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Google Analytics — April 2012

Tue, 05/01/2012 - 17:00 — Bruno Lowagie

As predicted, the statistics for April aren't as good as usual because of the Spring break and the Easter holidays:

These vacation periods may not be visible in the heartbeat of the 'visits', you can clearly see it in the graph of the Alexa ranking:

Let's add another row to the table, knowing that we didn't break any records this month:

Month Page views Visits Visits/day Unique visitors/month
January 2012 426,012 125,017 4032 68,609
February 2012 428,568 130,664 4505 72,807
March 2012 450,424 133,854 4318 74,954
April 2012 401,617 119,725 3991 68,626

Fortunately, we did break another record in April: the sales team in the US has had its biggest turnover in one month since iText Software Corp. was founded. Now we're looking forward to some changes that will be introduced: we're thinking of completely revamping the iText web site. More news about that later this year.

As for the lowagie.com site, it's pretty quiet over here, but the site has a nice heartbeat too:

No records in April either, March was the strongest month:

Month Page views Visits Visits/day Unique visitors/month
January 2012 9,554 5,236 169 3,883
February 2012 9,041 5,113 176 4,180
March 2012 9,961 6,140 198 5,038
April 2012 8,496 4,931 164 3,832

If you look at the peaks of lowagie.com in 2012, 2 out of 3 correspond with an iText release. Now that's a good incentive to work on iText 5.3.0, yes, once again we've scheduled a second digit upgrade. We went from 5.1.x to 5.2.0 because the dependency on the Asian jars had completely changed. Now we're going from 5.2.x to 5.3.0 because we're switching from BouncyCastle 1.46 to BouncyCastle 1.47. This involves major changes. Whoever still uses BouncyCastle 1.46 won't be able to upgrade...