And hopefully you have the answers! Come inside to help me analytically!
Heh heh! I said, "ANAL!"
Well, I have a few questions for people out there on the interwebz that come visit my blog, whether ritually, occasionally, or for the first time. It's mostly due with how you consume this site. I don't want to set up one of those web surveys and give out information, etc .. so I'm hoping people will comment down below. You can do it anonymously .. I certainly don't mind. Answer all or some, either way it'll give me a good idea how and why you keep coming back.
The questions are as follows:
Are you visiting the blog through your cell phone, tablet, or computer?
If Cell Phone or Tablet:
- If you use a phone or tablet, do you have any trouble reading the caption?
- Does the blog look and function properly for you, and is it easy to access what you want/need?
Do you have me bookmarked, or do you search out the site on a search engine?
Or do you go to another TG site and click on my link there? If so, which site?
How did you find out about this blog? Search Engine, Rachel's Haven, another TG blog or site?
How often do you visit this site? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?
Do you just look at the most recent post or go back a week, or however long since the last visit?
If there is one thing you could change about this blog, or something you'd like to see more of, feel free to leave that information in the comments too!
So the question you might have for me is, "Why are you asking?" Well, Google for some reason sent me analytics for like the first time in quite a while, and I was curious as to some of the data.
Well, I found out that 2.5 times more people view my site on a mobile device than a desk/laptop! I would never have thought this as cellphones and such tend to be less secure, and have a much smaller screen to view both what I've wrote AND the captions themselves. I've recently thought about making the captions more like 1500 pixels wide instead of the standard 1200 pixels. I would think that this would make it even harder to get the whole gestalt of the caption itself if people are zooming in and scrolling to see the text. Then again, this is Google's Analytics which deals more with the search engine side of things. Still though, it's a pretty big swing from just a few years ago.
It also might explain why people don't comment as much. Perhaps they don't want to type or speak out loud what they want to say. A blog like this one really does thrive when I'm getting feedback.
The other thing that stood out is that around 10 percent of the searches for this blog were considered first time impressions. So either you heard about me and wanted to find the site, or perhaps looked for a TG caption image and came across mine. If this is true, I would certainly like to up my SEO game a bit if I can.
Many of the other questions are self-explanatory. If many of the people are coming from another site, then I definitely want to reach out to them and thank them for the links, and maybe we can work together on something that fans of both places might like. The amount of time in between visits is also interesting to me as I'm never sure if ONE post every day or two is better for people than say posting 5 captions once a week, and how many posts should be listed on the front page.
THERE YOU HAVE IT! Not exactly a fact-filled or fun-filled posting, but it would be very helpful if I got many replies back from you the readers. This is all so I can figure out ways to make this blog and even better experience for you to come visit and take your mind off of reality and read interesting TG captions with like minded people.