January 16, 2009
STATE OF THE SALAD
[CHARTS AND GRAPHS, CHARTS AND GRAPHS]
I started using Google Analytics a year ago to see if I could get a better glimpse of who was visiting Side Salad. Something about me needs to know that Monday's are the most-visited days and that most visitors trip across the site at 3 p.m. Color me curious.
It probably wasn't the best year to do so, since I didn't have a great deal of time to keep the site updated as much as I would have liked. But so be it.
To soothe my ruptured self-esteem, I refer to another rival counter that says the Salad has had 163,653 page views since 2004. So suck on it.
But according to the more depressing numbers from Google for the year Jan. 15, 2008 to Jan. 14, 2009:
Where do the Salad readers come from?
More specifically...
In the U.S., we're a little heavy on the east coast for some reason.
But we're very big in Blacklick, Pa.
Thonotosassa just happens to be one of my favorite Florida words.
One of every 1,010 residents of Odessa, Tx., is a Side Salad reader, per capita speaking.
We should probably run for mayor.
We're very proud of our bicoastal presence in Australia.
Istanbul was Constantinople, you know.
Chongqing has more than 31 million residents. That means one out of every 15.5 million Chongqingians is a Side Salad reader.
Saturation can be a slow process.
This certainly explains where Drew was in February.