Trip report
Thanks to a last minute assist from United I made it home from Las Vegas by 5:15 p.m. Thursday afternoon. That's much better than the post-midnight arrival that I was originally booked on.
The trip was a success, and I now have photos and videos of virtually everything in Las Vegas that a typical tourist would be interested in. Right now I'm burning 7.5 GB of photos and videos to DVD. I've been super-paranoid about data loss since 1993, when my staff and I lost an entire edition of the University of Alabama at Birmingham college newspaper (in QuarkXPress format) in the middle of the night because of a disk error. If you want to know what shame feels like, try distributing a 4-page broadsheet newspaper comprised mostly of ads and hastily re-written wire stories.
Traffic
Until recently most of Planaroo's traffic was coming from StumbleUpon. The numbers looked great, but most of it was going to the Space Mountain page. And while all traffic is good traffic, some traffic sources are better than others.
For example, users who come from StumbleUpon are viewing about two pages on average. That's not surprising because users who stumble into a site probably aren't sure what they're looking for, if they're looking for anything at all.
On the other hand, users who come from search engines are task-driven. They typically fall into one of three groups:
- They find what they're looking for and leave
- They don't find what they're looking for and leave
- They like what they see and stick around
I'm happy to say that a lot more traffic is falling into that third bucket recently. It's still early, but this is a very encouraging trend.
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