A Quick Look at Blog Traffic Patterns

November 17, 2007 by Jonathan 

Something funny happened Wednesday, my traffic spiked. Now let’s set out the facts first, my is not very widely read. More people read my Tweets than my blog. However, in the case of writing about new products and services (which I often do), it’s not uncommon for a normally average to be catapulted into craziness.

That’s not what happened here. This is full of ideas, thoughts, happenings, and more from my personal and professional life. I even pulled in some very old posts recently from earlier blogger blogs that I’ve had into this one. I really enjoying and I enjoy going back to read old posts that were otherwise long forgotten.

What I found out yesterday was that for the first time in about a month, traffic went up drastically. The reason apparently being the word-of-mouth spread of my post about CaspioVote. My first look into their new voter’s guide application was immediately picked up by , as are all of my blogposts, in fact on many days the web spiders create more hits than actual visitors.

As some of my loyal readers know, I consider myself a new- evangelist, someone who learns about, researches, and the word about new delivery methods involving new-, social-, and rich applications. In fact, nearly every post on this in September were short 1-2 paragraphs of all the hot new web 2.0 of the year.

And now back to the of traffic, Wednesday was a peak in the graph of my analytics software (Urchin on my server, and Google Analytics on the page).

Here’s some facts and figures from the logbook:

  • Average daily time per post: 1:12
    • Wednesday’s average time per post: 8:03
  • Average daily unique visitors: 22
    • Wednesday’s unique visitors: 39
  • Regular top referring sites: Direct (people who have my bookmarked), and (each new post gets announced on my Twitter Page
    • Wednesday’s top referring sites: Direct, and TheScoop.com

So there you have it, some interesting facts and figures on the daily traffic patterns of my visitors. It’s a lot of fun to go through the server logs and the analytics sessions because you can actually see exactly the route people take as they navigate around, and you can get a pretty good idea of who they are or who they’re affiliated with by their IP address or hostname.

I’ve recently been hearing good things about Mint - a fairly new web analytics suite that’s very inexpensive. Have you used Mint or know someone who has?

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