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Who Are You?


As a blog writer I am interested in viewing who, if at all, is reading my blogs. I installed a tracker. I use tracemyip.org but Google analytics and probably many other sites provide similar services.

So now I know a lot about you. I don’t know your identity but what I can tell is your approximate location, through IP address, the links or search words you used to get into my blog and even your browser, OS and screen resolution.

I was surprised to find out that in several months I had a few hundred readers. In a typical day I have two or three readers one of which is a first timer. 70% of the readers come through SDM, which for me means more of my blogs should be SDM related. Other readers either come from Google search with searches related to my latest post title (“up on the bridge”, “performance based bonuses”, “credit defaults” are some examples), from LinkedIn or from looking me up directly (probably family and friends). The last category of entries to my blog is crawlers; the web is swamped with crawlers.

I was disappointed to find out that a majority of the readers spend as little as 15 seconds in my site. If you got this far are not a typical reader! It takes at least 30 seconds to read 3 paragraphs. I will experiment with adding pictures to see how it affects the time spent on each page starting with this entry.
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