I have to admit, in the roughtly two years I’ve authored and now own Artnewyorkcity.com, I’ve always been a little in the dark about it’s popularity and it’s metrics - sure I got some, but they were very basic and didn’t give me much to work with - and being an Artist and a Web Analyst, someone who’s fairly well known in the Analytics Industry, not having good metrics was like ….. flying blind.

But tonight, I noticed that Google Analytics is working for this blog - and probably has for a while - and I just noticed it now (I gave up hope a while back - it seemed getting GA to work on WordPress was not as direct as it needed to be and loading an Application is neccessary).

I don’t want to go into details but I do want to say something about my blog that is absolutely fantastic - and as a Web Analyst - I must say it.

The Bounce Rate on ArtNewYorkCity.com is the lowest I’ve ever seen for any site I have looked at via Web Analytics - it’s less than 5%!

Do you know what the Bounce rate is on my Web Analytics Blog - WebMetricsGuru.com - around 85%

You know what that means?

95% of the visitors to this blog look at more than one page … and you know what? The average visitor looks at more than 5 pages of this blog on an average visit.

That’s fantasitc!   Far better than the average -  I had no idea my blog was that “engaging”….. well, well, pictures speak louder than words - and inspire me to do a hell of a lot more, now I know what I’m looking at.

What else can I say about Artnewyorkcity.com’s traffic, without saying too much  … just good things - that a good chunk of my traffic came from Google Images, as to be expected for an Art Blog.   Granted, the average visitor doesn’t spend that much time on my blog - a bit less than a minute - but since they’re looking at pictures, more often than not, you can look at a lot of stuff in less than a minute - if your into pictures.

And let’s face it - they read my writings too.

About 25% of my traffic is from New York State - (what’d you expect - this is a blog about New York Art) and a lot of visitors like the photography articles.

So you know what - if I know what my readers like ….. and I now know that - I’ll cover more photography - because my readers want me to -  they respond to me writing about it.

Time for me to go to some more openings, and more photography openings.