Gatorchatter Analytics Data - 3 years

[oxrageous]

Some of you may be curious about the growth of the site since it was founded. Now that I have a full three years of data (August of 2014 through July of 2017), I can show you some things. It might be cool to update this every August with stats from the previous year. The numbers below are from the beginning of August to the end of July:

Unique visitors:
2014-15: 73,466
2015-16: 70,806
2016-17: 80,394

Keep in mind the reason unique visitors was higher in Year 1 than Year 2 is because of the coaching search period after Muschamp was fired. The traffic during that time was monstrous.

Pageviews:
2014-15: 3,646,668
2015-16: 3,967,487
2016-17: 4,815,436

So, from Year 1 to Year 3, Unique Visitors only rose 9.8%, but Pageviews rose 29.5%. People are simply surfing a lot more.

Sessions / Pages per Session / Average Session Duration:
2014-15: 486,629 / 7.49 / 12.14
2015-16: 516,575 / 7.68 / 12.20
2016-17: 627,067 / 7.68 / 12.17

Sessions are up 27.2% from Year 1 to Year 3.

Some other interesting things. This certainly shows a sign of the times - the devices used to log in to Gatorchatter:

2014-15:
Desktop: 60.0%
Mobile: 26.3%
Tablet: 13.7%

2015-16:
Desktop: 55.5%
Mobile: 32.6%
Tablet: 11.9%

2016-17:
Desktop: 45.4%
Mobile: 43.7%
Tablet: 10.9%

In Year 1, desktop usage was the majority over mobile devices at 60/40, but in Year 1 that ratio is now 45/55. More people are logging in on a mobile device.

More to come.

 

[GatorSkin]

Pretty kewl

 

[Gator Fever]

It seems this site is more active than most other Gator sites now. Some of the others including the formerly busiest one have really dropped off compared to a couple of years ago. Curious to see if it remains the most active in the sports section once the season starts. People probably got tired of being told they couldn't vent on some other sites.

 

[oxrageous]

For all three years:

Ages

Gender

 

[stephenPE]

Imagine all the lost work productivity across the Univ Alumni workforce as a result of your website..............ox counts his $$$ and tinkers with the Miata while Rome burns............but seriously, I love this kind of data and how it works. You should be proud of your success. We all appreciate this platform to mingle and correct each other all the time;)

 

[stephenPE]

For all three years:

Ages

Gender

This is even cooler data..................keep bringing it...........5% are women (of which maybe .05% post) and some PEOPLE still wanta run em off....................

 

[oxrageous]

Top ten sessions by state:

 

[oxrageous]

Breakdown of Florida sessions:

 

[oxrageous]

Young people seem to hate message boards. We have twice as many 65+ people than we do 18-24 people.

 

[URGatorBait]

over 6% from Tallycrappy or Miami???
I knew some of you were trolls

 

[Swamp Donkey]

For all three years:

Ages

Gender

Just wondering, how do they categorize Jay and Sas, genderwise? I see a few missing options.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Young people seem to hate message boards. We have twice as many 65+ people than we do 18-24 people.

Twits.

 

[GatorJ]

Young people seem to hate message boards. We have twice as many 65+ people than we do 18-24 people.

We need a stronger Twitter and possibly Reddit presence.

 

[GatorJ]

Some of you may be curious about the growth of the site since it was founded. Now that I have a full three years of data (August of 2014 through July of 2017), I can show you some things. It might be cool to update this every August with stats from the previous year. The numbers below are from the beginning of August to the end of July:

Unique visitors:
2014-15: 73,466
2015-16: 70,806
2016-17: 80,394

Keep in mind the reason unique visitors was higher in Year 1 than Year 2 is because of the coaching search period after Muschamp was fired. The traffic during that time was monstrous.

Pageviews:
2014-15: 3,646,668
2015-16: 3,967,487
2016-17: 4,815,436

So, from Year 1 to Year 3, Unique Visitors only rose 9.8%, but Pageviews rose 29.5%. People are simply surfing a lot more.

Sessions / Pages per Session / Average Session Duration:
2014-15: 486,629 / 7.49 / 12.14
2015-16: 516,575 / 7.68 / 12.20
2016-17: 627,067 / 7.68 / 12.17

Sessions are up 27.2% from Year 1 to Year 3.

Some other interesting things. This certainly shows a sign of the times - the devices used to log in to Gatorchatter:

2014-15:
Desktop: 60.0%
Mobile: 26.3%
Tablet: 13.7%

2015-16:
Desktop: 55.5%
Mobile: 32.6%
Tablet: 11.9%

2016-17:
Desktop: 45.4%
Mobile: 43.7%
Tablet: 10.9%

In Year 1, desktop usage was the majority over mobile devices at 60/40, but in Year 1 that ratio is now 45/55. More people are logging in on a mobile device.

More to come.

Are unique sessions all different IP addresses? So my question is, does that mean that that many different people visited the website? 70,000+?

 

[ufgator812]

Lakeland in da house.

Breakdown of Florida sessions:

 

[oxrageous]

Are unique sessions all different IP addresses? So my question is, does that mean that that many different people visited the website? 70,000+?

Yes. 225,000 unique visitors have clicked on this site at least once since 2014.

 

[oxrageous]

We need a stronger Twitter and possibly Reddit presence.

You going to head that up? I'll pay you nothing to do it.

 

[stephenPE]

Lakeland in da house.

my home town.

 

[PastyStoole]

Even more interesting is the Top Gatorchatter Ad clickthroughs by poster. I didn't even know you ran ads on some of these sites:

 

[gator1946]

You need analytics on dumpers vs pumpers. As much bitching goes on around here, you have to wonder if we have a really good year will views go up or down. /s