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I'm only just starting, and the seven visitors that came to my site from search engines spent an average on 42 seconds on the site.

(You can get this information from Google Analytics by using the Segments option)

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I would imagine that statistics about incoming searches are quite poor for most SE sites right now, simply because it takes a while to get indexed by Google. On my site (mathoverflow.net, which has been up for 3 weeks), Google only started crawling the site about a week and a half ago and started indexing pages only in the last couple of days (or so I gather from Google webmaster tools). Only 4% of the traffic has come from searches in the past week, and almost all of that has been people typing one of the following into Google: "mathoverflow", "mathoverflow.net", or "math overflow".

Weirdly, my search engine traffic seems to consist of my most dedicated users:

Pages/Visit:       14.04      (Site Avg: 6.59    )
Avg. Time on Site: 00:18:49   (Site Avg: 00:07:34)
Bounce Rate:       12.79%     (Site Avg: 36.07%  )
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Freeky. My site is up for two days, and I see some (albit very minor) statistics on search engines. Could be the AdSense sampling I do for a $1.5 a day. – ripper234 Oct 20 at 1:43
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We use Clicky for our analytic software, its a pretty simplistic view like Google Analytics, so I don't know if they measure things differently, but here's how EpicAdvice compares. This is a filtered view with JUST search engine traffic.

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That's really sweet, 3 minutes for a random visitor. You should write a blog post on how you did your bootstrapping, you're the envy of almost every other SE site :) – ripper234 Oct 19 at 21:20
We've been documenting our processes and what we've been doing. Its coming, I just am not sure meta.se is the place for it? I guess it could be :) – Aaron Cox Oct 19 at 21:21
It is, trust me, we're all eager to know. – ripper234 Oct 19 at 22:33
(At least a link, not the actual post) – ripper234 Oct 19 at 22:33
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Not much:

Google:

Visits: 2

Pages/Visit: 1.00

Avg. Time on Site: 00:00:00

Bounce Rate: 100%

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Google Analytics for Taxqueries.com

Date Range: October 9th to Oct 18th, 2009

Visits: 467

Pageviews: 3,179

Pages/Visit: 6.81

Bounce Rate: 40.04%

Avg. Time on Site: 00:06:09

New Visits: 69.38%

35.76% Direct Traffic

60.17% Referring Sites

3.00% Search Engines

Sources                           Visits      % visits
(direct) ((none))                    167        35.76%
linkedin.com (referral)              136        29.12%  
meta.stackexchange.com (referral)     46         9.85%  
twitter.com (referral)                26         5.57%  
stackexchangesites.com (referral)     17         3.64%  
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is that just the search engine traffic or all traffic? – Blah Oct 19 at 23:23
That's all traffic. Search engines haven't indexed me yet so I've been promoting via twitter, twitterfeed, and linked-in for the last week. – TaxQueries.com Oct 19 at 23:32
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Since the beginning of time for Search Visitors:

  • Bounce rate: 70%
  • Avg. time on site: 2:17
  • Pages per visit: 2.91

I assure you the numbers get much worse if you take out people who were explicitly searching for moms4mom rather than people who just typed a question in. For people who just typed a question in, we're close to a 90% bounce rate.

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