Monday 25 February 2019

We know what you like


Owners of websites and bloggers alike know the power of site analytics. That’s the back end stats that tell you many people in Russia have checked out your latest creation, from what referring site, using what browser. Its fascinating stuff (no, really) and you can spend hours wading through it (assuming you receive enough traffic to create the stats).

For the modest but elegant numbers of non-Russian visitors to this here blog (and even for some of them) I’d like to clue you into some other stats that are pretty significant. It seems like there’s a pattern emerging in the streaming for certain tracks on the Hopkinsville Goblins releases available on your favourite streaming services. Whether it’s the way things are tagged bringing in specific music hunters, or whether people are just previewing and choosing what they like on the fly, it seems like people like streaming three tracks from Posts from Planet Earth together as a group and then going onto their next trip. I don’t have the power to link the streaming stats to country referring site or browser, but what I can tell you is that people dig the three spaciest tracks on that album. And why not. It’s the final frontier and we do aim to please.

So with that in mind, this page hooks you up to what the most discerning Hopkinsville Goblins fans are streaming. Check them out, and if you like them there are another 30 or so tracks you can peruse while you’re at it.

PS Russian visitors really go for Amerikaemia. Not sure if it’s because it’s a free download or because they actually like it. The stats don’t go into that kind of detail. Yet. But I’m sure the great Goog is working on it. And we’ll be watching. Because we all want to know what makes each other tick. There’s a song percolating on that for the next Hopkinsville Goblins product. More about that later.