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Comment author: matt 15 March 2012 06:51:14PM *  7 points [-]

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
Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 21 March 2012 07:01:31PM 0 points [-]

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.