Hamlet Au over at New World Notes is researching Second Life related blogs for an upcoming project, he doesn’t go into details regarding the project but he has posted a couple of blog posts about statistics.
In one, entitled Second Life Website Still Strong in Traffic, Says SimilarWeb, he takes a look at traffic to the Second Life web properties and reports that the traffic looks extremely healthy. In another, which is entitled SL Universe: The Most Popular Site for Second Life Opinion?, Hamlet comes to the conclusion that SLUniverse gets a lot of visitors who talk about Second Life.
Those results are being debated over at New World Notes and statistics often generate questions regarding the data and whether we’re in lies, damned lies and statistics territory. However Hamlet’s project prompted me to investigate my own site statistics.
Search Terms
Search terms are a scary area, some bizarre ones turn up:
- no wonder why the drugs and sex
- strawberry singh has a testicle on her head
- passion that won t let you quit
Poor old Strawberry Singh! Who even searches for that? Anyway the top 20 search terms are generally more sensible, although the odd one or two turn up.
- second life
- ciaran marley
- social networking tool
- ciaran laval
- second life linden homes
- mmo
- secondlife decrease prim count
- conversations
- geeky
- linden homes second life
- can i use cloud party without facebook
- w9 second life tax
- casper vend sl
- penny patton second life
- convex hull second life
- join aka
- sex is fun not sin
- virwox good
- set a prim to convex
- w-8ben second life
I have no idea who Ciaran Marley is! Numbers 16 and 17 have me scratching my head too, but generally that’s not a bad list, convex hull, tax and account issues etc.