We just close 2017 and welcoming 2018. I would like to share some interesting statistics in 2017 for
SimplySfdc, a blog dedicated to all Salesforce users and community around the world, and check out here for the
statistic in 2016 too. Happy New Year 2018!
In 2017, much less blog is written (less than 55%), but total pageview and session only lower for around 25%.
| Page |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
change* |
| Total New Page |
34 |
76 |
80 |
-55.26% |
| Total Pageviews |
115,744 |
161,516 |
148,130 |
-28.34% |
| Total Sessions |
97,310 |
130,724 |
123,964 |
-25.56% |
| Pages / Session |
1.19 |
1.24 |
1.19 |
-4.03% |
*compare 2017 with 2016
Similar with previous years, organic search always contributes the largest portion of traffic source, but direct traffic growth around 11%, this is a good sign that
simplysfdc.com has become more trusted and followed by more people. A small increase in the referral as the traffic source, but the contribution from the social channel is much lower in 2017.
| Channel Source |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. Organic Search |
69.68% |
78.79% |
82.98% |
| 2. Direct |
23.67% |
12.68% |
10.58% |
| 3. Referral |
3.81% |
3.34% |
4.33% |
| 4. Social |
2.83% |
5.19% |
2.12% |
Google, as we know, is the most common search engine for everyone, the same applies for
simplysfdc.com blog, it contributes more than 96% of traffic in 2017, although it decreases more than 1% compared to 2016. Both Bing and Yahoo stay at the 2nd and 3rd spot, traffic from Bing increase 0.63% compared to 2016, would this mean anything in the search engine war globally?.
| Top Search Engine |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. Google |
96.23% |
97.29% |
96.47% |
| 2. Bing |
2.53% |
1.90% |
2.02% |
| 3. Yahoo |
0.73% |
0.70% |
1.40% |
| 4. Other |
0.51% |
0.11% |
0.11% |
Top social media contribution to the traffic source for
simplysfdc.com is not much change compared to 2016. LinkedIn raised to #1 with contribution almost 50%, while Twitter contribution almost the same with 2016. Both Stack Exchange and Google+ drop almost 4%, but Facebook gains 3% increase. Reddit appearance as #3 in 2016 is most probably not a real traffic. Total of top five social media contributes more than 97% of total social media as the traffic source.
| Top Social Media Source |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. LinkedIn |
47.03% |
21.77% |
20.54% |
| 2. Twitter |
27.72% |
29.07% |
15.40% |
| 3. Stack Exchange |
7.65% |
11.39% |
21.04% |
| 4. Google+ |
7.62% |
11.43% |
8.00% |
| 5. Facebook |
7.50% |
4.45% |
19.36% |
There is no change of the top 6 countries of visitors, US visitors contribute around 49% of the total visitor, India contributes a little bit higher for more than 20%, UK visitors decrease over the last 3 years. Russia sudden jumps in 2016 is the fake visitor, now they appeared in #10, which is the same as in 2015. Australia, Canada, and French stays at their position, with the small percentage increase for each of them. Top six countries represent almost 81% of the blog visitors.
| Top Visitor Country |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. United States |
48.80% |
49.04% |
45.26% |
| 2. India |
20.90% |
20.41% |
20.96% |
| 3. United Kingdom |
4.40% |
4.88% |
5.96% |
| 4. Australia |
2.64% |
2.17% |
2.91% |
| 5. Canada |
2.23% |
2.12% |
2.74% |
| 6. France |
1.97% |
1.87% |
1.94% |
From cities perspective, all 6 cities in 2016 stay the same compare to 2016. Hyderabad, San Francisco, and London visitor drop over last 3 years, while Pune visitors increase for the last 3 years. Top 6 cities represent almost 20% of the total visitors.
| Top Visitor City |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. Bengaluru |
5.75% |
5.74% |
5.93% |
| 2. Hyderabad |
3.31% |
3.51% |
3.61% |
| 3. San Francisco |
2.99% |
3.39% |
3.51% |
| 4. New York |
2.76% |
2.98% |
2.56% |
| 5. London |
2.38% |
2.57% |
3.20% |
| 6. Pune |
2.10% |
2.00% |
1.88% |
This statistic includes access from desktop and mobile. Total top 5 web browsers contribute more than 99% of the visitors. There are no changes in top 5 web browsers compare to 2016. Chrome becomes more popular web browser among visitors. Firefox still at #2, but with a much lower percentage. Some decrease in the percentage of Safari users. Internet Explorer users still there, but lower over the years. Edge included in Windows 10 gain small increase, but do not move it to the higher spot yet.
| Top Visitor Web Browser |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. Chrome |
82.98% |
78.88% |
74.46% |
| 2. Firefox |
5.92% |
8.37% |
12.60% |
| 3. Safari |
5.33% |
6.80% |
5.31% |
| 4. Internet Explorer |
4.01% |
4.46% |
6.59% |
| 5. Edge |
1.08% |
0.64% |
0.16% |
In terms of operating system, there is no change in the top 5 web browsers. Windows users increase by 1%, MacOS stay at the same at 17%, a big drop of iOS users, but still at spot #3. Android users gain increase over last 3 years.
Total access from mobile and tablet only 6.77% of the total of visitors. This makes sense because most of the visitors access this blog when they have difficulty in configuring Salesforce using desktop/laptop. iOS users down from 71% in 2016 to 59% in 2017, the rest would be Android users.
| Top Visitor Operating System |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. Windows |
74.85% |
73.78% |
77.21% |
| 2. Macintosh |
17.11% |
17.04% |
16.33% |
| 3. iOS |
3.84% |
5.26% |
3.37% |
| 4. Android |
2.63% |
2.18% |
1.60% |
| 5. Linux |
1.08% |
1.23% |
1.24% |
This year, we see 1920x1080 resolution take over 1366x768 as top screen resolutions, 1920x1080 found in high-end laptop and bigger screen LCD monitor. The rest of screen resolution are all slow down, with exception of 1280x720 now raise to spot #5, it used to be #10 in 2015 and #9 in 2016, this resolution mostly found at the middle-end tablet or mobile phone. 1280x1024 which is at #5 in 2016 and 2015, now drop to #9, which is fount at older LCD monitor.
| Top Visitor Screen Resolution |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
| 1. 1920x1080 |
29.06% |
22.46% |
20.58% |
| 2. 1366x768 |
22.58% |
26.81% |
27.01% |
| 3. 1440x900 |
8.24% |
8.94% |
9.65% |
| 4. 1600x900 |
6.11% |
8.22% |
9.53% |
| 5. 1280x720 |
4.88% |
2.21% |
1.20% |
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