Maryrose Lyons blogging since 2003...

3 Things I’d Like to Know

August 20, 2007 at 9:34 am

  1. In this Googlised age, how many seconds do we really have to convince people to stay on our home page once they land there? Conventional research says anything between 6-13 seconds. I think it might be more like 3. But does anyone know?
  2. Has there been any more recent large scale eye tracking done in recent times? Stanford Poyntor and Jared Spool are the ones I always refer to but they were done in the last century!
  3. Statistics abound on the many millions of blogs out there, numbers of blog entries, etc. What I’d like to know - in a graph preferably - is whether the number of posts has dipped since the rise of Microblogging?

These are just some random thoughts that occurred to me on a long drive over the weekend.  If you have the answers (or an opinion), please be generous and share.

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Comments (5 responses)

  • Stewart Curry @ August 20th, 2007 at 10:39 am

    I’d be interested to know about point 3 as well - there seems to be a look of comment and discussion happening on twitter, in ustream chatrooms etc., rather than on blogs and in comments

  • Gordon Murray @ August 20th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Ive recently begun working on something similar to point 1. I want to know the number of seconds people are spending on pages. I am writing a script that can be added to any site to monitor the traffic and time. Im going to add it to several sites I have access to.

  • Internet Marketing Strategies from Brightspark Consulting Dublin, Ireland @ August 21st, 2007 at 11:46 am

    [...] you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In response to yesterday’s post, where I posed the question about the real amount of time visitors spend on our home pages, Gordon [...]

  • Eoghan McCabe @ August 21st, 2007 at 11:55 am

    Yep… Would love to know number 3 too. Might see if I can track it down later and get some fancy graphs going. Although, if it was that easy, I’m sure there’d be info / graphs out there already.

  • Bernie Goldbach @ September 11th, 2007 at 9:02 am

    I know I blog less but that’s because I have discovered things like twitter, jaiku and flickr are very effective upstream sources of visitors. When I put something in those places, I get readers downstream on my blog. But putting compelling things upstream takes time away from my downstream blog.

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