Traffic Guesstimators
Okay, this has been sitting in my draft file. So, since I’ve got nothing for today, I’ll clear this one out of the “Drafts” category of unpublished blog posts.
There are sites out there that will estimate the value, traffic, etc. of websites.
A lot of times, this is just a very rough guess, because (in most cases) they are not going to have access to the site’s actual data. So, the estimates are going to be way off.
Anyway, I was looking for links to my soon-to-be-relaunched website to see what was out there and I found one of these sites.
Their estimates were quite interesting. Here are a couple interesting bits:
1. 42% of the audience is under 18 years old.
2. 51% of the audience did not attend college.
The second one makes sense, doesn’t it? You can pretty much rest assured that most kids under the age of 18 have [not] graduated from college. There are always exceptions, but probably not enough to skew the statistics.
Then, things get interesting…
3. 61% of the audience has kids under the age of 18.
So, if 42% of the audience is under 18, that means 58% are over 18. That means that 3% of my audience are under the age of 18 and have a kid under the age of 18.
I guess I never published that one because it’s entirely possible to be under the age of 18 and to also have a kid under the age of 18. I think it just struck me as odd, probably because it generates images of a 17 year old have a 16 year old kid or something. I don’t know. I could never make anything more useful out of the post, so it’s been sitting there.
So, now, I unleash it into the wild, which is no big these days where quality has long since been thrown by the wayside.
And, for the curious, it looks like this post was originally written on January 10, 2010.
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