We don’t usually spend a lot of time talking about page traffic on Village 14. I always thought who visits here was more important than how many visitors we get. But our web page administrator provided these stats and I figured it was easy enough to cut, paste and share. Enjoy!
Village 14 traffic over the past 12 months:
- 1,049,884 Page Views
- 76,217 Unique Visitors
- Average visitor spends almost 4 minutes on the site per visit and they view an average of 3.24 pages. This is far above average.
Past 30 Days:
- 115,513 Page Views
- 7,211 Unique Visitors
- Pages per visit is about 4.64 average.
Miscellaneous
- Visits come mostly from the local area.
- Last month the most viewed thread was “We Call BS”
- The largest demographic age was 25-34
- 10% more men than women visit the site
This is interesting. The age demographics are younger than I would have imagined.
1,000,000 page views–a HUGE milestone for V-14!!! I’m very appreciative to have this outlet to express my opinions. Thanks to Greg, and everyone else who makes that possible. Village 14 is a tremendous community resource.
Thanks very much Mike. Of course it helps that 250,000 of those page views were probably from you!
V14 rocks!
Those Russian troll farms have got be stopped. I’m certain Putin was behind the whole leafblower controversy.
Those are amazing stats Greg. I knew there was a big readership but had no idea it was that big.
Here’s a call to arms to all of you folks who just read V14. Try posting a comment. We don’t at all mind eavesdroppers but we’d love to have you join the conversation.
How do they get those age and gender stats? I don’t know that I’d trust them.
@Meredith: Google. I was a bit surprised at the ages too.
Congratulations to Greg and everyone who keeps this blog so informative. I, too, was surprised that the largest single demographic group includes those between 25 and 34. At 80+, I’m far on the other side of the age bracket. I’m wondering if I’m the only one who blogs or comments that’s hit this advanced age. BTW. My latest physical showed absolutely no signs of dementia or, more thankfully, early onset Alzheimer’s even though I get hit with this charge whenever I forget to take the trash out.
@Bob: Thanks, we’re so fortunate to have you on Village 14 and in Newton.
And BTW, I’ve been forgetting to take the trash out since I was eight.
Over a million! That’s tremendous! Amazing! The hugest numbers ever! The blog has the best words!
I’m with Jerry. I knew the numbers were high but had no idea they were that high. I too extend the invitation for more readers to comment including the younger demographic.
The age demographic should not be too surprising. Most people interested in moving to Newton are doing so for the schools …
Great numbers! I use this site to get a real feel of Newton
My guess is that this is an overcount of unique visitors, since many of us read V14 on multiple devices. I read on my cell phone, work computer, home desktop and home laptop – there’s a good chance each of those looks like a separate visitor since the site doesn’t have the option of logging on.
When making my first post on my new blog, my excitement at seeing how many page views I’d had was greatly deflated when I saw how many of them were me revisiting it each time I edited text or adjusted layout. Similarly, a lot of the page views recorded here will be people returning to participate in the discussions.
Still a great achievement to have built such a popular gathering place.
@Meredith:
How users are identified for users metrics
The Users and Active Users metrics show how many users engaged with your site or app.
In order for Google Analytics to determine which traffic belongs to which user, a unique identifier associated with each user is sent with each hit. This identifier can be a single, first-party cookie named _ga that stores a Google Analytics client ID, or you can use the User-ID feature in conjunction with the client ID to more accurately identify users across all the devices they use to access your site or app.
In early 2017, Google Analytics began updating the calculation for the Users and Active Users metrics to more efficiently count users with high accuracy and low error rate (typically less than 2%). The metrics are available across your standard reports.
This new calculation is applied to user data back through September 2016. If the date range for your report includes data from prior to September 2016, then sampling occurs. If you want unsampled reports that include data prior to 2016, then use the directions below to turn off the new calculation method.
For me, the most significant stat isn’t page views or uniques, it’s time spent on site (nearly four minutes). That suggests participants and visitors alike spend a lot of time reading the comments.
@Newton Business Staff – does that ID work if they aren’t using Chrome on each device?
Apologies to those not interested in technical details.
Does the 25-34 demographic not know how to use Ghostery to prevent Google from tracking their alleged age?
@Michael – more likely they don’t care? I use Ghostery for precisely that reason, which also means I should look like a new visitor each time or at least from different machines.