Abstract: When Mariam put the site meter on the blog, we got a magical window into the lives of our readers. Not only could we see where they were reading from, we could see the referring link that brought them to our page. Not too many people comment on the blog, so this is where we really see who's reading our thoughts. Mariam and I have a stalker like obsession with our readers. We get hopelessly excited if somebody from England stayed on the blog for 5 minutes. After a few months of checking the site meter, I noticed some trends in who visits the blog. I've organized the data into a pie chart. Why, you may ask? Back off man, I'm a scientist.
Based on the data, one thing was overwhelmingly clear. Mariam and I are responsible for about half of all hits we get on any given day. Sometimes Sarah and Abby look at the blog too, but not nearly as much. To ever get an accurate count, Mariam and I would have to abstain from visiting the blog ourselves. This will never happen.
We can confirm that are there are some readers from our medical school. These people can be separated into two groups. The smaller of the two groups are people who like what we write. They might stop us in the hall and tell us the last blog was "super funny." We blush, and automatically raise our opinion of that person. These are some of our very favorite people. The larger of the two medical school groups consists of people who need to know if we are writing about them. They will never acknowledge that they know about the blog to our face because frankly, they just don't know us that well. (don't be afraid, we don't bite) Some of them might leave an annonymous comment about how somebody else was funny before us. (we know that we're not the first med school blog) The fact that my opinion of these people matters at all only serves to feed my very hungry ego. The only other reader we can confirm from medical school is Ashot. He comments so much that he gets his own division in the pie chart. He should be very pleased about this because everybody likes pie.
Mariam and I have a few loyal friends from North Carolina and Colorado. They visit the blog even though they might not understand all the stories about people in medical school. They even comment once in a while. For this we are grateful, have some pie (chart).
The rest of our readers are strangers. I believe that many of these strangers arrive on our blog by some miraculous Google accident. Here is a sample of the Google searches that have led to the blog (these are real):
1) She splattered the bug
2) taranchula chilean rose hair
3) I killed a bug and my house smelled
4) left side on human back
5) my name in the back row wall
6) karachi pimps number
7) Pakistani hot aunties
Searches 6 and 7 lead me to believe that some of our readers are horny adolescent boys in Pakistan looking for porn. They will not find it here. Neither will you. Sorry.
For complete data, please refer to the site meter on the right side of the page.
--By Farrah, who made a pie chart, restrung her guitar, played spider solitaire, did laundry, called her sister, and cleaned her room, but couldn't bear to open her behavioral science notes
Based on the data, one thing was overwhelmingly clear. Mariam and I are responsible for about half of all hits we get on any given day. Sometimes Sarah and Abby look at the blog too, but not nearly as much. To ever get an accurate count, Mariam and I would have to abstain from visiting the blog ourselves. This will never happen.
We can confirm that are there are some readers from our medical school. These people can be separated into two groups. The smaller of the two groups are people who like what we write. They might stop us in the hall and tell us the last blog was "super funny." We blush, and automatically raise our opinion of that person. These are some of our very favorite people. The larger of the two medical school groups consists of people who need to know if we are writing about them. They will never acknowledge that they know about the blog to our face because frankly, they just don't know us that well. (don't be afraid, we don't bite) Some of them might leave an annonymous comment about how somebody else was funny before us. (we know that we're not the first med school blog) The fact that my opinion of these people matters at all only serves to feed my very hungry ego. The only other reader we can confirm from medical school is Ashot. He comments so much that he gets his own division in the pie chart. He should be very pleased about this because everybody likes pie.
Mariam and I have a few loyal friends from North Carolina and Colorado. They visit the blog even though they might not understand all the stories about people in medical school. They even comment once in a while. For this we are grateful, have some pie (chart).
The rest of our readers are strangers. I believe that many of these strangers arrive on our blog by some miraculous Google accident. Here is a sample of the Google searches that have led to the blog (these are real):
1) She splattered the bug
2) taranchula chilean rose hair
3) I killed a bug and my house smelled
4) left side on human back
5) my name in the back row wall
6) karachi pimps number
7) Pakistani hot aunties
Searches 6 and 7 lead me to believe that some of our readers are horny adolescent boys in Pakistan looking for porn. They will not find it here. Neither will you. Sorry.
For complete data, please refer to the site meter on the right side of the page.
--By Farrah, who made a pie chart, restrung her guitar, played spider solitaire, did laundry, called her sister, and cleaned her room, but couldn't bear to open her behavioral science notes
14 comments:
Sally you are sooo awesome. I heart this post.
PS I swear I am being completely unironical! xoxo
I'm offended Farah, I believe I deserve a bigger piece of the pie than just 1% percent, how rude.
Hey now, you could have been lumped into Medical Students that only read to see what we say about them. You shouldn't be greedy. Plus you spelled my name wrong, how rude.
You know, this blog is really not too bad...I mean it has content, is somewhat funny and almost could pass for authenticity from the true backrowballers...but it is lacking in one small detail... It's not personal enough...I mean sure it is slightly humorious, but you have to cater it to people of all walks of life...good luck.
I think that you might be projecting your feelings about your own blog onto me. Just because you feel that your blogs aren't personal enough doesn't mean mine have to be more personal. As you know, this is a neurotic coping mechanism. Maybe you should look to humor, a more mature coping mechanism. In case you did not know, humor means you can make a funny joke about an uncomfortable situation - non-funny jokes do not apply. (by the way, humorious is kind of a funny typo - it might be my new favorite word)
Today was an amazing day! Nima, a friend from class, told us he liked our blog. For that we are eternally grateful. Roman, did anyone tell you they thought "your" blog was funny? I think not. xoxo
That pie was a great idea!! so scientific... with detailed explanations...
Bravissimo!
If you had created this pie chart when this blog was first started, I think I would probably have at LEAST 10%! But then my boss came back. :(
Welcome Marianna to our blog. Your comments are much appreciated, and I hope that one day you will even guest blog on our blog. That would be super awesome and it would bring the egos of the other bloggers down a notch! xoxo
I just saw you are there, Mariam! you know when you go to "who's on"... :)) cool!
I can make ads for the blog! That will insure increased readership from either friends from CO and/or anonymous adcenter folk. Maybe we can also get an increase in Pakistani boys who are looking for porn. Though few of my ads are based on any actual research or science, clients love numbers so here they are:
my super premium ads will increase unique visits up to at least 10,000 a day by the end of the year.
ps. delightful color choice for the 4% loyal friends from home country.
yay tor! Once this blog starts generating revenue, I'm going to hire you properly for those impressive numbers. I would love to have 10,000 viewers lured here by your clever ads. And I'm glad you liked the aqua! You people from my home country are so rad!
*hmmhmmcough* Iowa? Hello?? ;)
Actually I know of one reader you get that you don't know about - my friend Amber here.. I showed her your blog and she *hearts* it like I do. Even though we're miscallaneously drawn into the category of home country folk, and without even site mention in les blog. Boo. Oh well - if I could, I'd give you kudos.
Oh Lindsay, I met you in my home country, so that means in my head that you are from there! Next time I make a pie chart I will leave a space for Iowa and Amber. Until then, you can have some of my pie!
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