I put poll up on the site recently to find out how people use the music on the site.
You might think with Google Analytics and all the other tools at my disposal that I could easily find that sort of thing out, but actually I don’t have access to the data on how often music is streamed or downloaded.
Anyway, the results are below (the numbers refer to percentages):
The key finding is that half the respondents said they streamed music (either before downloading or as without subsequently downloading it), and half said they downloaded music without streaming. The message is clear: keep the facility to stream music and download it. So I’ll do that. Which is good, because it means doing nothing.
I’ve got a couple of things to add:
The poll ran on the blog for 14 days, from the 9th to the 23rd of July.
During that time there were 379 unique visitors to the site, yet only 23 people responded to the poll. That’s 6% of the total visitors to the site during that time. Is that serious voter apathy, or have I done my sums wrong?
I’m not sure that I’d be surprised if the data is right, but that’s still a very small percentage of people who took part in the poll. I mean, people love polls. I once saw a poll on a local newspaper website where, out of three multiple-choice responses, a small number of people had actually picked one that didn’t make any kind of grammatical sense. They’d voted for something that didn’t exist for the sake of voting.
So I looked into it, and maybe the small number of respondents could be because it wasn’t on every page: a rookie error, meaning not all of those visitors would have seen it!
And it turns out that during this time there were 45 separate visits to the pages where the poll could be seen. That would make the number of respondents just over 50% of visitors, which actually isn’t such a bad statistic. Panic over: I’m just a very poor poll publiciser.
You might think with Google Analytics and all the other tools at my disposal that I could easily find that sort of thing out, but actually I don’t have access to the data on how often music is streamed or downloaded.
Anyway, the results are below (the numbers refer to percentages):
The key finding is that half the respondents said they streamed music (either before downloading or as without subsequently downloading it), and half said they downloaded music without streaming. The message is clear: keep the facility to stream music and download it. So I’ll do that. Which is good, because it means doing nothing.
ADDENDUM
I’ve got a couple of things to add:
- I -
The poll ran on the blog for 14 days, from the 9th to the 23rd of July.
During that time there were 379 unique visitors to the site, yet only 23 people responded to the poll. That’s 6% of the total visitors to the site during that time. Is that serious voter apathy, or have I done my sums wrong?
I’m not sure that I’d be surprised if the data is right, but that’s still a very small percentage of people who took part in the poll. I mean, people love polls. I once saw a poll on a local newspaper website where, out of three multiple-choice responses, a small number of people had actually picked one that didn’t make any kind of grammatical sense. They’d voted for something that didn’t exist for the sake of voting.
- II -
So I looked into it, and maybe the small number of respondents could be because it wasn’t on every page: a rookie error, meaning not all of those visitors would have seen it!
And it turns out that during this time there were 45 separate visits to the pages where the poll could be seen. That would make the number of respondents just over 50% of visitors, which actually isn’t such a bad statistic. Panic over: I’m just a very poor poll publiciser.
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