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Wanna Know What You Said on the Carrots Survey? Ta Da!

October 16, 2014 By Haley 23 Comments

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Survey Results
Y’all, thank you SO MUCH for filling out the reader survey I posted on the Carrots five year anniversary post. I was honestly floored by how many of you took the time to help give me feedback and I really appreciate it. I love this little spot of the internet and I want it to serve my readers well. Thanks for such helpful feedback and for being the best readers ever!

I said I would give away a copy of our ebook, but y’all were so wonderful that I decided to give away 10 copies because…you deserve it. I sent emails to the winners so if you are one of the following lovely ladies, check your inbox!

Britta

Anne

Sarah

Alisa Zimmerman

Judith

Maggie Horn (p.s. Maggie, can you email me? Your email bounced back.)

Marie

Marilyn

Karen Jesko

Thea

I’m gonna break up the results of the survey into two posts because ain’t nobody got time for super long posts, amirite?! Today the basics, and next time the big lessons I learned. Here’s a few things that jumped out at me right away:

  • My average reader is a lot like me. 99% of my readers are women. Either that or men don’t fill out surveys on blogs. Daniel said, “700 people filled out the survey?! That’s crazy. I would never fill one out.” So maybe he’s not alone. Anyhow. Most Carrots readers are religious, married, mothers, and around my age.
  • But lots of my readers are very different from me, which I love.
  • You love that Carrots covers a variety of topics and you like almost all of them.
  • But most of you have at least one or two topics that you’d rather skip over.
  • You don’t agree on which topics those are. (For example, some of you said, “This Week’s Miscellany bores me to tears” and others said, “Can you please do more posts like TWM? They’re my favorite.” More on all that in the next post.

Ok, so here’s some graphics! Everybody loves graphics! I’m gonna start with some of the basics:

How old are you?

As you can see, most of you are in the 18-44 age range. I’m 29, so I’m kind of right in the middle there.
 

Relationship status is…

This was about what I expected. Shout out to all my single ladies!
 

How many kid live at your house?

To my readers who don’t have kids, thanks for putting up with all my mommy blog-ness. I’m glad you’re here 🙂
 

Are you a blogger?

Ok, this shocked me. 25% of you are bloggers?!!! Wow! That is a lot! Hi, fellow bloggers! Can we just have a big party sometime and talk blogs? Great. See you there.
 

What’s your religious affiliation?

Non-religious readers and religious readers of other faiths are in the minority, but I’m really glad y’all are here and I hope you feel welcome. You can’t really tell from the graphic but the giant slice of the pie are my fellow Catholics. And then that sizable other chunk are my Protestant sisters and brothers. Then the smaller little slice labeled Christian is the respectable showing from the Eastern Orthodox Christians.

 

Where do you spend most of your social media time?

Whew. What a relief. Looks like I don’t have to get good at Twitter (because I’m really bad at Twitter). I like Facebook and IG best, too, guys!

 

What do you think about Natural Family Planning?

Wow! Most of y’all practice NFP which is really great because it makes me feel less like a weirdo for using NFP. Solidarity! I was surprised that most of the Carrots readers who don’t practice NFP were interested in learning more about it and just 10% don’t practice NFP and would prefer I stopped blabbing about it so much. It was kind of a personal question, so I really appreciate you bearing with me. I was just really curious. It’s notable that in the comments you wrote, I got LOTS of requests for more posts on NFP.

 

Carrots Stuff:

  •  A big thanks to my fellow bloggers because half of you discovered Carrots when it was linked to by another blog. I appreciate it! And thanks for sharing posts on FB because that’s how most of the rest of you found Carrots–through a friend’s FB link.
  • Most of you come to the actual site to read each post. But a good portion of Carrots readers use Feedly, Bloglovin, or subscribe by email.

Ok, folks. Now the conundrums.

My favorite posts at Carrots are about….(choose 4)

Ok, so it’s pretty clear that Motherhood, Faith, Liturgical Year, Books, Marriage/NFP and TWM are all strong favorites. It’s clear that Blogging is NOT a favorite. Point taken, y’all. I don’t write about blogging very often but when I do….I just won’t write about blogging very often.

My LEAST favorite posts at Carrots are about….(choose 4)

So many of you said, “I didn’t fill out that part because they’re all my favorite.” Y’all are sweet and I’m glad some of you are happy with the mix just as it is. Blogging, Urban Homesteading, and Homeschooling are at the top of the un-favorite list. That’s about what I expected. What was interesting, though, is that Fashion was a least favorite topic for a quarter of you. However, it’s a top favorite topic for a different quarter of you. About 200 responses listed it as a favorite, and 200 responses listed it as a least favorite. You’re just going to have to agree to disagree on that one, guys.

 

Have you had enough of graphs? Yeah, me too. Next time we’ll chat about your other favorite blogs (so fun to read those responses!), your views on Carrots post topics, what lots of you love, what lots of you hate, and how those two are mostly the same (yikes!).

 

Again, I have to say thanks for your honest and helpful feedback. Carrots has come a long way in five years! And it’s mostly thanks to the amazing community of support from my readers.

