{"id":1150,"date":"2008-04-01T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/04\/what_i_know_about_you\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T15:45:38","slug":"what_i_know_about_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/what_i_know_about_you.php","title":{"rendered":"What I know about you"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we do our work in the actual<\/i> world, it’s striking how much feedback we receive. Every sense can find some evidence of our actions and the reactions to them: we hear the sound of our voice, see the reactions of those we’re speaking to, sense the acoustics of the space around us, feel the tension or tone of the group we’re with, and experience the smells and sensations of our environment.<\/p>\n

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\nThe virtual world, on the other hand, seems more like an anechoic chamber for the majority of us not<\/i> in the celebreality world. We say things — through blogs, or e-mails, or other posts — and off they go. Maybe they’re read. Maybe not. Maybe they provoke. Maybe not. As a result, bloggers like myself are grateful for whatever feedback we can find — in web visitor statistics, references from other blogs (through Technorati<\/a>, and the like), comments to our posts, and the odd comment or two when we meet a reader in real life.<\/p>\n

It was the search for feedback, as well as curiosity about a new toolset, that led me to sign on with Google Analytics<\/a>, a free web traffic analysis system that’s full of charts and numbers. After about three months on the system, here’s what I know about the visitors to my blog:<\/p>\n