2008 1st Quarter Stats

Here are some statistics on how people used the Collaborative Piano Blog in the first three months of 2008, via Google Analytics.

• 18,407 visitors (28.3% increase over Q42007)
  
• 34,907 pageviews (22.7% increase over Q4 2007)
• Average visit time on site was 1 minute 54 seconds per visit
• 64.65% of visits were from search engines, 20.56% from referring sites, and 15.79% were direct visits

Here are the top 10 referring sites:

• Facebook
• Netvibes
• Get Free EBooks
• Google (not search traffic, probably a combination of iGoogle and Google Reader traffic)
• Blogger front page
• Google Images
• CBC.ca (via trackbacks)
• blogcatalog
• The Well Tempered Blog (Thanks, Bart!)
• Music Matters Blog (Thanks, Natalie!)
  

Here are the top incoming search terms:

• collaborative piano
• piano blog
• collaborative piano blog
• collaborative piano employment
• piano blogs
• the piano by aidan gibbons
• university of colorado boulder collaborative piano two positions
• composer-librettist laboratory
• aidan gibbons
• the piano aidan gibbons

Here are the top countries from which people visited:

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• France
• Germany
• India
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• Italy

Thanks for making this the Collaborative Piano Blog's most successful three months to date, and rest assured that this morning's April Fool's Day post was indeed an ill-conceived and completely irresponsible act of cultural vandalism.