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Comments

  1. Kate M says

    October 16, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    Daniel’s comment is so funny to me! My husband was actually the one who saw your survey first and then told me I should fill it out. 🙂 I’m looking forward to reading which other blogs are the most popular with your readers; that will be interesting!

    You’re doing a great job, Haley!

    Reply
    • Chris M says

      October 16, 2014 at 7:49 pm

      Your husband must be a pretty good guy. Nice of him to suggest helping Haley out.

      Reply
    • Haley says

      October 16, 2014 at 10:38 pm

      Thanks, Kate! I’m excited to share some of the awesome blogs y’all told me about. So many good ones and now my feedly is overflowing 🙂

      Reply
  2. Lisa says

    October 16, 2014 at 4:06 pm

    Ah!! I definitely said your homeschooling and urban homesteading posts were my favorites! Bummer that I’m in the minority!

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 16, 2014 at 10:41 pm

      They’ll still show up here and there, Lisa! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Adrie | A Little Wife's Happy Life says

    October 16, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    I think it’s interesting that so many of us are bloggers, but most people don’t want to read about blogging. Huh.

    And yay, other Protestants reading Carrots! I thought I was the only one! =)

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 16, 2014 at 10:41 pm

      That is funny, isn’t it?

      Reply
    • Lauren @ Faith and Macaroni says

      October 17, 2014 at 2:05 am

      Fellow [Lutheran] Protestant in the house! LOVE the insane number of Catholic blogs I read. 🙂

      Reply
  4. Susana says

    October 16, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    I was really curious about the results of your survey. I am glad you shared it! As one of the minority (atheist, love the urban homesteading and homeschooling posts ) I no longer feel like I am the only one here. I may be the minority, but at least I don’t stand alone =D Let me tell you that I really like your blog. Although we don’t have the same belief system, I see in you and your family, loving and caring persons, who live a life full of joy. An that is precious.

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 16, 2014 at 10:42 pm

      That is so kind, Susana. Thank you! So glad you’re here.

      Reply
  5. Victoria says

    October 16, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    Wow, it is so fun to read these stats, and well done on your 700 responses.

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 16, 2014 at 10:42 pm

      I was hoping I wouldn’t bore y’all with the numbers, haha. But I thought it was really interesting, too!

      Reply
  6. Jeannie says

    October 17, 2014 at 4:47 am

    I have to say that I was torn on the Fashion question because I’m….ummmm…very unfashionable, and I usually just skim other blogs giving clothing or makeup tips. But your Stitch Fix posts are some of my favorites because they’re so personal and Daniel’s comments remind me of my husband’s, so funny! It’s like going out with a girlfriend who needs a new dress but where I don’t have to try on any jeans.

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 17, 2014 at 8:56 am

      Aw, yay! That is exactly what I want them to feel like! A blogging friend told me, “I feel like we just went shopping together!” and I was so glad 🙂

      Reply
  7. Leah Heffner says

    October 17, 2014 at 6:45 am

    If that many of your readers are bloggers you could do a lot with that….like take a vacation lol or at the very least have killer link ups… Ha

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 17, 2014 at 8:56 am

      For some reason, I’m never drawn to link-ups. I don’t know why! But I do them every once in awhile….like….annually, haha.

      Reply
  8. Willow says

    October 17, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    “All the single ladies, all the single ladies…”

    Blog party!!! I’m in! We can chit-chat about blogging (since for some reason those aren’t popular posts??) and the blogs we love. The commute from SoCal to Florida is long but maybe we can set up a carpool? Looking forward to part 2 for sure 🙂

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 18, 2014 at 11:05 am

      Sounds amazing 😉

      Reply
  9. Mandi says

    October 17, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    I’m guessing that bloggers are overrepresented in the survey because they’re probably more likely to “help a fellow blogger out” than non-bloggers. I think they tend to comment more on posts for the same reason – they understand how much those comments mean to the author.

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 18, 2014 at 11:05 am

      I hadn’t thought of that, Mandi! That has to be it. 25% is a LOT, haha.

      Reply
  10. April says

    October 17, 2014 at 9:44 pm

    Wow 4 other Mormons read your blog regularly! I thought I was the only one.

    Reply
    • Haley says

      October 18, 2014 at 11:05 am

      Represent, April! 😉 I’m glad you’re here. <3

      Reply
  11. Bridget says

    October 23, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    More Urban Homesteading!

    I apologize for not doing the survey despite loving your blog. For what it’s worth, I started to fill it out! But then, babies, or toddlers, or maybe just something shiny distracted me and I never went back to it.

    Speaking of distractability and my “So, you know what I was thinking – SQUIRREL!- umm, what were we talking about again?” tendencies I did want to mention your blog is A LOT to handle. We’ve got a column of information and thumbnails on each side, a book advertisement on the top, tons of awesome pictures down the middle, and now a Holy Heroes bar at the bottom!

    I feel like I read 1/3rd of five things before I finish one post in it’s entirety. It’s an adventure 😀

    Reply

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