Vowel Length of the Top Million Website Names

Ever thought, How many vowels are present in award winning successful website names? How are these websites named? Of-course if you think about it, the answer seems pretty clear at first. When you name a website, it has to have enough letters to make a meaningful yet logical impression on the viewer's mind. However, a name that is long taxes the memory of the viewer and it is unlikely you'll...

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Character Length of the Top Million Website Names

How do you choose your website name? Is there a thumb-rule? How do you ensure that your website is among the top million websites around the world? So, apart from the exceptional content, intelligent digital marketing and beautiful design, you now have another parameter to worry about. It is worth mentioning that I haven't even started with the number of internal and external links required...

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Website Name Trends in the Top Million Websites

1 Billion Websites! That is the number of indexed websites that exist on the internet, as per the estimations of dazeinfo and Dailymail. New websites are constantly being added. What is surprising is that the top million often remains unchanged. Alexa provides data for the top 1 million best performing websites of the world. But, is there something other than amazing content, Beautiful...

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An experiment on user response to Colors

This is an ongoing study on the change in perception of users to colors. An excellent infographic from kissmetrics and webscout implored for a change in color combinations on webpages to elicit certain responses from the viewers.  To exemplify, red denotes energy and passion, however, yellow displays enthusiasm. So one can use such colors based on the visitor demographics you receive....

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Relation Between Page Views and Syllables, A Comparison

How do syllables lead to difference in page views? Does the number of syllables in a passage actually make the reader's job difficult or easy?  There aren't enough things that can be modified by a writer. But the short list would include definitely include syllables. Syllable in the simplest of form can be called as a unit of tone itself. When you pronounce 'SOBER' you actually combine...

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Relation Between Page Views and Sentence Length, A Comparison

Can you read really long sentences? Can you digest a sentence containing 50 words? We have seen in a previous article that higher complexity leads to lower number of visitors.  What happens when you use long sentences in a webpage? What is the optimum number of words a sentence must contain to ensure maximum user retention and interaction? Let us start with an example. Sample A Here...

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An Experiment on the Ease of Reading Text

Though it is true that the real information about the quality of text can be collected by reading it, there exist better empirical ways to do that for you. To judge the text in accordance with such empirical methods require some raw data.  For instance, the average number of words per unit sentence, the percentage of complex words in the text, and the average number of syllables per word. To...

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The Relation between Reading ease and Viewership

Ever wondered, how your writing style affects the number of visitors at your blog?  We often wonder what do people mean when they say, quality trumps quantity. Or when people say, "You need to focus on your content to leverage your SEO practices". Who knows what type of content qualifies as quality content? So we at codemakit, performed an experiment to find out "How does page views...

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What happened when I increased Font Sizes

Website font sizes are an important factor in determining if a visitor leaves your website happy or sad. The current study will help you figure out what effect increasing your website's font size will have on the overall quality and quantity of visitors. One of the most popular articles on codemakit was based on a study which answered a simple question. One which has been asked by numerous...

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How will my Blog Die? (New and Returning Visitors)

There are two types of visitors on a blog, an impressed one which has returned to the website and an unimpressed one which has arrived for for the first time. Note. If you think you've missed the previous part, check out the 'When will my blog die?' study from the start. Several parameters define the quality of visitors on a website, percentage new sessions and percentage returning sessions...

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