Statistics: March 2013

published at 01.04.2013 17:06 by Jens Weller
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Some numbers about march. March was a special month, as the announcement for this years Meeting C++ Conference was finally ready. Two other events changed a lot too in March: a tweet and the start about C++14/Pre-Bristol Paper series.

I'd like to start this statistics edition with a paragraph about social media. Till March Meeting C++ only had accounts on Twitter, Facebook and youtube. Mostly active on the first two. Since March there is now also a Meeting C++ Page at Google Plus. Which already has 50 followers. Facebook had in March 100 likes for the first time, and is now around 130 (likes are like following). Twitter saw a huge growth in March, from under 500 to over 700. Reason was one single tweet:

Java 8 will offer an exploit API.

I was being sarcastic at a Saturday evening, not knowing that this tweet was going crazy for the next two days. Today it has over 1300 retweets and 222 favs. I had a lot more mentions in those days too, and gained within one week around 160 new followers. The only sad thing is, that I have to make jokes about java, to get so many retweets ;)

But back to the page, and here March broke some records. March has now the top 2 days with visitors in total ever. 2800 was the mark set by the Code Project Newsletter in September last year, nothing coming close to that since then. Till I started writing about the Proposals for the upcoming C++ Committee Meeting in Bristol:

The first spike is the announcement. The big spike is the first blog post about the papers for the C++ Committee Meeting in Bristol. In total March had 11317 Visitors. Which is the second record, its more then 50% of what this site had in 2012. Meeting C++ has really grown.

In the Browser statistics, the dominance of Chrome continues:

Almost 50% of all visitors use Chrome. Chrome and Safari include also mobile phones, there quite a few visitors with Android and iOS. Looking at the OS statistics, most of our visitors use Windows7, second is Linux:

Andere (Others) includes iOS, mobile phones, WinXP, Windows8 and others.

The Referrer Statistic has been slightly biased by reddit and the blog post about the Papers for Bristol:

This shows only the visitors coming from a valid referrer, so this includes not all visitors. 44% came from reddit. The blog post about the papers for Bristol made it to phoronix, isocpp.org and lwn.net. Twitter is this time only 3rd. Others includes a few russian forums, social media (facebook, google+ & youtube).

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