Now, I have already figured out that Sitemeter, she no work (let's see, one meter says I have 106 page views a day. But another stats I run says I have over 500. I wonder what the truth is....). But I did some checking on things, and found that the average visit length to my site is 45 seconds.
45 seconds. That doesn't seem like a very long time. Of course, I understand that this is the average. Maybe some people come here and realize, within 2 seconds, that this is not the blog they seek. They move along. Maybe others come and pour through my archives seeking the meaning of life, or at the very least how to please me (hint: it involves champagne, lilies, and absolute world power).
So I tried to figure out what you can do in 45 seconds. I timed things this morning. Mostly, because I am sad and pathetic, but also since I wondered what a 45 second chunk can get you. I learned:
- shaving my legs (knee down) - 29 seconds (although that may be a function of the fact that we have very little hot water)
- time for a Diet Coke to vend - 16 seconds
- time to pee - 56 seconds (but then I have a very tiny bladder and pee a lot, so it's down to a science with me)
- time to listen to a song - 3 minutes 46 seconds (the song was "Aisha", by the way. I didn't pick it, I just timed it on the radio)
- time to log in - 1 minute 30 seconds (fucking Microsoft updates)
- time to put on my makeup - 2 minutes 10 seconds (but then I go for the full deal, albeit in a "natural-look" way)
- time to read the latest entries on this hilarious site - 36 seconds.
Ah. 36 seconds. Without making a comment. So I am able to take in my voyeuristic recommended daily intake of the day in under a minute. So my 45 seconds is like overachieving, really. If I am the benchmark, that is.
Now, what gets me, is Jim's visitors have an average visitor length of 55 seconds. What does he have that I don't have? We have a ten second difference. Ten seconds! On blog pages, that must be like a lifetime! It's like dog years on a blog page. 10 seconds could be thousands of hits within your reach!
In fact, if you just read that above paragraph (and did not need "Hooked on Phonics" when you were a kid), that should have taken you just about 10 seconds to read.
The things you could have done with those ten seconds...they are gone now...
-H.
Posted by Everydaystranger at September 9, 2003 01:25 PM | TrackBack