We’re always interested in seeing who’s visiting and what they’re doing.
On a lazy July Friday afternoon, it was the U.S. House of Representatives, where someone spent 10 minutes perusing our front page.
These screenshots are from the analytics service Clicky, which will tell us — depending on how your internet is configured — who you are, where you came from, what you did, how much time you spent here. That sort of thing.
It’s intriguing to watch. Also revealing about who’s interested in our work and why.
For example, on this same day, Friday, July 6, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina spent 10 minutes trying to figure out whether people can be charged for colonoscopies.
Also we were visited by these places with “hospital” in their name in the last couple of months. It’s nice to see HCA likes us; in New Orleans, our coverage of HCA affiliate Tulane University Medical Center elicited protests. Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals is in Philadelphia, where our partners at The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily News, philly.com and 6ABC Action News are clearly getting attention from Thomas Jefferson.
Also, we saw these visitors from the Department of Health and Human Services in the last month. In truth, we think Clicky underreports visits — partly because mobile providers are recorded as mobile providers, rather than enterprise internet providers. Also notice the time per visit of more than 8 minutes. That’s very high by web standards; the time per visit is one of the ways web sites measure how interested people are in their stuff. Here’s an explanation. More to come.
(If you missed it, here’s our Clicky-related post about how .edu domain visitors seem to be looking for abortion pricing.)
Jeanne Pinder is the founder and CEO of ClearHealthCosts. She worked at The New York Times for almost 25 years as a reporter, editor and human resources executive, then volunteered for a buyout and founded ClearHealthCosts.
With Pinder at the helm, ClearHealthCosts shared honors for the top network public service journalism project in a partnership with CBS News, as well as winning numerous other journalism prizes.
She was previously a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism. ClearHealthCosts has won grants from the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York; the International Women’s Media Foundation; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation with KQED public radio in San Francisco and KPCC in Los Angeles; the Lenfest Foundation in Philadelphia for a partnership with The Philadelphia Inquirer; and the New York State Health Foundation for a partnership with WNYC public radio/Gothamist in New York; and other honors.
She is one of Crain’s Notable Women in Tech. Niemanlab wrote of ClearHealthCosts that “The Internet hates secrets.”
Her TED talk about fixing health costs has surpassed 2 million views.