Archive for August 14, 2012
WordPress.com Weekly Page Views, 2006-2015 [CHART]
Automattic’s WordPress.com blog hosting platform just keeps growing. Traffic is up 25% compared to a year ago, and 79% compared to the year before that. It hosts around half of all WordPress sites in the world (of which there are currently 54.7 million). Read the rest at Pingdom.
Read MoreUS Smart Phone Penetration, 2010-2016 [CHART]
The share of the population with advanced phones will rise steadily from more than one-third this year to 58.5% by 2016.
Read MoreAmerican Smart Phone User Share By OS, 2010-2014 [CHART]
This is up 6 percentage points over 2011 and will continue to rise throughout the forecast period, nearing 50% of the total smart phone market by 2014.
Read MoreUS Mobile Facebook Users, 2010-2014 [CHART]
Nearly 70 million people will access Facebook from their phones each month this year, or 85.4% of the overall mobile social networking population.
Read MoreUS Mobile Social Users, 2010-2014 [CHART]
By the end of 2012, nearly 82 million US mobile users will use a social networking site on their phone at least monthly, or more than a quarter of the total US population.
Read MoreIntegration Of Web Analytics Into Overall Business Strategy [CHART]
14% of companies reported that they did not tie web analytics to their overall business strategy.
Read MoreUsefulness Of Web Analytics [CHART]
A majority of marketers worldwide say that less than half of all the analytics data they collect is actually useful for decision-making.
Read MoreOnline Article Consumption & Banner Blindness [HEATMAPS]
Eyetracking heatmaps from a 2007 study on banner blindness by usability expert Jakob Nielsen.
Read MoreMobile App Ad Clickers By Generation [CHART]
The youngest respondents were most likely to report having clicked on ads in a mobile app—including those on smart phones as well as tablets.
Read MoreCommon Tablet Activities By Generation [CHART]
For all tablet owners under age 50, playing games was the most common activity. For the youngest tablet owners, ages 18 to 29, this was followed by shopping, reading books and email.
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