The readership here at bubbleinfo.com has been evolving.
Between the market bottoming and comment section getting sorted out (from free-for-all to moderated), we lost a few folks.
At the end of 2011, we were reaching 14,000+ unique visitors per month, with 80% of them male.
Over the last six months, there have been 8,000+ unique visitors per month, and closer to a 50/50 split between male and female readers:
Other curious data points from Google Analytics:
1. There has always been a steady stream of new folks that make up about a third of the monthly unique visitors. These days, 4% of them come from twitter/facebook, and 4% come from piggington.com (THANK YOU RICH TOSCANO!). The rest are all organic.
2. About half of the visitors stop by at least 9 times per month, and 36% visit more than 51 times per month – thank you for your loyalty and commitment!
3. Two-thirds of the visitors stay for less than ten seconds – I gotta be laser!
4. One-third of the readers are using mobile devices (phones & tablets), and two-thirds are on desktops. For mobile users – the bubbleinfo mobile app should be out soon!
5. The age groups are fascinating – 61% of the readers are under 35:
Thank you for being here – I will do my best to keep it lively, and worth coming back! If you, or someone you know, is thinking about moving, I’d love to assist.
Glad to be helping this excellent website in my own small way! Bubbleinfo is the best SD housing resource out there.
The age group statistic doesn’t surprise me since you are more engaged with your blog and more tech savvy relative to the majority of your peers.
Just don’t get all hipster on us by wearing skinny jeans and growing a beard!!!
I’m only here for the shrimp.
Good job Jim. Those 1 second touches are bots and rss types. They count.
What “blood hound” wishes it were.
Thank you rich t!
Those 1 second touches are bots and rss types. They count.
So maybe the actual number of people-visitors is around 4,000?
I was happy when it got to 300, so anything over that is a bonus!
I added the cities too, and they only account for about half of the people. Bots and rss probably come from all over the world?
On the positive side, about half of the bots are female?
LOL, and the number is growing!
Hey! Where’s the shrimp? And the good coffee? I KNOW there is good coffee.
Seriously, you are in the sweet spot. Quality participation without the volume of trolling.
I’d still wish for a few more overpriced snarky walking tours. They made you.
Just wondering, how can they collect data information regarding gender male/female visited. Unique and everything else can be collected based on IP address and browser info. Any clues ..
NSA?
I’d still wish for a few more overpriced snarky walking tours. They made you.
The OPTs are stacking up like the 405 at rush hour, so I should be able to fit a few of those in….
I’ll second that request.
I guess we can figure the actual bubbleinfo-reader group around 4,000 or so of the returning folks, and the majority of newcomers are the bots and rss.
NSA can detect a Fem-Bot from 1/2 way around the world. Scary what people know nowadaze! Count me in as a male from Carlsbad. I wonder if google knows that for sure…I have sold with Jim and bought with Jim and he knows the next transaction is coming his way. I check in on the bubble a couple times a week just to keep up with Jim and the market as I’m a junkie