24% of traffic to the front page is new visitors; 76% is returning visitors.
Overall site traffic is 51% new visitors.
Excluding post pages, landing page traffic looks like:
lesswrong.com
Landing Pages
20120213-20120314
Landing Page Visits % New Visits
/ 60,038 23.77
/r/discussion/new/ 5,972 2.34
/promoted/ 1,992 9.69
/new/ 1,886 3.50
/r/discussion/ 1,605 5.17
/about/ 1,439 19.39
/new 1,038 12.24
/comments 995 3.92
/comments/ 761 0.92
/message/inbox/ 513 0.00
/r/discussion 492 5.49
/r/discussion/comments/ 472 1.69
/user/Eliezer_Yudkowsky 371 3.77
/user/Eliezer_Yudkowsky/ 280 2.50
So this counts traffic that visits a given page as its first only? Maybe you could explain what the technical definitions of "landing page", "visit", and "new visit" are in the context of this comment.
What if the front page looked a little more like this?
(Please assume that I'm trying to help. If you're polite and constructive (even if you hate this design) Omega will send you bundles of love in the post. If you're rude, I'll personally fund ninja assassins to hunt you down.)