Stats Published By Age and/or Location

[Jason Rimbaud]

Probably not the right place to ask. But I have been searching for stats on readers by age group and/or location. Is that something GA tracks? 

This is me wondering how many younger people even read anymore. 

And if this isn't the place, I apologize in advance. 

Thank you. 

[Myr]

Nope.  Google is no help either, as there is no age data for 80% of our traffic from there end. The largest group from google we get data on is 18-24 and second largest group is 25-34.  The 65+ group is the next largest.

But that only represents 20% of the traffic to the site we have data for. My gut feeling is that it is not representative.

 

[Jason Rimbaud]

Thank you Myr!  

[Myr]

15 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Probably not the right place to ask. But I have been searching for stats on readers by age group and/or location. Is that something GA tracks? 

This is me wondering how many younger people even read anymore. 

And if this isn't the place, I apologize in advance. 

Thank you. 

So, this isn't reading stats. This is site member stats based on your profile setting for age range:

[Jason Rimbaud]

It's not the data I was originally looking for. But this informs my assumption about who is reading.

Since you already ruined my slight crush I had on your avatar, I shan't make any remarks regarding my current feelings for our resident wizard. I shall only say thank you for continuing to check. 

Maybe I should put up a poll regarding readers, their habits, when they started reading, how often they read currently. 

I guess what I was interested in finding out, how many of GA members picked up reading at a later age which might explain why our younger members have a small representation. Or is reading going the way of the past and in thirty years no such sites such as GA would exist. 

I'm also curious about how many younger members might not read but instead opt to listen to books via Audible or other such platforms. 

[Myr]

1 hour ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

I'm also curious about how many younger members might not read but instead opt to listen to books via Audible or other such platforms.

That would be interesting data. 

We are getting close to the point where all written content can be read to you in a realistic voice with preferred accent. It kind of works now with Edge. We will have code in place after the forum upgrades to make that better as well. 

[William King]

22 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

is reading going the way of the past and in thirty years no such sites such as GA would exist. 

All is not lost to the immaterial world: 

‘We need to go places and touch things’: the people turning away from smartphones

Disquiet over social media addiction is leading to a growing enthusiasm for Polaroids, postcards and the physical and analogue world.

This article was published over a year ago in the Guardian: 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/12/young-people-turning-away-from-phones-social-media-addiction

Nothing to do with site stats, but an interesting trend.

[Jason Rimbaud]

2 hours ago, William King said:

All is not lost to the immaterial world: 

‘We need to go places and touch things’: the people turning away from smartphones

Disquiet over social media addiction is leading to a growing enthusiasm for Polaroids, postcards and the physical and analogue world.

This article was published over a year ago in the Guardian: 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/12/young-people-turning-away-from-phones-social-media-addiction

Nothing to do with site stats, but an interesting trend.

That's good nose.