My OTHER recent off-topic post about Ubuntu/Linux [ http://blogoscoped.com/forum/150230.html] got me thinking about not just what OS Blogoscoped users run, but their browsers, locations, and anything else. Philipp, is there an easy way for you to collect and publish this data somewhere on blogoscoped? I think it'd be interesting to see
Anyone else like the idea ? |
You can certainly retrieve all this from Google Analytics... |
Does someone know how I can select just the data for people visiting a specific URL on Blogoscoped, say, blogoscoped.com/forum/ or blogoscoped.com/forum/create/ ? This way, I think it would more closely mirror the systems those of us Blogoscoped members use.
For instance, sub-pages like http://blogoscoped.com/files/stripes.html are very popular (that one is the most visited page on the domain at the moment!) but I bet is mostly visited by users who are not so much regulars you meet in the forum... |
You can easily do this with Advanced Segments (although then the reports will be based on sampled data).
Under "Settings" on the left, select "Advanced Segments" and then click "+ Create new custom segment" in the top right.
From the "Dimensions" box on the left, drag "Page" from the "Content" section into the box which says "dimension or metric". Change the condition to "Starts with" and enter "/forum/" as the value. Give the segment a name – e.g. Visits to Google Blogoscoped Forum – and save it.
Go back to your Analytics dashboard and choose:
e.g. Visitors > Browser Capabilities > Browsers and OS
In the top right, you'll see a drop down:
Advanced Segments: All Visits
Click that, deselect "All Visits" under "Default Segments" and instead choose the segment you created above which should appear under "Custom Segments".
That will theoretically have filtered out any visitors who didn't visit the forum. (If you leave "All Visits" selected, it will actually plot both segments on the graph so that you can see what proportion of the site's total visitors visited the forum.) |
Now that was a terrific tutorial!! Thanks!
Here are the stats for everyone who visits the forum:
1. Firefox / Windows 26.71%
2. Internet Explorer / Windows 22.43%
3. Chrome / Windows 17.87%
4. Firefox / Macintosh 13.11%
5. Firefox / Linux 6.86%
6. Opera / Windows 5.14%
7. Safari / iPhone 1.89%
8. Safari / Macintosh 1.72%
9. Blazer / PalmOS 1.31%
10. Mozilla / Macintosh 0.81% |
PS: I used "matches exactly" for /forum/ |
"3. Chrome / Windows 17.87%" => WOW! I've never seen Chrome so high.
I bet this market share, as well as "Firefox / Linux", reaches 0% on Microsoft Blogoscoped Forum ^^ |
It would be interesting to see the comparable figures for your "stripes" page.
Here's what I'm getting on quezi.com:
1. Internet Explorer / Windows 49.12%
2. Firefox / Windows 30.96%
3. Firefox / Linux 5.07%
4. Safari / Macintosh 4.08%
5. Opera / Windows 3.02%
6. Firefox / Macintosh 2.77%
7. Opera / Linux 1.84%
8. Chrome / Windows 1.75%
9. Safari / iPhone 0.36%
10. Safari / Windows 0.21%
and here's what I'm getting on uclue.com:
1. Internet Explorer / Windows: 48.55%
2. Firefox / Windows: 32.91%
3. Firefox / Macintosh: 3.95%
4. Safari / Macintosh: 3.50%
5. Chrome / Windows: 2.66%
6. Firefox / Linux: 2.41%
7. Opera / Windows: 1.58%
8. Mozilla / Windows: 1.41%
9. Mozilla / unspecified: 1.28%
10. Safari / iPhone: 0.29%
Three things stand out about these figures and Philipp's figures:
1. The ongoing rise of Firefox on Windows, despite the default installation of IE
2. The rise of Chrome. Even 2% is very impressive for a new entrant to an established market
3. The rise of iPhone. For one specific phone to appear in the top 10 is very impressive |
Can this info be added like a gadget somewhere on blogoscoped so that it would always be up-to-date? |
I'm part of 1.72 percent :D
Yay for being a minority! :P
To be fair, I used to use FF on my Mac but I started getting annoyed by how it didn't fit in.
Philipp, if it's not too much bother, would you be able to show in any way how browser/OS usage has changed over the years?
+1 for amazing Chrome usage stats. I will probably use the Mac version when it come out if:
1. It is fast like the Windows version (with which i was very impresses, aside from some small niggles)
2. It fits in with Mac OS X and the Zoom to Content button works properly, unlike Firefox for mac, where it acts like it's windows counterpart for some annoying reason. |
> It would be interesting to see the comparable figures
> for your "stripes" page.
There were over 100,000 visits to the Stripes page during the last month time frame. Here are the stats:
1. Internet Explorer / Windows 71.67%
2. Firefox / Windows 20.77%
3. Firefox / Macintosh 3.30%
4. Safari / Macintosh 1.26%
5. Chrome / Windows 1.23%
6. Opera / Windows 0.69%
7. Firefox / Linux 0.55%
8. Safari / Windows 0.14%
9. Safari / iPhone 0.06%
10. Playstation 3 / Playstation 3 0.05%
> Philipp, if it's not too much bother, would you be able to show in
> any way how browser/OS usage has changed over the years?
Here are the forum start page visits from the time span as some comments higher up, but from 2007:
1. Firefox / Windows 58.94%
2. Internet Explorer / Windows 25.46%
3. Firefox / Linux 5.27%
4. Firefox / Macintosh 3.19%
5. Opera / Windows 3.09% |
Amazing, Firefox has taken over IE on this blog in such a short space of time |
