Statistics: 2012

published at 01.01.2013 20:17 by Jens Weller
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A little bit about the total numbers of 2012 for our project Meeting C++.

I am still overwhelmed with the success all of this had. With founding the local Usergroup back in December 2011, and travelling to Aspen in May 2012, Meeting C++ was born. At that age, still without name, but after C++Now I had the clear goal, to give this a try. After one month of preparation, the site went live on June 28th, to be ready for the launch in July. While Meeting C++ is a conference, I wanted it also be a plattform for C++. With the focus on local user groups, well, we are still working on that. Enough history, lets get to the acutal numbers.

Visitors. We hat exactly 21200 visits within 7 month, which resulted in 41917 pageviews. The Visitors graph is not as informative, as it mainly shows the huge impact which the newsarticle "Islands of C++" had on the site:

What you also can see is the end of the early bird ticketsale, and when cplusplus.com, cplusplus.de and proggen.org started showing their banners for the event. Most stats which involve 'volume' are impacted by this one big hit, but there is one, which is not, Actions per visit:

This graph shows the daily average actions a visitor does per visit. The alltime high here is this time the article at heise.de, a big german IT-news portal. As most people jump off with one or two actions, this graph shows that in the average the most visitors generate 2-4 hits. Also you can clearly see again, when our communitypartner sites started linking to us, the average flatten out, due to more hits on the site, and some visitors jumping off directly.

Also interesting is, where our visitors came from. Germany and Europe in general are very strong, also America:

As the tool detects the location usually with the browser language and some other hacks, the number of the US visitors is higher then acutal US traffic. Also on the conference we had no visitors from outside of europe.

Last but not least, the browsers, which is kind of interesting:

Chrome is strongest with 39%, or 8289 total visitors, Firefox follows on 2nd place with 33%. So 6% more for Chrome. Also IE(13%) is stronger than Safari (9%), and Opera(4%).

Regarding the searchengines, Google makes up 97% of all search traffic, and 1084 hits. But as Google often doesn't show the searchterm anymore, its hard to say, what is really the top of the search terms. Most searched is "Meeting C++", "meetingcpp" and "C++ conference".

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