Saturday, November 15

The time we waste

In the past 31-day period, an average of 15 people per day viewed this blog. The smallest number, two viewers, was on November 1, the day of the memorial we put on for Karla’s mom; the largest number occurred November 11, when 69 viewers looked in.

The average time on site is 1 minute 7 seconds. That means on the slowest day, 2 minutes 15 seconds were wasted and on November 11, an hour and seventeen minutes of people’s productive time vanished. This is in addition to the time it takes me to put a blog entry together, which varies between 15 minutes and an hour or so daily.

I get a surprising amount of information from the Google folks via their Analytics Dashboard. For example, 41.40% of visits are from new people. People view 1.35 pages per visit. And for the reader in Newport Beach, people are avoiding you not because you changed your hair color, but because it’s time to change out of those stinky socks.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ahhh! It's not the the amount of time spent reading el blago, it's the amount of time actually thinking about what was read that is of VALUE.

For example, this week I've seen strawberries, oak trees, politics, and cousins pick-up and continue the pattern of their life after losing their beloved mother.

A transfusion of hope and courage and normalicy as I've sat in my mom's CCU room for a week.

Blog...priceless

Thanks Tom!!!

Love from the coast,
Lynne Smith

Anonymous said...

Sounds to me like Google Analytics probably knows what visitors to your blog have for breakfast!

Stumbled on your blog searching for something on Google. Great Read!

Fiachra from Ireland

Tom Hurley said...

Thank you both, Lynne and Fiachra.