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December:
0s-30s 69.4 %
30s-2mn 10.6 %
2mn-5mn 5.4 %
5mn-15mn 5 %
15mn-30mn 3 %
30mn-1h 2.9 %
1h+ 3.4 %Dominique wrote:I like the different types of visitors I have – those who want to make a fast stop to find what they want – get them in, make sure they see exactly what they came for, get them to click and leave. Those spend from a few seconds to 3 minutes or so.Then there are those who don’t know exactly what they want and spend some time looking at options or getting some info – many of these are repeat visitors and spend from a couple minutes to 15 minutes.
The others are loyal repeat visitors who spend time exploring and being entertained. They spend a bunch of time, sometimes they spend hours.
Each type of visitor has their own value. Many sites target one or the other – the most popular being the get in, click, get out type. Another business model is to build communities with message boards. All approaches have their merits.
So there isn’t any one visitor time frame that is better than the other, it all depends on what your goals are. My site is old and it’s unusually broad in coverage. It just kind of has a life of its own.
The counts above can give you a better idea of what type of visitor you are attracting and let you cater to them better.
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well I think its a given that in most cases, probably all cases if you asked the webmaster, that we lose far too many visitors on the first page.
Here’s my question: are you better off to get as many chances (to convert: by that I mean as many eye-catching offers/pitches as possible in front of the reader’s face) : or are you better off taking what might be termed “the higher road” by approaching the matter as if you didn’t know you were going to lose so many eyes before they’d ever clicked thru to a second page?
Personally I think the edge falls to the first scenario regardless if you are getting bookmarked traffic (much less likely to be so fast to leave) as long as you are not making it hard for them to navigate by hitting them with too many popups or forcing them to find their way thru a confusing maze of ads to find next page links and I think it is a mistake to NOT “take your best shot when you got the chance”.
what’d you have to say to that?
bb1webs wrote:well I think its a given that in most cases, probably all cases if you asked the webmaster, that we lose far too many visitors on the first page.Here’s my question: are you better off to get as many chances (to convert: by that I mean as many eye-catching offers/pitches as possible in front of the reader’s face) : or are you better off taking what might be termed “the higher road” by approaching the matter as if you didn’t know you were going to lose so many eyes before they’d ever clicked thru to a second page?
Personally I think the edge falls to the first scenario regardless if you are getting bookmarked traffic (much less likely to be so fast to leave) as long as you are not making it hard for them to navigate by hitting them with too many popups or forcing them to find their way thru a confusing maze of ads to find next page links and I think it is a mistake to NOT “take your best shot when you got the chance”.
what’d you have to say to that?
This is assuming the bulk of your traffic enters through the front page. Not the case with me at all. Only about 15% come in the front door. Most come in exactly where they want to be.
That said, I like to push one thing at a time on my index page. Just what that is varies a lot.
