Top deals, comments, forum posts and other stats for July 2014

neil on 03/08/2014 - 22:23
Last edited 03/08/2014 - 23:55

As Scott mentioned, July was the busiest month this year which is a bit unusual. Here are a few interesting stats for the month of July:

Top 5 positively voted comments
  1. A commenter pointing out the creativity of the McDonalds Cheeseburger Hack +160
  2. Zacardy letting us know he got booked onto a flight home after an epic stay at the Pudong airport +146
  3. Having manners when ordering at McDonalds +137
  4. Explaining what a multicultural round is in the free AFL tickets for overseas born fans deal +122
  5. Cardz complaining that he has run out of daily negative comment votes +124
Top 5 negatively voted comments
  1. A user complaining about poor service at McDonalds -192
  2. Same user complaining about McDonalds -161
  3. A different user complaining about McDonald s etiquette -147
  4. Another user complaining about a McDonalds deal -116
  5. Prenup thread. -114

Amazingly 4 of the top 5 negatively voted comments involve McDonalds deals. And to think McDonalds wanted to be banned from OzBargain.

Top 5 most popular deals by traffic (in pageviews)
  1. 20% off Toys at eBay (Incl Games & Consoles) XBoxOne 500GB Titanfall $478, PS4 $399.20 - 120,432
  2. Free Tap King Dispenser Unit - Use Voucher in Link - 82,392
  3. Free Intel Galileo Board from Microsoft - 74,758
  4. Dyson All Products 40% off, DC34 $179.40, DC59 Animal $389.40 After Discount Laggy Server - 63,831
  5. 50,000 Qantas FF Points with ANZ Platinum FF Credit Card (First Year Annual Fee Waived) - 46,436
Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)
  1. HELP a fellow ozbargainer stuck in Shanghai getting home!!!- 53,074
  2. Fiancé wants me to sign a pre-nup - 28,131
  3. Five finger discounts - My recent experiences - 19,472
  4. WARNING STAY AWAY FROM DSE - 17,370
  5. BMW - cost of maintenance - 15,279
Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews)
  1. Dominos - 44,486
  2. KFC - 19,201
  3. Pizza Hut - 16,232
  4. Hungry Jacks - 9,810
  5. Woolworths - 6,844
Top 5 most popular stores (amount of deals posted)
  1. Dick Smith - 79
  2. iTunes - 68
  3. Amazon - 63
  4. Woolworths - 53
  5. Coles - 49
Top 5 sites referring traffic to OzBargain (sessions)
  1. Whirlpool Forums - 120,002
  2. Facebook - 108,660
  3. Twitter - 36,709
  4. Lifehacker - 30,623
  5. Feedly.com - 29,088

Fairly impressive for Whirlpool to beat out social media sites. Fast fact, did you know before OzBargain was founded, Scott & I used to post deals/freebies in the Whirlpool freebie threads. Not very efficient but did the job and the thread is still going to this day (10+ years).

Top Browsers (by Sessions):
  1. Chrome 49.74%
  2. Safari 21.84%
  3. Firefox 14%
  4. Internet Explorer 8.7%
  5. Android Browser 3.53%
Other stats
  • Reports from users: 1648, June 2014: 1985 July 2013: 1702
  • Deals posted: 2210, June 2014: 2631, July 2013: 2186
  • Comments posted: 59885, June 2014: 65016, July 2013: 48313
  • Overall traffic: 6,924,373 sessions, 21,499,690 pageviews, June 2014: 6,823,519 sessions, 22,474,887 pageviews. July 2013: 6,060,237 sessions, 1,268,374 pageviews

If there are any other interesting stats you would like me to find, then let me know. See the 2013 stats if you are interested in a more in depth look at our stats. Real time stats from our wiki

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Comments

  • Slippy on 03/08/2014 - 23:19
    +2

    This is awesome, thank you for sharing I find it so interesting.

    How would I go about finding the most +'d deal of all time?

