Statistics: 2013
published at 03.01.2014 14:42 by Jens Weller
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Well, before I might look ahead into 2014, I want to look back, how has 2013 been for Meeting C++?
So, some statistics on this site, first, 2013 has been a huge success and a very crazy year. And I think 2014 might become just as crazy as 2013 was. In 2013 there were 160679 visits to this site, 53533 came back at least a second time, so that is quite nice :) Also this means that the monthly average is over 13k visits. In total this resulted in 278188 clicks for 2013. The visits as a graph show that there were some spikes:
If I compare this to 2012, in 2012 I had 21200 visits, the site was online for about 7 Month, so interpolation to 12 month results in 36342 visits to compare with 2013. So a lot more visitors this year, I think the difference is the blog, which also attracts traffic from reddit and isocpp.org, the two best referrers I currently have. The above Graph is a little ruined by the spikes, those dwarf everything else. Most of those Spikes are related to a series about the papers for Bristol or Chicago, the very last is isocpp.org linking to my last blog entry in 2013 about pointers in C++. But there is a graph that filters those spikes, and hence shows the overall growth of my site a little better, its the search graph:
This actually is only google, which brought 25010 hits to my site in 2013, second is Bing with 228, so searches are 98% google currently. So what were the top search terms of 2013?
- undefined (most search engines don't tell you anymore the search term)
- C++14
- C++ Meeting
- Meeting C++
- C++ Programing conferences 2013
- Qt5
And, as I can filter for searches, lets see what the top lading pages where:
- A look at C++14: Papers Part 1
- A look at C++14: Papers Part 2
- Building an MP3 Player with Qt5
- Meeting C++ Start page
- A look at C++14 and beyond: Papers Part 3
So much about the top searches, but what about the top visited pages?
- A look at C++14: Papers Part 1 (29701 clicks)
- A look at C++14: Papers Part 2 (15291 clicks)
- Meeting C++ 2013 - Meeting C++ (13163 clicks)
- Meeting C++ start page (12029 clicks)
- A look at C++14 and beyond: Papers Part 3 (9173 clicks)
The highest interest is in the C++ Standardization and C++14 as it seems. But also, the earlier in the year something is posted, the better the chances to be in such a statistic. The first series about the papers really was a huge success, and brought a lot of visits to the site. This is even reflected in the referrers:
So as I mentioned before, reddit (34,5k hits) and isocpp.org(14,5k hits) are my top referring sites, a lot of traffic comes through them. Second is cplusplus.com, which did have a banner for Meeting C++ Conference this year again, so thank you for the support! And t.co is twitter, while mobilegeeks is a bit awkward, actually they run a story on adblock, which had a job offer at my site, so they linked to it. People are still visiting through this, but its mostly non C++ traffic. Next is phoronix.com, which did had a few news entries for my first series about the papers, resulting in 2331 hits from them. There is a lot of other pages linking and most traffic still is without referrer.
Last bot not least a few stats to the social networks:
As of today. G+ has grown quite good since the conference (or is it the yt comments forcing people back to G+?), probably both. Facebook, well, seems like most C++ people aren't anymore that active or interested in C++ on Facebook. I don't advertise on any of those networks, so this is just the normal growth.
Meeting C++ 2013
The conference has been again last year a big success, and is now for me the main source of income and motivation. While the blog and user groups enable me to plan and risk the risks of organizing the conference without going insane. The core numbers for last years conference: over 200 visitors, 2 great keynotes and 21 talks about C++. Fully sold out. More on the conference on my blog.
Also I want to say thank you to the sponsors of my conference: BlackBerry, KDAB, Ambrosys, Optiver , and think-cell.
And the future?
Can't say yet much about 2014, currently mostly focused on the conference, as this is the next big thing to announce, and the bigger the conference gets, the harder it is to find a fitting place. As this is still mostly run only by me, I have to see how things work out this year.
Also I will work on additional ways to support me and Meeting C++, for now I learned in 2013 that its most likely not t-shirts, as I haven't yet sold one. I'm looking for people willing to sponsor or advertise on Meeting C++, also I'm available for doing C++ trainings, the training page will become more detailed in 2014. But more details on this and that later in another post...
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