META: Quantcasting MGoBlog
This week has been painfully slow for some reason, and I’ve been mgoblogging like a mad man. After feeling corporate guilt, I decided to be proactive and do work-related research… might as well learn work-related material on the company dime right?
HOWEVA, this led me to Quantcast. I think Quantcast has been mentioned here before, but it essentially gives you some statistics/demographics of a specific site you enter. Not sure how accurate it is, but naturally, I entered mgoblog and found:
- 26.1k people visit daily
- 70% of visitors are male (thought this was low)
- Perhaps most important to me, 4% of visitors are considered “Addicts”. These 4% make up 54% of Visits. Caveat: The definition of addict is 30 or more visits to that site in one month, so I disagree slightly.
Charts? Charts!!!11 (EDIT: I Guess no Charts... WYSIWYG issues, I think?) Link to site, however, is below.
Moral of the story… I guess I need help :( , but nice to see MGoBlog's growth, assuming Quantcast is accurate.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:03 AM ^
30 or more in one month? So once a day? I highly doubt that only 4% visit once a day. I would guess that most people visit close to once a day. Or maybe I'm just in denial about my addiction
October 21st, 2010 at 11:10 AM ^
Geez, if an "addict" is someone who visits once a day, that must make me a "super-ultra-addict" since I visit countless times in a day. Time to see a therapist!
October 21st, 2010 at 11:04 AM ^
I am beyond addicted. I may visit 30 or more times in a day. Also, what made the Tuesday after the Notre Dame game so popular to get 41,000 visits? A Tuesday seems so random.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^
Yeah I noticed that too. Went back and looked at the posts from that day and it was nothing that special, just a UV and a couple of Picture Pages. Maybe one of the posts (or the site as a whole) was linked to at another high-traffic site and brought over additional viewers?
October 21st, 2010 at 11:36 AM ^
I can only think of ESPN's Big Ten blog linking over to MGoBlog in one of the lunch links. I know that has been done in the past, but would they normally do that for the UV or PP?
October 21st, 2010 at 11:38 AM ^
What about everybody laying on the F5 key waiting for a UFR of some sort? I usually start doing that Tuesday after every game
October 21st, 2010 at 11:06 AM ^
26.1 k people seems really high to me (not to take anything away from this great blog, but still)
And yes, I would say I am an addict, first step is to admit it, right?
Thanks for sharing this odd but interesting information.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:08 AM ^
I can't believe for a second that only 4% of visitors hit the site more than 30 times in a month. Then again, I would wager there are probably way more people visiting than actually commenting, so I guess...maybe?
Quantcast is cool though, it's been brought up a few different times and I always find the info fascinating. Someone posted the hits to the site over a year once and it was ridiculous how much things spiked during football season.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:08 AM ^
That makes sense. I use sick days so I can devote my whole day to this blog.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:16 AM ^
Thank you sir.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:16 AM ^
First spike was the RR hire when the site wen back to 1996 white and black only. Not sure the recent spike. It was sometime around the Notre Dame game, I would estimate.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:13 AM ^
Forgive me for being ignorant, but how do they get demographic statistics like gender?
October 21st, 2010 at 11:15 AM ^
but how many kids, age, and income??!?!?!?
October 21st, 2010 at 11:18 AM ^
You don't want to know the innerworkingsof the interwebs.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:16 AM ^
Educated guessing.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
I would estimate they link your IP Address to other sites that may be more gender specific. If someone is shopping on clothing websites are probably more inclined to be female than those who view other sports websites.
Also, I love the demographics.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:32 AM ^
44% at 100k+ income? Dayumnnnnn.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:33 AM ^
It's the "Michigan Difference"
October 21st, 2010 at 11:32 AM ^
That's what I was thinking, but I didn't want it to be true. Those demographics are crazy. It is interesting to see what the MgoCommunity consists of.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:13 AM ^
I wish there was a way for me to count the number of times I visit a day. Actually, scratch that, I don't want to know.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^
It's impressive
October 21st, 2010 at 11:34 AM ^
Wait if 30 times a month is "addicted" what does it mean if I check somewhere around 30 times a day?!?!?!
October 21st, 2010 at 11:35 AM ^
mgocrackhead? yeah, me too.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:37 AM ^
Luckily, I never close the site, so I think that keeps me from being listed as an addict. But that should also greatly boost the % by addicts.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:34 AM ^
I wonder what the demographics of the other teams' blogs are.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:37 AM ^
i don't know if i'm reading it properly but MGoBlog is currently destroying SpartanTailgate
October 21st, 2010 at 11:42 AM ^
HA! Didn't even know you were looking at RCMB first as well.
October 21st, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
Apparently all those Save-a-Lot Spartans keeps the RCMB % of college grads lower than mgoblog -- or maybe the difference is the liberal banhammer I'm willing to dole out on those who can't form complete sentences.
October 21st, 2010 at 12:25 PM ^
My English not so good! Lubchenko knows it's phony major! I learn nothing! Nothing!!!!
October 21st, 2010 at 12:37 PM ^
I login at least once a day from 3 different devices - work PC, home PC and my i-Phone. Does this make me an addict 3 times over? BTW, I also will frequently use other PCs on the weekend if they are near by.
October 21st, 2010 at 1:05 PM ^
I wonder how many of these hits come from all of us "crackhead" users from different computers we don't normally use...
October 21st, 2010 at 3:48 PM ^
Like this dog... I click, I read, I close, and I do it again...
October 21st, 2010 at 3:54 PM ^
Holy pants, we are a pretty well-educated and wealthy MGoCommunity, it would seem. Now, Spartan Tailgate, pass me that glass of Bourdeaux while I dust off my leather-bound books and shiny diploma frames!