alone usable metrics. Prove me wrong if you can, it would be incredibly interesting.

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by edgarjph »

gregoryl wrote: post #11
rewind wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good feature for HN would be if someone adds a new account (one minute ago when I checked this one), submits some sort of trolling or moronic comment that gets down-voted a few times (which hopefully this one will), it should be flagged, looked at by an admin, then just purged. Obviously no good intentions with the creation of the account or the comment.

Perhaps it's an inherent problem with HN? Disposable accounts for when you want to say something that may/will be voted into the negatives. Even so, I don't think purging poor comments is the correct idea. I myself have been learning what is/is not acceptable here by reading said poor comments.

The discussion spawned by the poor comment sometimes more than compensates for the little irritation the downvoted comment brought.

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by nx »

teej wrote: post #3

Here's the geographic breakdown of traffic to my site from HN. It's a small sample size, but hopefully it's better than nothing. United States - 52, Australia - 3, India - 2, United Kingdom - 2, Argentina - 1, Canada - 1 , Israel - 1 , China - 1 , Russia - 1

Argentina - 1? That's me!

Re: Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Post by epochiero »

nx wrote: post #19
teej wrote: post #3

Here's the geographic breakdown of traffic to my site from HN. It's a small sample size, but hopefully it's better than nothing. United States - 52, Australia - 3, India - 2, United Kingdom - 2, Argentina - 1, Canada - 1 , Israel - 1 , China - 1 , Russia - 1

Argentina - 1? That's me!

No, that's me! I think he's talking about his own site though, not HN.
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