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percentage of web hits immediately after going public?

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yhlee

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does anyone know or have a link/statistics on what percentage of people access your website after getting the "please visit us" email (obviously non-spam)? i tried searching myself but i "suck at the google"

or more importantly, what percentage of people who eventually come to your site access it within the first X hours of receiving the email?

thanks 🙂

-young
 
It will vary depending upon what your message is and the audience you have targeted for your spam. I don't know that you'll find statistics that will reflect accurately what you are asking as it is too vague, it seems. If you have a well written message to a targeted audience that has shown past interest in the theme of your message obviously you can expect a certain amount of traffic, as much as 25% or so. If your spam is to people you happen to have e-mail addresses for, but they have never shown specific interest in your product, service, etc., then you can probably expect about one visit in 100 spam-mails.
 
oh this isn't spam. i work at a university as a programmer/manager and my department is making public a new educational initiative. the problem is, the webpage doesn't seem to be ready (in my opinion) but they want to get the email out the door asap and make the website public. i want to say to them something like "look if you send out the email now, 85% of the people will visit the site today and the site won't be ready until next week" etc etc.

thanks 🙂


jjones: i agree, i was just hoping someone saw a cnet article or something of the like with basic information, nothing formal required i was just curious. heck they do studies like "Fourteen percent of people age 13 to 15 around the world smoke cigarettes, with nearly a quarter of them having tried their first cigarette by age 10"

-young, not a spam monster 😛
 
I guarantee that if you send emails on a non-released site people will go to it immediately, see that it's not done or it sucks, and never visit it again. Tell your superiors to wait 🙂
 
never rely on someone else's stats for your own site.

are you allowed cgi-bin on the server?

there are small perl scripts that query the visiting browser of browser type, IP address, operating system, last link, directed link, and email (if configured on the browser), and other things.


just match IP address or email addy with the list of those who were sent an email.



my funny story (back in the day-early'90s, animated gifs were just the rage):
I created a website with meta tags on the front page. Some of the keywords were "Thomas" (my real name), "Heather" (my girlfriend at the time), "pics" (we had photos of the town and some vacation pics uploaded).

I had a script that queried visiting browsers of just about everything. A few hits came from people using yahoo or altavista (the "google" of the 20th century) searching for "Heather Thomas pics." Some of these queries came from big corporations during work hours. At the time, web surfing for pics were absolutely forbidden for most big companies.

I should have emailed one of the searchers for be so naughty. I wonder if that would make them paranoid to know that someone knows of their surfing habits?
😛
 
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