We are proud to announce that our English blog “About Food in Japan” (http://aboutfoodinjapan.weblogs.jp) has produced over 300 posts since its launch on February 2008, a few months after Michelin red guide for Tokyo was published for the first time.
Celebrating the 5th anniversary, as below, we are pleased to present site access report for our blog.
＜Basic Information＞
Period for reported data: 2nd May 2010 to 1st January 2013 (total 32 months)
Data taken through：Google Analytics
Website URL：http://aboutfoodinjapan.weblogs.jp
Total posts：313
Contents proportion: 60% restaurants, bars and café, 20% sweets and food, 15% news and events, 3% introduction of tourism destinations
＜Overview of site access＞
Total page view during the period：51,562
Total unique user during the period：46,206
Site accessed from ：144 countries or regions
Top 10 countries or regions from which the site was accessed the most
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No.1 |
Japan |
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No.2 |
United States |
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No.3 |
Singapore |
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No.4 |
Australia |
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No.5 |
Hong Kong |
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No.6 |
Thailand |
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No.7 |
Malaysia |
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No.8 |
United Kingdom |
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No.9 |
Canada |
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No.10 |
France |
*Proportion – No.1 Japan 37%, 2nd U.S.A. 17%, 3rd Singapore 8%
Accessed users’ language
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No.1 |
English |
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No.2 |
Japanese |
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No.3 |
Chinese |
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No.4 |
French |
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No.5 |
Korean |
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No.6 |
Spanish |
* Proportion – No.1 English 71%, 2nd Japanese 14%, 3rd Chinese 3%
We found that a lot of site users are accessing from Japan. Considering the fact that 71% of access users are English version users, majority of users from Japan would be non-Japanese who stay temporary or reside in Japan.
Share by posted contents category
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Contents category |
No. of articles posted |
Share in articles posted |
Share in Page view |
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Restaurants & bar |
159 |
50.8% |
40.3% |
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News*1 |
39 |
12.5% |
12.6% |
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Café, tea salon |
33 |
10.5% |
11.4% |
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Food (except for sweets) |
33 |
10.5% |
8.1% |
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Sweets |
29 |
9.3% |
24.6% |
*1 － “News” includes information about publishing products, events or trends related to food.
Analyzing variance in shares between in articles posted and in page views, it seems that accessed users has high interest in “Sweets” category.
＜Report by articles posted＞
Here we have top 5 or 10 ranked articles listed as below.
The rankings are based on average page view per day (total page view /number of days since posted) for Restaurants & bar category or total page view during the reporting period for all other categories.
Click the tiles on the list to move to a listed article.
Restaurants & bars
It is our policy to select and introduce service providers with high quality, good service and excellent in cost performance from user’s view point. With such conditions, we see various types of restaurants ranked, casual or upscale, non-Japanese etc. In any case, they are top of our recommendation as well.
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No.3 |
Umaya (うまや), Kabuki actor produced restaurant, Akasaka Tokyo |
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No.10 |
Katsukichi (かつ吉), Shibuya (渋谷) - Katsudon (カツ丼, deep-fried pork bowl) |
*Based on average page view for each post
Sweets
We confirmed that Rusk "Gouter de Roi" by Gateau Festa Harada is quite popular with two related articles ranked.
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*Based on total page view during the report period for each post
News (publication, events and trend etc)
4 out of 5 ranked articles are related “Michelin” restaurant guide which must be paid attentions by a lot of site audience.
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No.2 |
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No.4 |
郷土料理（Kyodo ryori, local specialty） - JAPAN'S TASTY SECRETS issued |
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*Based on total page view during the report period for each post
Café, tea salon
Apart from Rose Bakery collaborating with COMME des GARCONS produced by a Japanese designer Ms. Rei Kawakubo, all ranked are made by international brands. We could not see name of any Japanese traditional sweet producer or green tea café on higher rank, in spite of the interesting option to spend time in Japan. One reason of this result would be, unlike Izakaya, no unique and fixed concept and a word representing such cozy places. We will consider more opportunities introduce some Japanese tea salon or café near future.
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*Based on total page view during the report period for each post
Food (except for sweets)
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Dairy products from Hokkaido - Machimura Farm (町村農場) at Marunouchi |
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No.5 |
Takara no fu - 宝の麩 ("Treasure" instant soup by Fumuroya 不室屋) |
*Based on total page view during the report period for each post
About this blog “About Food in Japan” (http://aboutfoodinjapan.weblogs.jp/):
About food in Japan is a blog in English for those who are planning to travel in Japan, non-Japanese people who are living in Japan and all who are interested in food culture of Japan!
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