So, Woopra.
It’s been active for one month.
Excluding the freak results from The Day Of The Wikileak and visits from search engine robots, the Ministry is somehow attracting an average of 20.8 visitors each day – 603 in 29 days.
76% of these visitors come from the United Kingdom, with the United States of Yankee Doodle the next most frequent visitors (accounting for 11% of traffic). However, the Ministry has stamped visas from residents of Canada, Iceland, Australia, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Singapore, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Poland.
Three-quarters of visitors spend 0-5 minutes wandering the corridors, but 6% stay here for more than 20 minutes. (Why? Even I don’t find it that interesting…)
59% of visitors are running Windows XP as their operating system, 18% run Windows Vista, 17% are Mac converts and 4% use various flavours of Linux.
46% use Firefox to browse the Ministry, 39% inexplicably favour Internet Explorer, 11% opt for Safari and 2% use Google’s new Chrome browser. Sadly just 0.5% of visitors use Opera, which is arguably the best of the lot.
61% of visitors find the Ministry because of search engines (with Google accounting for very nearly all of that traffic), while 30% of the site’s visitors arrive here directly, suggesting more than 20 people have the site bookmarked (assuming they visit 2-3 times a week). 5% come here following links on Facebook, of which I am not a member.
Very few searches come up more than once, but one that regularly appears is for variations of the name Renee Fladen-Kamm. Amazingly, the most popular page of the Ministry – apart from the home page – is that containing SMIP #8, the story of Walk Away Renee: this page accounts for a full 12% of the site’s traffic. Billy Bragg’s never been so popular.
Among the more unlikely Google searches that have led here in the past month have been “sue grabbit run”, “thesauretical”, “alec baldwin 30 rock meat locker” and “mouthofthemersey”.
And to complete the stat attack, I’ve been intrigued to learn about my visitors’ screen resolutions. The most popular screen resolution for visitors is 1024 pixels x 768 pixels (24%), followed by 1280×1024 (18%), 1280×800 (15%), 1440×900 (12%), 1152×864 (10%) and 1680×1050 (5%). I’m not sure what this means but for some reason I find it mildly piques my interest.
As I said the other day, the thing I find most amazing is that the Ministry pulls in any visitors at all other than the ten or so people to whom I have given the URL, at least one of whom – and I’m looking at you, Minister’s Wife, even if you’re not looking at this – has forgotten it.
I do not advertise or promote the Ministry and never have done, apart from having had three t-shirts printed for myself, one for Domdeplume and one for julesallen. (Bearded_baby is owed one, too, but has still not told me his t-shirt size: this may be because that information is increasingly embarrassing to him…) I have left one trackback link on Popdose but otherwise this site is invisible, which is just how I like it.
Nevertheless it’s gratifying that anyone finds the site intriguing enough to read it at all, let alone to return regularly, and I’m grateful that you would spend your time here.
So hello, thanks for stopping by and do please feel free to contribute: everyone is welcome – we’re an equal opportunity Ministry. Unless you’re Nicky Fucking Campbell.