What this site is used for
We measure how goodcitizens.us is used so we can make it work better, and we publish what we find, including the numbers that go against us. It counts what people do on the site, never who they are.
- Visits
- 296
- 70 this week, down 54% on the week before
- Pages read
- 716
- Found their way by keyboard
- 1%
- Clicks made with a key
- 0%
| Week of | Visits |
|---|---|
| Oct 5 | 78 |
| Oct 12 | 149 |
| Oct 19, so far | 70 |
01 · How people find their way
Most visits arrive on a phone, and our tools don’t run there
73% of visits this month arrived on a phone or tablet. Every free tool runs from a bookmarks bar, which phones and tablets don’t have, so for most visitors the tools are something to read about rather than use. That’s ours to fix.
Of the visits that opened a free tool, 43% were on a phone.
| Input | Visits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Touch | 110 | 73% |
| Mouse or trackpad | 38 | 25% |
| Keyboard | fewer than 10 | 1% |
| Setting | Visits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Phone-width screen | 211 | 71% |
| Touch only | 204 | 69% |
| Can hover (mouse or trackpad) | 82 | 28% |
| Desktop-width screen | 66 | 22% |
| Prefers a dark scheme | 15 | 5% |
| Laptop-width screen | 14 | 5% |
| No pointer | 10 | 3% |
| Tablet-width screen | fewer than 10 | 2% |
| Asks for less motion | fewer than 10 | 1% |
02 · What people read
Pages, and how long they hold
Engaged time is time on the page with the tab in front and some sign of a person, a key, a scroll or a touch, in the last thirty seconds. It is the median, so one tab left open overnight does not move it.
The most-read pages
- 1down 69% on the week beforeHome (/)129 views, 13 s median, 39% read ¾
- 2down on the week beforeA Study of Our Type (/writing/type-study)55 views, 13 s median, 38% read ¾
- 3down on the week beforeOur brand (/brand)47 views, 40 s median, 30% read ¾
- 4down on the week beforeOpen numbers (/open)38 views, 28 s median, 60% read ¾
- 5up on the week beforeThe Big-Mad Behavioral Study (/big-mad-study)35 views, 29 s median, 42% read ¾
- 6down on the week beforepaulagallery.com · Digital representation (/work/paulagallery)32 views, 73 s median, 38% read ¾
- 7down on the week beforeThe character game (/play)32 views, 15 s median
- 8down on the week beforeCanonical Presence: the same story, wherever they ask (/writing/canonical-presence)31 views, 39 s median
- 9down on the week before/play/… (/play/…)28 views, 10 s median
- 10down on the week beforeTerraQuotes™ (/terraquotes)23 views, 23 s median, 45% read ¾
- 11down on the week beforeWork (/work)22 views, 38 s median
- 12new this week/work/ecommerce/fine-art (/work/ecommerce/fine-art)21 views, 19 s median
- 13down on the week beforeThe character interview (/brand/character)20 views, 4 s median
- 14down on the week beforeDon’t wait months to see it work (/writing/we-run-trials)19 views, 12 s median
- 15down on the week beforeWriting (/writing)17 views, 10 s median
| Section | Page | Looks | Engaged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everyone rents it. Almost nobody owns it. | /writing/canonical-presence | 10 | 36 s |
| Drawings, figures and the things people rest on | /open | 13 | 23 s |
| Three things from Paula, and the rest follows | /work/paulagallery | 10 | 20 s |
| Three moves, built from how she works | /work/paulagallery | 13 | 20 s |
| What we hold to under pressure | /brand | 21 | 15 s |
| How we work with you | /work | 15 | 15 s |
| Clicks, and what comes next | /open | 14 | 14 s |
| Every size is a rung on one ladder | /writing/type-study | 12 | 13 s |
| More, if you want it | /audit/brand | 16 | 12 s |
| What has to happen first | /big-mad-study | 12 | 11 s |
| What the off-the-shelf site couldn’t do | /work/paulagallery | 11 | 9 s |
| We turn how an art business already works into software that sells for it. | /work | 39 | 8 s |
03 · What people look at
Drawings, figures and the things people rest on
A figure is seen while at least half of it is on screen. A hover is a pointer resting on something for at least four tenths of a second, so passing over a thing does not count.
