Design Chords Blog

We just wrapped up with our first test Pilot project today on Design Chords – Sketch Lounge Logo 100$ Project.  The project ran for a 31 day period and we got 98 unique entries from 21 designers.. All in all its a pretty good start for us as not only did we receive some great design ideas (and that too plenty of them), we got some valuable feedback from various well wishers. We’ll be declaring the winning design here on the blog on 5th Oct, and we’ll also mention some designs which we won’t be able to buy, but were outstanding. Watch out for that. Over the next month we will be giving the site a face-lift (we know the present design needs some makeover,& we’re working on that) and completing the left over basic features.

THE TRAFFIC STATS: We had a look at the analytics of the site from the time we started the project till it ended. Pretty interesting data to look at  (the hits from our team have been filtered) -

• We overall had  1193 Visits in the entire month
• Each person on average viewed 5 pages and spent ~5 minutes on the site (not bad actually, considering we don’t have a lot of pages yet)
• 1/3 visitor left the site from the homepage itself (pretty bad I admit, we’re working on that)
• The traffic really dies down on weekends, whereas Monday see a great spur Guess we all know why.

Geographic Distribution : Geographically, the traffic pretty much came from India and kind of did expect it. We hope the ratio will decrease in the coming months -

• India – 75.3%
• USA – 11.4%
• Singapore – 3.8%
• Pakistan – 2.4%
• Brazil -1.3%
• Australia – 1%
• We also got some visitors from – Canada, UAE, UK , Switzerland, France, Germany, Finland, China, Indonesia, Ghana, Ireland, Philippines and Portugal

Browsers and Operating Systems : Now here is an interesting trend to watch out. We’ve all heard and observed how IE is being sidelined by Chrome and Mozilla, our site’s traffic says the same with Mozilla and Chrome together sharing ~73% of the traffic! Have a look -

• Mozilla – 45.3%
• Chrome – 27.5%
• IE – 21.1%
• Rest is Opera and Safari ~ 3% each

But apparently Open Source has been able to do the same charm in terms of Operating system, Windows leads the competition and the others don’t even come close -

• Windows – 90.7% (~68% is XP, 26% is Vista)
• Linux – 3.8%
• Mac – 2.4%
• Symbian – 1.6%

Traffic Source : i.e From where did our visitors reach the site. No surprises here, since we only took the help of mails and facebook the stats prove the same -

• Direct Traffic – 63.70%
• Referring Sites – 33.78% (shared b/w facebook, orkut and twitter)
• Search Engines – 2.51%

We’ll be more regular here as the development of the site makes headway and will have another post asking for every-one’s suggestions and feedbacks. Leave your comments if you have any thoughts.

Regards

Shashaank Shekhar Singhal