Comments on: Comparing Finance blogs, follow up analysis

By: ricemutt

ricemutt — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:06:03 +0000

I guess you must have published this post while I was on my blog hiatus, but thanks for putting it together.

My blog has a lot of posts related to how-to-use/do-something-in-Excel/finance, which might explain my P/V ratio. Most visitors are new (87% during the last month according to Analytics), but they tend to be people looking for guides on how to do things, so that combined with my multi-page tutorials are probably what drive my ratio. Again, thanks for your analysis

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links for 2007-04-20 » mhinze.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:29:00 +0000

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By: Yan

Yan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:44:08 +0000

P/V is just your number of page views divided by your unique visits, and you can calculate it easily yourself. Looking at your stats, the current value seems to be 1.63, which is 1559 divided by 959.

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:09:20 +0000

A spike of popularity related to getting to Digg front page could skew Alexa for quite a long time. Most Digg users are technically advanced and a high percentage uses Alexa toolbar. Once on the Digg front page, the Alexa rank will be elevated for the next 3 months since the value is a 3 months average.

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:49:13 +0000

You can do it using Google Analytics, a free tool from Google. I agree that search traffic may lower your P/V to some extend. The ads you put around your pages do the job as well since people click on them and navigate out of your blog.

By: GOlbguru

GOlbguru — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:11:17 +0000

Oh yeah..I think I confused it with the earlier correlation results.

On this, I have a few thoughts. A simple P/V is a cursory pointer towards returning visitors. Earlier, my my Google search traffic was dismal and as a result, the percentage of returning visitors was very high…that resulted in a P/V of more than 2.5 on certain weeks. However, with the gradual increase in search engine traffic, the relative percentage of returning visitors has gradually dropped and that results in a lower P/V ratio.

I wish there was some way to track P/V history over time.

By: GOlbguru

GOlbguru — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:21:23 +0000

Yan,
I will make my sitemeter public for this sake. Can I get my P/V ratio?

By: Mike G.

Mike G. — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:04:29 +0000

Nice job Yan. You obviously didn’t fall asleep in statistics like I did.

So it looks like Alexa and Technorati do a fairly decent job.

What do you think the major factors are that cause Alexa to SKU?

One example I can think of is, if I put my site up for sale on a forum, and webmaster went in to check alexa rankings…