Figures, by how often they are looked at
- 1down on the week before
Art for: Public Lands (/)42 looks, 2 s on screen, 2 s engaged - 2down on the week before
Art for: TerraQuotes™ (/)42 looks, 2 s on screen, 2 s engaged - 3no change to showUnnamed (recorded before figures were named) (/)38 looks, 4 s on screen, 4 s engaged
- 4down on the week before
One check-in. Whether software was part of the moment is read from what people wrote, so the questio… (/big-mad-study)36 looks, 3 s on screen, 3 s engaged - 5down on the week before
Art for: Goodfood™ (/)34 looks, 2 s on screen, 2 s engaged - 6down on the week before
Art for: The Incubator (/)33 looks, 2 s on screen, 2 s engaged - 7down on the week before
Art for: The Big-Mad Behavioral Study (/)32 looks, 1 s on screen, 1 s engaged - 8the same as the week before
About a week each, five to ten minutes on the days people take part. Recruitment stops at 90 people… (/big-mad-study)28 looks, 4 s on screen, 4 s engaged - 9down on the week before
Our type sizes, every second step. Each is the two before it added together, to within a grid line. (/writing/type-study)17 looks, 4 s on screen, 4 s engaged - 10down on the week before
One baseline · true relative scale · an inch is an inch on every row1Act I, Seen But Not Heard · 200… (/work/paulagallery)17 looks, 4 s on screen, 4 s engaged - 11down on the week before
Robert Duebelbeis · founder, Good Citizens (/brand)15 looks, 5 s on screen, 5 s engaged - 12no change to showUnnamed (recorded before figures were named) (/harness)14 looks, 2 s on screen, 2 s engaged
| Thing | Hovers |
|---|---|
| /work/paulagallery | 28 |
| /open | 27 |
| /writing/we-run-trials | 26 |
| /writing/type-study | 24 |
| The Make GOOD Work sign-off | 23 |
| /brand | 20 |
| Email us | 20 |
| /writing/canonical-presence | 19 |
| /#ventures | 18 |
| Figure: Art for: TerraQuotes™ | 16 |
| /terraquotes | 15 |
| /dispatches | 14 |
04 · What people do
Clicks, and what comes next
The most-used links and buttons
- 1same place/#ventures28 uses, 0% by keyboard
- 2up 1/work21 uses, 0% by keyboard
- 3down 1/open21 uses, 0% by keyboard
- 4up 1/brand17 uses
- 5down 1Home16 uses
- 6same placeShow the lattice14 uses
- 7same place/work/paulagallery13 uses
- 8up 1/play11 uses
- 9up 2/big-mad-study11 uses
- 10same place/writing/type-study10 uses
- 11down 3/writing/canonical-presence10 uses
| What | Times |
|---|---|
| Copied text | 31 |
| Panned a drawing sideways on a small screen | 25 |
| Opened a disclosure | 19 |
| Followed a link off the site | fewer than 10 |
| Opened an email to us | fewer than 10 |
| Opened the booking calendar | fewer than 10 |
| Dragged a Usability tool to their bookmarks | fewer than 10 |
| Finished an experiment: fitts | fewer than 10 |
Where visits came from
- 1same placeTyped in, or no referrer234 visits, 79%
- 2same placeget-a-bob.com24 visits, 8%
- 3same placelinkedin.com13 visits, 4%
- 4Everywhere else, or not recorded25 visits, 8%
| Address | Visits |
|---|---|
/privacy | fewer than 10 |
| All visits that hit a missing address | fewer than 10 |
How we count
What we keep, and what we never do
A visit is a random id held by your browser tab for as long as the tab is open. It is not a cookie, it does not follow you to another visit, and we never store your address, your device’s fingerprint or your IP. Crawlers and link previews are left out, and so are people who work on the site.
We record pages read, where a visit came from, the first input it used, the screen width and the settings people ask for, links and buttons used, things rested on, how far down a page people read, time spent with each section and figure, and moments like finishing an experiment or booking a call. We never record what anyone types, and when text is copied we keep its length and where it came from (a paragraph, a quote, the email address, and the heading of its section). On our public pages we also keep up to 160 characters of what was copied, because it’s our own writing; never from a private page, a form field, or anything that looks like an email address or a phone number. A passage shows here once at least 10 copies stand behind it.
One exception, so we can mend it: when an address doesn’t exist, we keep the address, without anything after a question mark, and the site the link was on, but not the rest of that site’s link. An address appears on this page only once two or more people have tried it.
Because nothing here can be tied to a person, we count visits from browsers that send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control in the same way. A count under 10 is shown as “fewer than 10”, and a share only appears with at least 20 visits behind it. Typical times are medians.
A team’s circle and an audit report each have a private address, so they’re counted together as /play/… and /audit/…, never one by one. A page’s or a figure’s chevron is its last seven days against the seven before, per day counted, with the percentage once both weeks have at least 10; elsewhere, Δ week is a row’s move in its list. ★ is new, – is no change.