Noodles and Beef

This is a very interesting graph. The selected portion is from when I posted that Chicken Adobo photo, which quadrupled my pageviews. What’s interesting is that more than half of returning visitors (folks who have read my blog in the last month) left my site after a few seconds (a bounce). Yet their average time on my blog is three-times what a new visitor spent on my blog.

I think there must be a few returning users that spent, like, 400 hours on my blog and those outliers are skewing the results…

Anyway, here’s some selected analytics tidbits:

The top 8 search terms are combinations of Noodles, Beef, And, Tumblr. The people making these searches are overwhelmingly returning users. Which makes me think nobody bothers to bookmark this blog.
A lot of people are searching for noodles and beef nude, naked, or cock shot (really?).
On average, people look at 4-5 pages on my blog.
On average, people scroll through 10-11 pages using the scrolling-forever feature. This is double what my old theme averaged.
Most people leave my blog after they look at photos of me. Am I that repulsive?

My next analytics post will talk about what types of posts are most popular (ass pics) and what folks don’t bother reading (questions).

Barcelonia update!

Until tumblr gets their act together, you can manually update your Barcelonia theme in just a few simple steps:

Go here, select everything (Ctrl + A) and copy (Ctrl + C)
Go to your Customizations area
Click “Theme” > “Use Custom HTML”
Select everything in that box (Ctrl + A) then paste over (Ctrl + V)
Click “Update Preview”
If everything looks alright, you’re done! Click SAVE!

Tumblr has a weird bug where it loses your customizations (colours, strings, etc) so you should copy this somewhere safe just in case. If everything looks weird, try clicking “Reset Defaults” and start over.

Whats new in this version?

Columns are now appended by height, so you get a more natural layout and reading flow.
The back button is fixed. If you click a post that was dynamically loaded using scrolling forever, then press back, you’re taken right back to where you clicked instead of the bottom of the first page.
You now get Facebook “Like” buttons on individual posts. This is optional, since not everyone is a social freak like me.
I’ve also added OpenGraph metadata tags. This means if people share your content on Facebook (or instapaper, etc) your content gets correctly parsed and is returned in a pretty way. Try sharing or liking one of my blog posts for an example.
Modern browsers get nice, smooth hover animations on posts.
Webkit browsers, IE9 and future firefox builds get fancy text rendering.
Selecting text now follows your custom colour pallet. (It’s the little things like this).

As always, I hope you enjoy my theme. Please let me know if you have any trouble with it or whatever. And let’s all bug tumblr to finish reviewing this thing already. It’s been in their “Moderation” queue for days!