Guessing Game: how many visits per day on deals.woot [answer 149688 @heymo wins]
for fun, guess how many visits per day deals.woot receives on average. Keep to one guess or I'll invalidate your guesses. Accounts that have bought from woot only (don't go creating ones here for this silly exercise, but if you do - buy something at least). Closest guess wins a free shirt.woot shirt of their choosing (http://shirt.woot.com/reckoning). I get to determine when I want to close guessing and it will be posted as a comment (presumably later this afternoon - so if today is not Thursday May 13th, don't bother guessing)
I'll use the exact integer rounded up average/day May 1 to May 12 as the "right" answer. Google analytics is my data source (and their use of general "Visits" applies) in case anyone wants to obsess over what's tracked.
(other than just something silly for anyone bored, I do wonder if the number is surprising to some - even though there are likely some outside sources to approximate it)
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snapster
asked 2 years ago
I feel like you should specify between visits in general and unique visits. That is, many users visit at least twice a day, so should each visit made by one person count separately, or should we just count how many people visit the site in a 24 hour period?
From Google help files:
Visits vs. Visitors
Analytics measures both visits and visitors in your account. Visits represent the number of individual sessions initiated by all the visitors to your site. If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity will be attributed to a new session. Users that leave your site and return within 30 minutes will be counted as part of the original session.
The initial session by a user during any given date range is considered to be an additional visit and an additional visitor. Any future sessions from the same user during the selected time period are counted as additional visits, but not as additional visitors.
@nimblewalrus: sorry, by visits I do not mean anything more specific - not visitors, not absolute unique visitors but the more numerous 'visits'. I'm not sure of Google Analytics exact measurement - I might guess it to be both session, time and cookie based so as not to overcount someone hopping around back and forth from another retailer and back (we do not see that activity as 2 visits)
edit: @tygerdave awesome - that supersedes my guess as to how they track it.
137,042 Visits/Day is my guess!
227,115 visits/day is my guess
150k.
due to the recession I will say 408,908 peeps looking for a deal
I know my mom is in and out all day long and if there are others like her I am going to say:
1,315,000 peeps/per day
1 visit. This is Price Is Right rules, right?
@niloc225: Your mom sounds like my mom. So I am going to say:
1,400,000 visits/per day
600,000
@dave bug: heh, no, I thought about that but figured closest was only a tad more calculation. I guess they did that rule to avoid mistakes though - never had stopped to figure out why.
no real staff guesses!
173,671 visits per day.
let's say 889,754 per day
And not one smart-alec has responded with "42."
732,451
As Alexa ranks woot at # 156 in the US, I an going to say:
1,500,000
@lavikinga. I wanted to win the shirt, but I did what I could.
@tygerdave: Well done. You had but one vote to give.
630000
some of us never leave, rather like Hotel California.
/me throws hat into ring
61,041 visits.
OK I'll bite, 1,314,668 visits per day.
823,500/day
1,265,464
1,000,000 (sticks pinky in corner of mouth)
@sgoman5674: welcome back!
1,169,580 avpd.
Ok - let's wrap.
A few of you may have gotten off track referencing main www.woot.com visits, but many were quite on target for deals.woot visits. Of those participating very few guessed lower than we have, so that part of the exercise was interesting.
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The correct answer for average daily visits to deals.woot in May is 149,688
Congrats to @heymo for his within 2 tenths of a percent guess of 150k.
@heymo, use code 149688 to pick a shirt from the current top 20 http://shirt.woot.com/reckoning (or hold off and watch for new shirts)
so @heymo is the winner but I'm in a giving mood - free shirts for everyone who guessed:
In case any of you have your "email me if mentioned" notice on:
@chris12345 @cib1013 @theoneill555 @lavikinga @hendubble @brueggcj @duckcake @dealotta @linkage89 @niloc225 @marylou1020 @mtrlgrl @tygerdave @ferrisbueller @sand4me @monkeysandbagsofcrap @sgoman5674 @area51groundzero and @heymo (you get another use on yours actually)
http://shirt.woot.com/reckoning coupon code: 149688 has been enabled on your account to cover shirt and tax where applicable.
thanks all.
Also - here's some fun links (though visits aren't people, we do average >100k people):
World cities with 125,000 to 150,000 people
http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_09.html
reference images of "100,000 people"
http://j.mp/cCwzyz (google image search)
@snapster: boo to me for coming late to the game. dang!
@snapster: Thanks! Just got the Think of the Children tee with it :)
@snapster:Wow! This is such a nice gesture. Thank you VERY much :)
Boy, am I glad I snagged "They Might Be Giants" last go around. It's been reckoned!
(A Distinct Possibility)
@snapster. This is great, thanks! I got the Apathy shirt because I don't really care what shirt I get.
@snapster: you're the bestest and your shirts are the best. Thank you!
@snapster: thank you, very much. I love your shirts.
@snapster: wow! Thank you!
@snapster: Wow, how nice. Thank you. :)
@snapster: Thank you for the shirt I will make more room in the closet. And thank you for the shirt for Sloan and Cameron as well.
@snapster Thank you Mr. R.
@snapster This is superfantastic, thanks snap man. I will put this shirt in my top drawer.
@snapster: Thanks so much! I tried to get A Novel Idea, but got an error message that "This Coupon Code Won't Work" Could I be doing something wrong?
@tygerdave: it's likely dumb-CEO-error. I probably punched something in wrong and will verify in the morning.
@snapster: Whoa. I never win anything. Thanks!!
@tygerdave: now fixed - sorry for error. number transposed had assigned your coupon to random user @malachi2004, who will presumably never see this.
hey malachi malachi2004 if you ever are ego-surfing your user name on google and see this, go to http://shirt.woot.com/reckoning and get a free shirt with code 149688 assigned to your account due to a data entry error.
when he does see it, he's just going to buy Nevermore. I hate that shirt.
And I'm totally shocked by the number.
#1. that it is so piddly small as compared to what I assume the sister sites get.
#2. that it counts people who go to sellout.woot
Say we've got 150k a day here. Consider my BIG FALSE ASSUMPTIONS... I'm guessing that woot.com ballparks in at 10x that (1.5M visits/day). I figure kids.woot gets 10-20% of woot's traffic. It's amazing to me that we're not getting more than 150k based on the sellout.woot item alone.
This says 2 things to me - we need better items at sellout.woot. Notice I didn't say pricing. The preview images don't spoil the price. The key is getting the item look. Secondly, I hope the cost to run this site is cheap so that the ROI and growth potential is worth it (I suspect it is, otherwise you'll be shuttering it soon). I've always seen this site as more of a branding/advertising cost than a profit engine. shrug
Thanks for fixing me up!
@fgarriel: I think they probably do OK - Most product links going out are altered with their referral ID and they'll get a few % commission. That also means if you want to help the Woot bank account you can try to start here any time you make an online purchase
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