{
  "path": "/post/one-year-com-in-retrospect/",
  "site": "at://did:plc:45uheisi25szrjvjurfpritx/site.standard.publication/3mgfeypogdk2r",
  "tags": [
    "Website Update"
  ],
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "title": "One year .com in retrospect",
  "description": "One year ago, I moved my blog to a .com",
  "publishedAt": "2011-07-19T00:00:00.000Z",
  "textContent": "Note: in December 2017, the website was moved to gui.do\n\nAlthough I've been blogging in English for quite some years now, today one year ago I switched my website from being local (guidojansen.nl since 2001) to global (gxjansen.com). It feels much more logical to have a .com instead of a .nl when you blog for an international audience right?\n\nI had no idea up-front if this would indeed broaden my audience but when I look at my Google Analytics stats I think that the switch was a great success!\n\nImproved statistics\n\nBefore this year 39% of my visitors came from outside of The Netherlands, but last year, this increased to 83%! And not only did the ratio change, also traffic in general increased by 470%! It's also great to see a larger percentage of returning visitors, lower bounce rates, more pages are being visited with every visit and doubled time-on-site.\n\nFor me enough reasons to believe it was a good choice to switch to a .com domain and to continue adding even more awesome blogposts! :)\\\n\nSome other stats for those who're interested:\n\nAround 5% of my visitors uses a mobile device (and uses the mobile-optimized version of my website). Most popular browsers are Firefox (48%) and Chrome (28%), the most popular OS is Windows (65%) followed by Mac (21%).\n\nBiggest traffic sources:\n\n1. Google (organic)\n\n2. Direct\n\n3. Magento.com\n\n4. RSS feeds\n\n5. Twitter\n\nThe most popular posts for this year:\n\n1. 101 ways to speed up your Magento e-commerce website\n\n2. Want a Quora invite?\n\n3. Magento Master E-course\n\n4. The Psychology of E-commerce\n\n5. Update: 101 ways to optimize Magento for speed"
}