Two motivations for this Rants & Ramblings post:

1. I haven’t taken the content marketing aspect of my blog very seriously and have been curious about who actually reads the content.

2. Have been wanting to see how this site’s analytics capabilities have evolved (note: Squarespace, at the time of this writing).

Let’s see what we find out!

Traffic

Overview

• By Device Type: 60% Desktop, 37% Mobile, 2% Tablet, 1% Unknown

• By Source: 43% Direct, 32% Google, 12% Facebook, 11% LinkedIn, 3% Others

  • Pretty interesting finding! In the Others category, it shows how many traffic referred from CRMs.

• By Browser: 46% Chrome Desktop, 16% Mobile Safari, 13% Chrome Mobile, 10% Facebook App, 16% Others

• By Operating System: 43% Windows, 25% iOS, 16% Android, 7% macOS, 9% Others

Geography

• More than half of my site’s traffic originates from Canada. BC dominates with 66% representation, followed by 13% from Ontario, 10% from Quebec, 5% from Alberta, and the rest is scattered.

• Another 20% of my site’s traffic originates from the USA. California, Oregon, New York, and New Jersey all represent >10%, with Texas following at 7% and the rest of the states are all sub 5%.

Google Search

• There was a massive spike in searches landing on my site throughout the summer. I assume this corresponds to my research / start up project.

• Top 5 queries driving traffic on my site: “joshua tiong”, “excel ninja”, “dhamma surabhi”, “burden of leadership”, and “merritt meditation retreat“

Engagement*

*Note: it bugs me that this can’t be calibrated for time period comparison or averages on a fixed time horizon.

5 most-read blog posts

Year to date, based on total page views:

• The Six Month Conversation

• Best Purchases of 2017

• Tips To Become An Excel Ninja

• Life with a Shaved Head; FAQ

• Joshua & Vipassana; FAQ (Part 1)

Interesting to me:

• #1 on the list nearly doubles the page view count of #2, and is more than 5x the page views for #5..

• This is not the list I would have expected.

• The capability to dig into performance for individual posts would be amazing.

Least-read blog posts

There’s literally one engagement on each. Who is reading these!?

• Bookmarks Clearing 2018

• Friday Five: Food For Thought (1)

• Friday Five: Food For Thought (16)

• Friday Five: Food For Thought (18)

• Friday Five: Food For Thought (4)

• Note to self: Never stop learning

• On good habits: disconnecting

• On Sabbatical - Month 3

• Quotes That Inspired Me

• Thanks For Your Help!

• Thought-Provoking 'Dinner Table' Talks

Final Thoughts

I wonder if I’ll ever be inclined to take writing on my blog more seriously.

I wonder what Squarespace’s customer segmentation and product feature usage breakdown looks like.