Last 60 days. A visit is one browser tab: close it and the count starts over, because nothing is stored to recognise you by. That makes these numbers a little high, and it is the trade we wanted.
What people write
13 sentences so far: 0% of them asked a question, 0% picked up a word from the sentence they replaced, the middle one is 11 characters long.
More of them begin with “？” than with any other word.
1 person has lost the page and come back to take it again. 1 sentence was replaced by the same person who wrote the one before.
From opening the page to writing a sentence
Opened the site178 · 100%
Started typing15 · 8%
163 dropped off here
Pressed send12 · 7%
3 dropped off here
Got a sentence up12 · 7%
Counted per visit, not per click, so somebody who writes four sentences still counts once. The gap between typing and sending is the one worth watching: those are people who wanted to and then did not.
Where they came from
direct127
google.com38
news.ycombinator.com4
com.google.android.googlequicksea…3
bing.com3
cn.bing.com2
google.com.hk1
“direct” means no referrer at all: a bookmark, an app, or somebody typing the name. Only the hostname is kept, never the full address, because search pages put the query in there.
Which countries
United States114
China65
Netherlands14
Germany12
France11
India7
Singapore5
Bangladesh3
United Kingdom3
Pakistan3
South Korea3
Greece2
On what
desktop96
phone70
tablet12
Taken from the width of the window, not from the browser’s user agent. That string is long enough to recognise people by, and this is not meant to.
How long they stayed
Median visit: 5.0s
under 10s186
10s to 1m57
1m to 5m7
over 5m2
Measured on 252 visits that reached the end cleanly. A tab killed by the system never reports back, so treat this as a floor.
Losing, and telling people
Watched someone else take over: 17
Watched their own sentence go: 0
Median time those sentences stood: not set yet
Clicked a share link: 3
Nobody has lost a sentence while watching yet. That is the moment worth waiting for.
Where they share
Copied the words, after writing3
Busiest pages
/205 · 160 visits
/archive7 · 4 visits
/4045 · 5 visits
/records2 · 1 visit
/about2 · 2 visits
/thoughts/572 · 2 visits
/thoughts/312 · 2 visits
/thoughts/492 · 2 visits
/thoughts/522 · 2 visits
/thoughts/551 · 1 visit
/thoughts/561 · 1 visit
/what-people-do1 · 1 visit
Day by day
Visits per day.
Everything, counted
Closed the tab: 252 (215 visits)
Opened a page: 240 (178 visits)
Looked at the front page: 205 (160 visits)
Watched someone else take over: 17 (12 visits)
Started typing: 16 (15 visits)
Opened a permanent link: 15 (14 visits)
Went straight to the front page: 13 (12 visits)
Pressed send: 13 (12 visits)
Clicked a share link: 3 (3 visits)
Wrote another one: 1 (1 visit)
No cookies were set to count any of this, and none of it is shared with anyone. Other windows: 1d · 7d · 30d · 60d