Statistics: February

published at 01.03.2013 15:07 by Jens Weller
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A few short paragraphs about Meeting C++ related numbers from February. February is the shortest month in the year, so from the start, I expected not to be above January or to be able to report anything special here. I expected more traffic from google, as the blog draws some search hits to the site, which has become true. January came very close to 3k hits, so I expected to have something around 2k hits for February.

So, lets see, what did happen with the visitors graph in February...

There are two days who make a difference in February, or lets be exact: one blog entry. I started to blog about Qt5, and in particular about its Multimedia APIs. Turns out that reddit did like this blog entry quite a lot. Over 1.5k hits from reddit in total for February. This happened in two days, and dwarfs all other "spikes" I had in February. On the 7th I did publish my Trip report for the BB10 Jam Europe in Amsterdam, which got a few hits, especially from BlackBerry. This brought BlackBerry 10 in the browser statistics. Then, in the last week of February, I had the biggest German IT news site linking to Meeting C++, for the reason that think-cell kept word, and is now involved in the german ISO C++ delegation. In total Meeting C++ had 3641 hits in February.

I mentioned already that quite a few hits came from reddit, which is with >1500 Hits the biggest traffic related site, twitter is second, and everything else is relatively small against the others, at least in the referrer statistics:

Interesting to see is, that the blog entry "C++ in 2013" still draws a lot of traffic from the russian blog. YouTube has been a constant traffic source now too, with 156 subscribers to the Meeting C++ YouTube Channel. And then there is still the already mentioned german IT newssite heise.de, which brought about 50 hits. And all the others, there are some aggregating sites, which publish certain lists from reddit, and some subdomains of reddit (de.reddit.com f.e.), which are also part of others (Andere).

I'd love to show some graphic on searches, but there is nothing interesting to see. Either its 97% Google (over 300 hits), or its most searches being others and unknown, due to google not showing the searches for https anymore. The most searched phrases where C++ (8), meeting c++(7), Qt5(7), blackberry 10 c++ tutorial (6) and c++ conference (6). 176 searches came through https, and are therefore not known in detail. I am a bit surprised, that you already can find Meeting C++ by googling for C++ or Qt5.

With all the traffic from reddit, there is again some changes in the browsers statistics. I am bit shocked how many actually use Chrome:

Chrome is now very close to 50%, FireFox holds its position in 2, apple users still prefer safari. Opera and IE are quite close, but Opera is still favored. And there it is, BlackBerry. Actually BlackBerry 10 to be exact. 1% of all Browseragents. A bit surprising I admit, but the explanation is probably my Trip report to the BB10 Jam Europe.

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