Here are the real stats for DotWeekly.com for the month of May 2009. I like to post these numbers so people can use them as a gauge to tools available like Compete.com, Alexa.com and other stats to try and help you out.
DotWeekly.com Basics
- Age of site DotWeekly.com: 1.6 years
- Money spent on advertising for the life of the site: $0
- Number of "Posts" currently: 926
- Website Powered by: WordPress
May June 2009 was the highest amount of uniques and hit’s DotWeekly has ever seen. The basics go as the following:
- Unique Visitors: 17,093
- Visits: 38,752
- Page Views: 148,257
- Hits: 797,861
- Bandwidth: 12.44 GB
The above stats do not include visits by Bots.
Visiting Length
One stat that means a good deal to me, is the Length the average visitor stays at DotWeekly. The average is 289 seconds (4.8 Minutes) which I think is great considering I mainly have all text. Reading a 300-500 word article doesn’t take very long, so seeing the 3.82 page avg per visit is also nice.
3rd Party Comparisons
Here are the current numbers according to Compete.com. It appears the stats are for April according to the data on Compete.com but here is what they say:
- Uniques: 12,474
- Visits: 56,831
- Compete Rank: 134,433
Just to compare, in April the actual stats for DotWeekly.com were:
- Uniques: 11,980
- Visits: 38,752
Here are the current numbers according to Alexa.com
- Traffic Rank: 78,373
- Page Views Per User: 1.5 (actual, 3.8)
- Time on site: 2.4 minutes (1 month average) (actual, 4.8 minutes)
- Search Percentage: 10.8% (1 month average) Amount of traffic that comes to DotWeekly from search engines. (actual, 18.8%)
Popular Times / OS / Browser
The most popular times on DotWeekly.com are from 11am to 3pm Central Time. I write at all different times, so this is simply a popular time frame when people visit the most and not based on when I post "new" writings.
The most popular Operating Sysytem (OS) is Microsoft Windows which holds 85.2% followed by Macintosh with 7.6%.
The most popular browser is Internet Explorer 53.2% followed by Firefox at 32%.
Traffic Source
73.9% from Direct Navigation / Bookmark
18.8% from Search Engine
6.9% from external links
SEO
Current SEO score for DotWeekly.com according to Whois and it’s SEO Text Browser tool is 94%.
I hope these numbers are able to help you out in one way or another. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask by posting a comment here.
Tia Wood
Did you mean “MAY 2009 was the highest amount of uniques”?
Jamie Zoch
@Tia
I must of been looking (at least thinking) of my glass ball again! I must of wanted May gone bad as I wrote June. Corrected and thank you for pointing it out.
Andrew
I’d recommend collecting data from Google Analytics and WordPress’s stats plugins to compare them to your page views numbers that your stats program is giving you.
Michael Burns
Well written article. I really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work.