The Business Blog at Intuitive.com

Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymous Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and The Attachment Parenting Blog, discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

Cool search stats from my Lijit Widget

Very cool stuff. Now that I slapped a Lijit search widget on my busy Ask Dave Taylor (you know the blog, it's that free tech support thing I dabble with. :-) I get all sorts of interesting stats that I don't recall seeing with my previous Google Custom Search Engine.

For example, feast your quantitative eyes on this:

Total searches (last 1 days): 1213
Total searches (ever): 1213
Average searches per day (last 1 days): 1115.02
Average searches per day (ever): 1114.98
Total page views (last 1 days): 47724
Total page views (ever): 47724
Average page views per day (last 1 days): 43869.2
Average page views per day (ever): 43867.33
Conversions from view to search (last 1 days): 2.5 %
Conversions from view to search (ever): 2.5 %
Total Re-searches (last 1 days): 34139
Total Re-searches (ever): 34139

So my site sees over 1100 searches/day - and that's on a weekend when traffic is slower - which is pretty darn staggering. More interesting is that only 2.5% of people search for answers: most of them already did their search on Google. This is probably a strong testament that Google does a splendid job matching their searches with good results already, so that 97.5% of visitors are already on the content they seek.

Then there's this:

Not sure what's up with you folks in Seattle, but perhaps it suggests that Microsoft needs to do a better job with Windows help? :-)

I'm still getting the hang of Lijit but if you're interested, I suggest that you check out my getting started with lijit tutorial to see how easy it is to add this free search system to your own site or sites.

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