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Interactions.org, Quantum Diaries and Social Media
Kevin Munday
20 April 2015
State of Interactions.org
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Current state of Interactions.org
From Google analytics—October-March• 109,000 (vs 85,000) sessions• 253,000 (vs 211,000) page views• 53,000 (vs 36,000) unique visitors
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Where did overall traffic come from?
• Direct (54K sessions)
• Organic search (26K sessions)
• Referral (16K sessions)
• Social (12K sessions)
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Where are our visitors?
1000 or more visits from:
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, France, Japan, Italy, India, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Russia, Netherlands, Brazil, New Zealand, Poland, China, Spain, Czech Republic and Norway
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Top pages
• Home page (74K)• Newest images (72K)• Blog watch (20K)• LHCb release (14K)• Planck release (3K)• LHC restart brief (2K)
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Google Keyword searches
• Interactions.org• blog• Particle Physics News• Neutrino goes global• icecube
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Current state of NewsWire
• ~4,404 subscribers (up 119)
• 19 distributed so far this year
The Week of Interactions
• Published every Monday as a digest of weekly postings
• 411 subscribers (+2)• Highlights:
News NewsWires Images Video Quantum Diaries
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State of Quantum Diaries
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QD StatsFrom Google Analytics—October through March
• 192,000 visits (-15K)• 293,000 page views (-13K)• 133,000 unique visitors (-12K)
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QD StatsFrom Google Analytics—Oct-March
• Let’s draw Feynman diagrams (20K)• But what are quarks made of? (10K)• Does dark matter exist (10K)• Theory and Experiment BBT (7K)• Helicity, chirality, mass (5K)
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State of Social Media
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• @ParticleNews 10K (+1500) followers and counting
• @Quantum_Diaries 4,436 (+626) Twitter followers
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• 7,108 (+3400) likes on Facebook
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Transition
Kelen Danielle
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QD on BBT
• QD integral to the plot line• Blog post on QD• 20MM+ viewers• 3.5MM twitter followers
• Mention on show• Tweeted link the next day
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QD on BBT: How to prepare for n=?
• Migrated to Rackspace cloud hosting• Implemented Cloudflare CDN
Caching layer Geographically dispersed copies of site Separates content from CMS entirely
• Coordinated publishing schedule• Locked site down
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QD on BBT: Not that big of a Bang
• ~6 normal traffic• Traffic spike subsided over 3 days
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Moving forward
• Awaiting guidance from governance committee
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