After some short setting up (about two minutes per site), I’ve added Google Analytics code to start getting some statistics to these sites: CRICAVA Technologies corporate site, CRICAVA Technologies Open Source, CRICAVA Offshore Development Portfolio and Java Users Group Argentina. I must say I’m quite happy with the ammount of data Analytics is starting to provide after a couple of days. Eventhough you have to get used to the way they organized the information (I see a lot of UI theory work there), you can get valuable conclusions that are hard to obtain with any standard statistics package. Let’s see some of those.
Here are some normal statistics that I wanted to share obtained from our Java Users Group Argentina portal. First of all, if you look at the graphic below, you can see that our visitors are mainly from latin america.
If we narrow it down just a little bit, and as the following figure shows, we can see that Argentina (25.23%), closely followed by Spain (23.62%), concentrates most of the origin of our visits.
Now, a large portion of these visits are originated after using Google as the search engine. If you look at the following graphic, you’ll see that 80.50 % of incoming visits are due to google searches, versus only 8.99% direct visits. This tells me that, as we confirmed over the past few months, Google ranks our Java site quite high, which produces several visits per day.
One final note, something that wouldn’t have been expected just a couple of years ago. Firefox usage grows enormously. Look at the following image: 65.18 % of our visitors are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, while 31.21 % are using Firefox. That’s a 96.39 % between these two very popular browsers. However, we do have to consider that the majority of our visitors are closely IT oriented, so these numbers would change dramatically for a standard internet portal (such as a newspaper portal).
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