Week 1 traffic report

Figure: The week-one traffic record of lestorigo.blogspot.com as recorded by sitemeter.com. "Visits" represents the number of unique visitors on that day, and "Page Views" indicates how many times the blog is entered by these visitors. In other words, a visitor can only increase the "Visit" count once per day, but s/he can increase the "Page Views" count as many times as s/he refreshes the browser.


As shown in the figure, there are two significant peaks over the past week. The first one occurred on Monday, December 18th, and the second one occurred on Friday, December 22nd.
The first peak is believed to be due to my efforts in advertising for this blog on Saturday, which coincides the conclusion of most of my friends' exams. The combined effect is the steady increase over the 2-day period. Note that the number on Friday and Saturday are not accurate, because the site meter was installed on late Saturday night, so the seemingly steady increase of visitor traffic from Friday to Sunday is misleading.

After the peak of 20 visitors on Monday and three days after the public announcement of LeStorigo, the visitor traffic diminished. Some half a dozen regular visitors (one of which is me) maintained the traffic flow.

On Thursday, Tina joined as a co-author and publicized LeStorigo on Friday, which leads to the second peak of 25 visitors and a staggering 85 page views. From the observation of the first peak, I predict that there will still be a large volume of traffic over the weekend, and the traffic will die down again after Sunday.

eBay Lego market report

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Ladies and gentlemen, I. Spent. Again. But wait! Hear me out. This time I was seriously just doing my eBay Lego market research, and I stumbled across this amazing deal of 10 lb of Lego for $26US. Remember that I spent $9.99 on the first pound of lego.

Let's let the graph speak. If you would kindly examine the first figure, you will quickly see the expected positive correlation between Lego weight and total price. More Lego cost more money. Note that the seemingly ripped-off-ness of my first Lego purchase at $9.99 per pound follows the trend at the lighter-weight Lego packages, meaning I wasn't ripped off after all.

But please take a closer look at my most recent purchase at $26 for 10 pounds. Note how much lower it is compared to the neighboring dots. As my seller pointed out, I had a lucky win because the other 10lb shipment that he sold, was bidded at $56. Notice how this price fits the trend much more closely than my abnormally low $26.




Please take a look at the second figure. This graph shows the negative correlation between the unit price of Lego and the total weight. This is also expected, because as we buy larger packages, we usually get more discount. However, note that my abnormal $26 purchase is even lower than the 50lb purchase, which was sold at close to $180. This says that my more recent purchase was more economical than even the super size purchases.


Hence, my overspending after vowing not to overspend is justified.
Thank you for your attention.