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Sunday, January 5, 2020

SimplySfdc in 2019


Happy New Year 2020! To follow the yearly tradition, I would like to share some statistics of SimplySfdc in 2019 -- here is the statistic for 2018.

In 2019, lesser blog posts were written compare to 2018 (40% less), but the total Pageviews and total Sessions increase.

Page 2019 2018 2017 change*
Total New Page 38 63 34 -39.68%
Total Pageviews 210,213 171,249 115,744 22.75%
Total Sessions 185,396 149,574 97,310 23.95%
Pages / Session 1.13 1.14 1.19 -0.88%
* compare 2019 to 2018


Similar to previous years, organic search always contributes to the largest portion of traffic source in 2019, and this year it crosses the 70% mark. Direct traffic, referral, and social weaker in 2019.

Channel Source 2019 2018 2017
1. Organic Search 74.06% 69.63% 67.66%
2. Direct 23.35% 27.15% 25.64%
3. Referral 1.72% 1.76% 4.09%
4. Social  0.82% 1.46% 2.60%


Google, as always is the king of search engine globally, the same applies to SimplySfdc in 2019, it contributes more than 96% of traffic, which is more than 1% lower compared to 2018. Bing and Yahoo gain slightly more percentage, while other search engines show an increase in contribution too.

Top Search Engine 2019 2018 2017
1. Google 96.09% 97.48% 96.46%
2. Bing 2.61% 2.02% 2.66%
3. Yahoo 0.56% 0.47% 0.77%
4. Other 0.74% 0.03% 0.11%


Twitter as the predominant social media for Salesforce #Ohana stays at the 1st spot by contributing more than 39% traffic for SimplySfdc. LinkedIn and Blogger contribution a huge increase for more than 17% compared to 2018.

Top Social Media Source 2019 2018 2017
1. Twitter (#1 in 2018) 39.05% 56.50% 26.42%
2. LinkedIn (#3 in 2017)  31.57% 15.65% 44.81% 
3. Blogger (#4 in 2017) 20.21% 4.17% 4.61%
4. Facebook (#2 in 2017) 5.57% 18.00% 7.15%
5. Others 3.60% 5.68% 17.01%
* in 2017 - StackExchange contribute 7.29% and Google+ contribute 7.11%


There is no change in the top 6 countries of the visitors, however, US visitors gain almost 2% of the total number of visitors. All other countries contribute lesser visitors in terms of the percentage of visitors. The top six countries represent more than 78% of the visitors.

Top Visitor Country 2019 2018 2017
1. United States 43.60% 41.84% 49.45%
2. India 22.07% 23.88% 19.56%
3. United Kingdom  4.50% 4.95% 4.61%
4. Australia 3.20% 3.30% 2.58%
5. Canada 2.85% 2.92% 2.38%
6. France  2.09% 2.18% 1.90%


From the cities' perspective, Chicago out of nowhere takes the 1st spot in 2019, while it was not in the top 10 in 2018, I guess probably this is related to intensive Einstein Analytics posts in 2019. New York climb to spot #4, and London drop to #6.  The top 6 cities represent almost 22% of the total visitors.

Top Visitor City 2019 2018 2017
1. Chicago 6.60% n/a  1.82%
2. Bengaluru (#1 in 2018) 5.27% 6.08% 5.24%
3. Hyderabad (#2 in 2018) 3.27% 3.76% 3.11%
4. New York (#5 in 2018) 2.26% 2.30% 2.80%
5. Pune (#4 in 2018) 2.20% 2.32% 1.97%
6. London (#3 in 2018) 2.14% 2.50% 2.37%
* San Francisco was in #3 in 2017 and #6 in 2018
* Chicago was in #8 in 2017 and not in top 10 in 2018


This statistic includes access from desktop and mobile. Total top 5 web browsers contribute more than 98% of the visitors. All browsers position stay the same as in 2018, but Internet Explorer gains a higher contribution percentage by visitors.

Top Visitor Web Browser 2019 2018 2017
1. Chrome 83.13% 83.34% 81.33%
2. Internet Explorer 7.05% 5.43% 4.65%
3. Firefox  3.57% 4.64% 6.36%
4. Safari  2.91% 3.28% 5.32%
5. Edge 1.58% 1.71% 1.11%


In terms of the operating system, there is no change in the top 5 operating system. There is a slight decrease in Windows users. While mobile and tablet users stay the same with close to 6% contribution of the total visitors, this makes sense because most of the visitors access this blog when they have difficulty in configuring Salesforce using the desktop/laptop.

Top Visitor Operating System 2019 2018 2017
1. Windows 74.19% 75.13% 73.36%
2. Macintosh 17.63% 17.12% 17.93%
3. Android 3.28% 3.15% 2.63%
4. iOS  2.57% 2.80% 4.10%
5. Linux 1.65% 1.36% 1.23%


As mentioned in last year's blog, screen resolution 1536x864 probably is 1920x1080 resolution with the display set to 125% zoom, and 1280x720 is 150% zoom of 1920x1080. In total, 1920x1080 is contributing to more than 42%. I have no idea with 1024x768, but some of the contributions probably are tablets and mobile.

Top Visitor Screen Resolution 2019 2018 2017
1. 1920x1080 24.38% 21.87% 20.87%
2. 1366x768 15.62% 20.09% 21.63%
3. 1536x864  8.88% 8.53% 8.12%
4. 1280x720 (#5 in 2018) 8.75% 6.63% 4.63%
5. 1440x900 (#4 in 2018) 7.95% 8.23% 8.44%
6. 1024x768 (#8 in 2018) 6.35% 3.63% n/a


Top 5 Popular Page
For popular pages, 3 of 5 top pages from 2018 still stay in 2019. And, 3 of 5 top pages in 2019 are written in 2018.

2. Salesforce: How to export Attachments? ~ 6,023 hits [2014] (#1~2018; #1~2017; #4~2016; #4~2015; #5~2014)
5. Salesforce: Activity Controlled by Parent ~ 2,970 hits [2015] (#5~2018; #17~2017)


Top 5 Referral Site
1. Salesforce Ben ~ 10 Most Popular Salesforce Admin Blogs
2. Kelsey Shannon ~ EA Certification Study Guide Part 1: Data Layer
3. Kelsey Shannon ~ EA Certification Study Guide Part 5: Security
4. SrinuSFDC ~ Admin 201 Sample Questions 1 - 20
5. Kelsey Shannon ~ EA Certification Study Guide Part 6: Administration



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