Traffic

I thought some of you might be interested in our traffic numbers. We’re way down from the peak years of the site but there’s still a lot of traffic on BBAD. We get about 20 users a day, 5 of which are new. Average time on the site per visit is 10 minutes. Most posts get seen by a few hundred people before getting rolled off the first page. This doesn’t include the long chat sessions we sometimes have where posts roll off the first page very quickly. Interestingly, we get a lot of views from China and the EU. Chrome is by far the most used browser but others are not uncommon. None of this includes BBAD Chat which is similarly way down from the peak years but not close to zero.

What is bounce rate?

Bounce Rate is the number of people who come here, look at one page, then bail. These are often people who search for something on Google, find what they’re looking for in some post or other, then leave.

Interesting numbers this week. We’re down to about 20 new visitors a day (from about 50) since coronavirus, but the average visit is up to 15 minutes which is really quite amazing. I expect things to return to normal after this annoying virus is no longer dominating the world.