Statistics: April 2013

published at 01.05.2013 11:55 by Jens Weller
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Some words and numbers on the statistics for April. April has broken several records, and the website saw a new all time high in visitors.

I started in March a small Series about the papers of the pre-Bristol mailing, containing most (but not all) papers that would be handled in Bristol. I didn't cover the January mailing, but roughly 80 papers in 3 Weeks was enough already :) From the first post on, I saw a lot of hits on my blog for this series, which continued in April 1st having 4500, and April 2nd having over 5000 hits. Releasing Part 2 and 3 brought a lot of interest to the site. A look at the graph shows that the rest of the month still saw a lot of visitors:

In total April had 29536 visitors, the first two days breaking the record for visitors-per-day. In comparison: 2012 only had 21200 in total. So, not even 1% of our visitors could buy a ticket for this years conference in April. Still, ticket sales are pretty low, as most people seem to wait for the release of the schedule in June.

With all the traffic, where did all the people come from? A Question I can answer in more detail now, as I have activated a GeoIP Tool now, based on a database your IP is matched to a reason, still locally at the server. Its not very accurate, but mostly enough for Country and Region, some times city. But first a short look at the referrer statistics:

In 2012 isocpp.org started, and Meeting C++ is listed in their event section, plus every one of the blog entries for the Bristol mailing was also linked in the news there. So, that's how isocpp.org is now at the 2nd place. I was curious for this, as this clearly shows the success of isocpp.org! And first place is reddit, with about 8000 hits. The first two or three blog entries in the series were also posted to lwn and phoronix, which makes them show up in this listing on place 3 and 4. Twitter is 5th, others include G+, facebook and a lot of other sites linking to the series.

So, with GeoIP, I can see a little more then just which language the browser has of my visitor, which was till now the source for location information for visitors. This brings a few changes, first, less visitors from America, as many people use browsers with the default (US) settings, but are infact from a nother country. And secondly, a lot of visitors from smaller countries, resulting in a pretty blue worldmap, but not really highlighting the countries with the most visitors. The Top 2 are USA and Germany. Which I'd like to show in the city/region view, showing where most of my visitors from those countries are coming from:

USA:

So, biggest bubble: San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Bay Area. Can't break this down further, Los Angeles/San Diego and Seattle are also pretty strong. The big dot under Seattle is Portland, where Intel hosted last years C++ Committee meeting. So West Coast is very strong. You also can see Chicago and Austin pretty well. East Coast has its strength in the New York area, plus Cambridge/Boston.

I'd love to have this view also for the world or continents, especially for europe, but its in this detail only available for countries yet. So, where do my german visitors come from?

So, for April Berlin is the city with the most visitors, but for the last 7 days that's not true anymore, in fact its currently for the last week Ulm. Munich isn't as strong as I thought, but the south of Germany is very strong still, with left-to-right Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Munich. My Home state NRW is strongest in numbers, Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund are the towns with numbers in the circles here. In the east, you can see what an impact a user group can make, Dresden would probably not that strong without this. In the north its Bremen and Hamburg.

Worldwide the top regions are:

• California (with a big lead)
• New York (state)
• London (City of)
• Texas
• Ontario
• NRW (Germany)
• Baden-Würtemberg (Germany)
• Bavaria
• Moscow
• Washington (State)

Top 10 Cities:

• London
• Moscow
• Kiev
• New York
• Berlin
• San Francisco
• San Jose
• Tokyo
• Montreal
• Saint Petersburg

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