.. meta:: :description lang=en: Sum-up of my use of Google Analytics for 3 years :description lang=fr: Résumé de trois ans d'utilisation de Google Analytics ################################################## Sum-up of my use of Google Analytics for 3 years ################################################## .. warning:: I no longer advise to use Google Analytics, and I have entirely removed it from my webpages, and I will no longer update these tutorials. As they would still be available from Google Cache or Archive.org websites, I prefer to keep this page online. .. note:: This short page is focusing on *Google Analytics* For more information, it might be useful to consult first one of these pages: * this other article ``_ on this website, * and for instance `en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics `_, * `www.google.com/analytics `_. Quick historical overview ------------------------- - `This website `_ ``https://perso.crans.org/besson`` is hosted by the `personal pages at CRANS `_ (student association in charge of the Internet connexion on the `campus of the ENS Cachan superior school `_). - It has been `available on-line `_ with `this form `_, since March 2013 (and it's an open source project, its source code is available `on this git repository `_). - This website is powered by `Sphinx `_, to generate a static website (i.e., some HTML and CSS files, a few JavaScript files), from files written in plain text, in the `rST `_ markup language. - From the beginning, even with the ethical questions this raised, I decided to use `Google Analytics `_. I wanted to move to `Piwik `_ from a while, but `the hosting server for this website `_ does not support it… .. raw:: html And so, from the last 22 Mars 2013 this website hosts pages and got visitors on a daily basis, and I have a partial access to a few statistics on these visits (cf. the first commit). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Overview of this article:* - The next part of this article gives a small overview of these data, by analyzing quickly the main statistics. - Please note that this article has only been written in order to be *informative* and to respect my constant will *to be fully transparent*. This article was *not* meant to be pretentious, or to give any confidential information (Google Analytics only keeps anonymous data, in fact (in a weird way…)). Main statistics --------------- These stats have been simply summed from the data last accumulated during the last 3 years (March 2013 -- March 2016). - **27000 visits**, it is about an average of *25 visits every day* (but it includes visits from web-bots and crawlers so it might be over estimated…), - **51000 pages served**; and, weirdly, `this page `_ in French (`see its translation `_) brings about 10% of visits, and `this other one `_ in English get about 5% of the visits, - and a ratio of *83%* of *new users* vs *known users*. **Geographical origins:** - **157 different countries** (almost all!) in 3 years. But it's pretty consistent, I get in average about 100 different countries (e.g., 110 in the first 6 weeks in 2016). Most of these countries sent less than 10 visitors, and 33 sent a user only once! Just 22 countries emitted more than 100 visits, and without surprise, the first 5 countries share about 75% of the visits (by decreasing order, France 45%, USA 20%, Russia 7%, India 4% and UK 3%), - **5 different continents** (`I catched them all! `_), with 60% from Europe, 23% from America, 10% from Asia and only 1% from Oceania, - **21 different sub-continents** (`I catched them all! `_), about the same repartition (West Europe got 45%, Northern Europe about 15%), - **3152 different cities** (… that's a lot, but there is so many of them!). The ten most important ones are "unkwown/unspecified" (*25%* !), Paris (7%), Cachan (France, 6%), Samara (in Russia, there is surely a web-bot or a crawler there, 3%), London (3%), Hyderabad (India, 2%), Toulouse (France, 1%), Bangalore (0.9%), New York (0.8%) and Rennes (France, 0.8%). Just on these top ten cities, we clearly see the effect on the number of visits of my `current and past presence `_ in a country or city (as I lived in Paris, Cachan, London and Hyderabad between 2013 and 2016), and from huge "high-tech" cities (New York and Bangalore), and "important spots" of the research in maths and computer science in France (Rennes and Toulouse). **Languages :** French has 40%, English has 25%, "unknown/not specified" has 25% (!), and Russian, Spanish and others got 10%. Other statistics ---------------- **Browsers** repartition (which follows the `the global evolution of the repartition of web-browsers `_): - 52% of the users visiting this website are browsing with Google Chrome (but every one knows that `Firefox `_ is the best browser!), - Mozilla Firefox has 28% (sadly…), - Apple Safari has 10%, - and the rest few percents are shared by Internet Explorer (3%), Opera (2%), and other smaller browsers. **Devices repartition :** laptops (90%) vs mobiles (8%) vs tablets (1%). **Mean duration of the visits :** about 2 minutes (that's about half the time to read the longest of my articles, and about the time to read any of the medium-size article hosted here, so it's a good sign: visitors are really reading these pages!). **Referrer :** Google (45%), *"direct access"* (42%, this includes the various anonymous search engine, mainly the wonderful `DuckDuckGo `_), Facebook (5%), ``_ (3%), ``_ (2%) and ``_ (1%). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More images ----------- Have a look to `this folder for a pretty image gallery <_images/stats-google-analytics/>`_, showing more examples and figures, in pictures. Other website? -------------- `This website `_ is the one that gets most of the visitors (on web pages written by `me `_), but I have some pages with Google Analystics enabled on other websites: - Some projects hosted on this same domain (``perso.crans.org/besson``) have a different Google Analytics key, so they are showed on a separate GA database (*"view"*), but they all have very few visitors. - My Bitbucket ``_ and ``_ got about 5000 visits in 3 years (and `this small game is responsible for 20% `_ !), - My `documents for the "Computer Science" course `_ that I taught in a MP prep' school (in Sceaux (France) in 2015-16, got about 400 visits, for 1200 pages seen and about 290 different users, since August 2015 (so they have some recurrent visitors, that's a good sign showing that my students are using these documents!), - A tiny Python module I wrote in 2013, `ANSIColors `_, `its code `_ and `its doc (dead link) `_, receives about 1100 visits since I put them online (February 2013) -- it's ridiculously small but who cares! I updated it to support Python 3 in June 2016: `ansicolortags `_: `its code (ansicolortags) `_ and `its doc (ansicolortags) `_! - ``_ and ``_ (on Bitbucket), - My GitHub ``_ and ``_ got about 400 visits (since September 2015). .. (c) Lilian Besson, 2011-2021, https://bitbucket.org/lbesson/web-sphinx/