The last posting of Analytics Reviewed, I showed you a major spike in traffic to the site. Primarily due to Destin leaving ScrewAttack to move out to San Francisco for a new job opportunity. The question of how often a posting like this should be done was also asked.
There were a lot of different answers, so Destin and I agreed that once a month I would release the analytical information, until people got bored of it. But how can anyone get bored of looking at such wonderful statistics is a mystery to me. (Yes, that is call being facetious.)
So from here on out, until either I or everyone else gets bored of seeing this information, the first Sunday of the new month will have the previous months analytics posted.
So lets take a look overall look at the statistics. Up 453.35%, Wow… Now if the US Economy could do that in a month the government would be out of debt. More than 40 thousand visits to the site as well. Keep in mind that is returning visitors and not the actual uniques. All and all, not shabby by any means for a first month.
There were two large spikes, the largest being March 8th, with 3,227 visits, what caused this spike I am really not sure. However a lot of traffic came in from ScrewAttack. The second largest was on March 22nd where a total of 2,126 visits. Yes there was a bit of a down turn between these dates, but as shows have been posted on a more regular basis the traffic has picked up.
Now lets take a look at what the most popular postings of the month were outside of the homepage.
What!!! Are you kidding me? Not Gaming News 002 was the most popular posting for all of the month of March? What on Earth causes that? That’s almost 4 times the amount of traffic as the Premiere Episode.
Lastly, lets look at some source information. Essentially the “How people got here” information.
The left hand column are the “keywords” people used in the search engines to find The Daily DL, and the right hand column are the different ways people came to the website. It’s all pretty self explanatory, so I won’t drone on and on and on with a mind numbing explanation as to why… blah blah blah… blah.
Next month I will do a comparison of the previous month versus that month. So if analytics drop a lot I am personally blaming everyone else for not postings links up on the web in Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon or Tumblr. So get out there and help try and make a difference.
Posted by: Gibbous
Posted on: April 3, 2011
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@maximusmann Now onto something more interesting.
@JOSH When starting your own website you have to remember that the written content is what is most critical. (Google Analytics and many other analytical systems help immensely.) This is not just for your visitors, but for the Search Engines. Always remember there are two things your trying to achieve. Pleasing the visitors and appeasing the Search Engine Gods. (Yes, I also do SEO aside from Design and Code.)
@TheNemesis Yeah… Both Destin and I are shocked that Not Gaming News 002 has gotten so much traffic to it. It looks like most of the traffic is coming from StumbleUpon. I wonder if posting these shows on Dig would help drive more traffic?
Yep, no big surprise how many hits the site has so far.
Though I am still surprised that of all the stuff Destin posts, his Not Gaming News post got the most hits. XD
I’m actually interested on looking to this. I’m also building my own personal webpage so these stuffs would probably help me give some ideas on managing the site. A big thanks to you, guys.
Nice!
..ok, I’m bored.
HAHahhaaaa… Nice one FanBoy. But if that’s the case then Not Gaming News 004 should be getting a ton of hits as well. Kristen Schaal is totin’ a nice pair, of hand grenades that is. :D
And on Not Gaming News 003 there was chic getting spanked and that posting did piss poor. True shame is what it is.
“Not Gaming News 002 was the most popular posting for all of the month of March? What on Earth causes that?”
One word, boobies.
that is all. XD