how long do people spend reading my blog?

  • yogastories · Member ·

    I write educational or helpful stories on my blog. I started in Jan and now have about 80 to 100 clicks per week, but are these folk who have stumbled across my blog because of tags they have used. I can’t tell if my stories are actually being read. I have noticed after every new post I write I get a flurry of clicks. Is this something to do with how the search engines work or is it the clicks of intentional readers? I looked at another web stats counter which records the duration of a ‘stay’ at a website. That would help me a lot to know if what I am publishing is useful.
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  • sulz · Member ·

    your latest posts will bring hits to your blog simply because it’s the latest. the more frequent you update your blog the more hits you will get, though it doesn’t work like that all the time. you can’t really tell if people are reading your posts even with time-tracking stats because people can leave a browser open at your page for hours, but not necessarily they are reading them.

  • rosclarke · Member ·

    You could try a post specifically designed to encourage people to leave comments. That’s really the only way you’ll know if people are reading. But also, if you’ve only been blogging since January, you’ll probably need to be a bit more patient in developing a readership.

    Try posting some links on your blog and developing a community of like-minded bloggers where other people might link back to your posts.

    Good luck!

  • tellyworth · Staff ·

    The web stats tools that measure viewing times usually work by tracking each reader’s clicks over several pages – if someone clicks on three pages over 5 minutes it’ll count as a 6 or 7 minute session, or something like that. It’s inaccurate at best, and doesn’t work at all for a user who views only a single page.

  • raincoaster · Member ·

    If you use the More tag, you’ll get a better idea of how many people read past the start of a post, because any post you use the More tag on should presumably make it into your top ten on any given day unless your old posts are hugely popular, and you can see how many people read past the More.

    I would guesstimate, though, that for everyone who DID click on to read it, you lost 1.5 people who would have read it all if there were no clickthrough involved. That’s just a guess, though.

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