In CyberSpace, nobody can hear you blog.

So, you have been blogging away thinking that this is a totally private activity that nobody else pays any attention to other than a few other fellow grad students? Well, you would be wrong. We track the activity on myResearchSpace using a free web tracking service provided by Google called Google Analytics. This provides quite detailed metrics on (amongst many other things) how many visits the site gets and how many pages each visitor views, whether the visitors are new or returning, and where the visitors are from:

The interesting things to note about this are that most of the visitors come to myResearchSpace via google and that the most popular search terms in the last week have been McNaught Comet and Frangipani (there is a photo of a frangipani that I uploaded to illustrate a point). Finally, the data shows that people from around the world are reading myResearchSpace (in fact, I was reading it at Singapore airport on Sunday!)

Periodically, I will be reporting on how the myResearchSpace usage is going and maybe we should have a prize for the item that gets the most google hits (without putting in something really obvious like "Paris Hilton enrols in a PhD").

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