    Cheers

    • neil on 03/08/2014 - 23:22

      Ah yeah. Our stats page - (I've just added that to the post). It was the eBay deal from June - 2441 votes.

      • Holysmoke on 04/08/2014 - 21:10

        Page views for top deals are in the tens of thousands whereas the highest rated deals are in the low thousands. Are you making an effort to get people to sign-in and vote/comment on deals or just happy that people are visiting the site?

        • neil on 04/08/2014 - 21:28

          Yes, that's pretty much our top goal. Trying to convert guests into members. We've certaintly created useful member features to help bargain hunting. We recently added the ability to use Facebook/G+ to signup for those who can't be bothered/lazy to enter details.

          Guess we need more inspiration to guests to get them to sign up. Happy for suggestions.

  • BlazinPast on 03/08/2014 - 23:54

    The links for 'Top 5 most popular stores (in pageviews)' & 'Top 5 most popular forum thread by traffic (in pageviews)' don't work for us.

  • [Deactivated] on 04/08/2014 - 00:13
    +1

    8.47% of people use Internet Explorer?

    Now that's fascinating.

    • scrimshaw on 04/08/2014 - 00:15
      +1

      This may also include people using Windows Phone devices.

      • neil on 04/08/2014 - 00:24
        +2

        This is from Analytics, so I think that's only desktop.

        The breakdown is:

        11 - 48.72%
        9 - 19.04%
        10 - 17.06%
        8 - 15.07%
        6 - .08%
        5 - .02%

        Thankfully, IE6 is almost entirely eradicated.

    • neil on 04/08/2014 - 00:28
      +1

      Comparing to July 2013

      Chrome was 40.96 (+9%)
      Safari was 21.87 (no significant change)
      Firefox was 17.57 (-3%)
      IE was 11.47% (-3%)
      Android was 11.47% (-3%) - I think this may be due to Chrome being default on new devices

  • scrimshaw on 04/08/2014 - 00:22

    @ Neil: I've wondered about this for a while — can you tell us what days of the week is Ozbargain the most active? (i.e number of deals posted).

    • neil on 04/08/2014 - 00:37
      +6

      Looking just at July:

      Around 9PM has the highest amount of traffic. Low is around 4AM.

      Tuesday has the highest traffic but is fairly close to Monday and Wednesday's traffic. Saturday is dramatically lower (~40K sessions). Sunday is slightly higher.

  • goosegog on 04/08/2014 - 17:47

    Just goes to show that we all work more or less the same way i.e. weekdays after dinner go & check computer, around 10.30pm be in bed pushing up the zzzzzzzzzzzz's, Saturday do things around the house & enjoy fun time with friends & family, Sunday have slight hangover & clear up, Monday back to work with brain not quite in gear but make the effort with alot of help with coffee & water, Tuesday feel back to normal & can concentrate on the day ahead, Wednesday - hey- it's hump day - another weekend around the corner, Thursday Oh No it's late night shopping but at least it's Friday tomorrow, Friday - end of another hard week & all that stuff can wait until Monday.

  • pyramid on 04/08/2014 - 17:54
    +1

    Neil, can we find user who spent longest time based on time on ozb….

    • scrimshaw on 04/08/2014 - 18:34

      pent longest time based on time on ozb….

      That would be scotty wouldn't it? This website is his job / life.

      • pyramid on 04/08/2014 - 19:57

        I should have said that exclude mods.

      • scotty on 05/08/2014 - 16:13

        That would be scotty wouldn't it?

        I am actually on OzB less than many of you guys as I have to deal with the "business" side of this website, i.e. working on ideas, coding, doing a lot of emails (and sometimes phone calls). That doesn't leave me much time hunting the bargains each day :(

        • msmhw on 07/08/2014 - 11:26

          Just want to thank you for the good work, we really saved a lot (in the same time spend a lot lol ;) )
          Really thanks and keep the great job you guys doing.

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