The total sessions (when someone visits the blog), total pageviews (the total posts visited on the blog), and number of users (unique individuals who visit the blog) for the period increased by 34.04%, 22.09%, and 36.96% respectively. The number of pages per session and the average pages per session decreased in the last year by 8.91% and 13.21% respectively. This suggests that while the number of visits to the page have increased in the past year, the level of engagement has declined slightly which is to be expected as a wider audience is reached.
Beneath these statistics are the charts for the % of new visitors to the site for both years. This % increased by 2.07% which shows that hew users are coming to the site more often. The bounce rate (the% of single page visits) increased by 26% which corresponds to the decreased engagement.
At the bottom of the output, the top countries from where the number of sessions come are listed with the United States of course coming out on top. The total number of sessions from the US increased by 32.1% while the its share of the total number of sessions decreased slightly by 1.4%. This indicates a greater share of foreign traffic to the site. The countries with larger % increases in sessions are Iraq (2100%), India (196.15%), Russia (191.67%), Canada (80.65%), and ones where the country is not set (69.86%).
The increased foreign traffic raises thoughts of hackers or surveillance as the Russians have been accused of hacking into various election servers. I have no data that I haven't publicized on the election. As programmers would say the information on this site is open source available to all. Looking at the level of engagement from Russia the bounce rate increased by 44% while the average time on the page increased by 1382.79%. In India it decreased by 75.39%, in Canada it increased by 37.06%, in Iraq it decreased by 100%, and in areas where the country was not set it decreased by 93.71%. This suggests greater engagement from Russia. Looking at the cities that the traffic is coming from are Moscow, Sverdlovsk Oblast, St. Petersburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and Novosibirsk Oblast. An oblast is a state in Russia. These are remote states in Russia where the time on the page was the highest. I don't know if these are intelligence gatherers or just curious Russians.
Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016: Blue Line
Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015: Orange Line
Sessions
TotalSessions
34.04%
3,989 vs 2,976
Users
36.96%
3,346 vs 2,443
Pageviews
22.09%
11,671 vs 9,559
Pages / Session
-8.91%
2.93 vs 3.21
Avg. Session Duration
-13.21%
00:00:48 vs 00:00:56
Bounce Rate
26.80%
47.93% vs 37.80%
% New Sessions
2.07%
83.20% vs 81.52%
|  New VisitorReturning Visitor
Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015
|
| Country | Sessions | % Sessions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | United States | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 3,082 | 77.26% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 2,333 | 78.39% | |
| % Change | 32.10% | -1.44% | |
| 2. | United Kingdom | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 201 | 5.04% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 133 | 4.47% | |
| % Change | 51.13% | 12.75% | |
| 3. | (not set) | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 124 | 3.11% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 73 | 2.45% | |
| % Change | 69.86% | 26.73% | |
| 4. | India | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 77 | 1.93% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 26 | 0.87% | |
| % Change | 196.15% | 120.95% | |
| 5. | Russia | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 70 | 1.75% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 24 | 0.81% | |
| % Change | 191.67% | 117.60% | |
| 6. | Canada | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 56 | 1.40% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 31 | 1.04% | |
| % Change | 80.65% | 34.77% | |
| 7. | Germany | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 41 | 1.03% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 35 | 1.18% | |
| % Change | 17.14% | -12.61% | |
| 8. | China | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 27 | 0.68% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 21 | 0.71% | |
| % Change | 28.57% | -4.08% | |
| 9. | France | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 25 | 0.63% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 21 | 0.71% | |
| % Change | 19.05% | -11.18% | |
| 10. | Iraq | ||
| Sep 29, 2015 - Sep 28, 2016 | 22 | 0.55% | |
| Sep 28, 2014 - Sep 28, 2015 | 1 | 0.03% | |
| % Change | 2,100.00% | 1,541.31% | |
