It’s summer time, which means warm and sunny riding weather (except in Utah – 14″ of snow up at Alta one day this week) for most of the us. I’m spending a lot more time outdoors, and much less time on the computer.
But I just checked my Google stats, and it shows the average visitor spent less than a minute and a half here. So, assuming I actually get fed some decent news to report, does that mean I need to keep it short and simple, or do I need to come up with something that makes visitors want to stay for, maybe 2 minutes? Because it’s hard to squeeze stuff out of my sources these days.
Man, I should be blogging about Paris Hilton instead. Endless crap to write about there.
Cyclists are some speed reading muddy forkers. Retention isn’t a strong point but we are speedy.
Try this for your next ‘headline.”
LANCE DENIES DOPING INSIDE PARIS HILTON. JAIL TIME IN PARIS UNLIKELY.
I know what you mean! I have a LOT of visitors, and only about 55% spend any large amount of time, but those that do apparently spend a long time reading. My record length reader read my whole blog end to end in 3 hrs and 45 minutes in one sitting! He sure jacked up my page view value with Google Ads that day as well! 🙂
A lot of times these ‘how long were visitors on the site’ ranks are very inacurate. Usually measuring time between button/link clicks around the site from page to page. On a blog where the latest entires are all on one page it’s not surprising that a lot of users don’t click from point to point and recording much time. Google’s stats may be higher tech that what I’m using, but that’s the experience I’ve had. And something to consider and look into.