April Tangst Report

April 2006 was a renaissance of sorts for Tangst. Regaining traffic lost in previous months, Tangst surged ahead to make April the highest-visited month on record, a distinction previously maintained by January 2006. Here is the traffic data collected during the preceeding month:

Monitoring Period: 1-30 April 2006

Total Hits: 10,103

Average Hits/Day: 337

Lowest Day: 08 April 2006 (169)

Highest Day: 30 April 2006 (520)

This month, Tangst further stabillized its Alexa Traffic Ranking at 330,167 (of all Internet websites).

During April, Tangst users surpassed 287 posts by midnight, April 30, pushing Tangst to 1,228 total posts at an average of 9-10 posts per day.

At the beginning of April, Tangst acquired the use of the new Google Analytics service to use when collecting and analyzing traffic data. Google Analytics differs from the in-house data collection stratagies on traffic analysis, though not significantly. A major benefit to the use of Google Analytics is the visual representation that is provided of many different statistics, ranging from origin of the user base to the connection speeds used to access Tangst.

Here are a few interesting statistics that have been noted by Google Analytics:

• About 80% of the users Tangst receives each day are returning visitors.
  
• About 92% of users visit from Cable/DSL connections, while around 4% originate from Dial-Up Internet connections.
  
• The top five keywords for accessing Tangst from a search engine are "tangst", "keri judd", "tangst.blogspot.com", "bunsree", and "pchis".
  

A last interesting bit of information provided by Google Analytics is a pretty aggregate overlay of the origin of the visitor base. Most users noted on this map are recurring, and return at least one or two days each week. (click map for larger image)



Please note that the Google Analytics data is unproven, and has only been in use since April 4. It will continue to be tenatively used and analyzed during the month of May to determine effectiveness and quality before a decision is made on whether to continue using it indefinitely.

As a final note, April brought the promotion of thewordofrashi to admin status, and the addition of the contributors Iced T and Graffiti Pastry.

More information about Tangst happenings in April 2006 can be found in Sithgirl's April Site Update.