I was looking at my all-time visitors stats for Technically Easy and noticed that I was approaching a milestone: 1,000,000 (1 million) visits. I enjoy looking at the visitor stats for my blog, mainly because I am a stats-junkie, but the stats provide a lot of information about who visits my blog.
Sometimes I also like to view my all-time stats – take a look at my visitor information since I started the blog (June 23, 2007). It was about two weeks ago that I noticed I was approaching this milestone. Since then, I decided to write a post about it, and look at some of the stats since I started this blog.
Visit Milestones
Visits Count - All Time
June 23, 2007 - September 13, 2010
As I mentioned, I am a stats-junkie. I decided to look back over my stats to see when other visit milestones were achieved. The table below lists some of the previous milestones that were achieved.
| Accumulative Visits | Date Achieved | Number of Days from Start |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | July 17, 2007 | 24 |
| 1,000 | September 17, 2007 | 86 |
| 10,000 | January 6, 2008 | 111 |
| 100,000 | July 27, 2008 | 400 |
| 500,000 | September 27, 2009 | 827 |
| 1,000,000 | September 13, 2010 | 1178 |
The visit stats shown in the table above show how the number of visits Technically Easy received as time went on increased. For example, it took 400 days to reach 100,000 visits, but only an additional 427 days to receive 400,000 more visits. In a similar fashion, a total of 827 days passed to achieve 500,000 visits, but only 351 days were needed to double that number to 1,000,000.
While it the number of visits I received in the beginning was low, as the days, weeks, months, and years went on, the number of visits began to increase. Hanging in during the slow times, and continuing to write content contributed to this increase.
Visits Graph - All Time
Note:
The drop down to zero for a few days towards the right of the graph was a result of forgetting to add the Analytics code to a new template.
With the current rate of traffic, I’m looking to achieve 2,000,000 visits in about 580 days, but hopefully in less time.
Visit Traffic Sources
The traffic sources is an important stat that any blog owner, or webmaster, likes to view. It helps to see where your visitors are coming from as it indicates which site is the most beneficial at providing visitors to your blog.
For Technically Easy, a large portion (81.05%) came from search engines, while 11.05% came from referring sites and 7.87% came directly to my blog.
Traffic Sources - All Time
The one issue with having so much of my traffic coming from search engines is that if the search algorithm were to change, I may lose a large chunk of my traffic. I will need to work on driving traffic from other sites to supplement my search engine traffic.
As for the actual sites that are providing this blog with traffic, the top ten sites are as follows:
Top 10 Traffic Sources - All Time
As you can see, three search engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing, are in the top 10 for traffic sources, which is expected since search engines are the largest traffic source for this blog.
In December 2007 I joined Entrecard, and stopped using that service in January 2009. Interesting that three Entrecard referrals are still in my top 10 in traffic sources. While this chart doesn’t show bounce rate, out of all the traffic sources, all Entrecard referrals were the only sources that had a bounce rate over 90%. It may be traffic, but it isn’t the traffic I am looking for for my blog.
You may also notice that wikipedia is listed as a source of traffic. A few years ago I had a link to my blog in an article on wikipedia, and it resulted in good traffic everyday. Unfortunately, the link has since been removed.
While I am happy that the traffic to Technically Easy is growing nicely, I also know that there is always a lot of work that needs to be done. I am hoping to reach 2,000 visits per day by the beginning of 2011, and 2,000,000 visits by the end of 2011. With some work, I’m sure I can succeed with both goals.
Do you have any traffic goals for you blog?
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on September 15, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I would be very interested to know what you think of this:
http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2010/09/blogosphere-stops-here-better-blogging.html
AND
What made you pull out and away from Entrecard – what lesson did you learn and how much did it affect your incoming traffic and what did you do to regain it? (Inquiring minds wanna know!)
on September 15, 2010 at 2:01 pm
I have read about several bloggers who have been affected by Google’s new instant search option. My blog hasn’t been affected, in fact, my Google organic traffic has been increasing. As I mentioned in the post, I am a little worried that most of my traffic comes from search engines – it is the “all my eggs in one basket” situation.
I read the list of top young bloggers, and it is interesting how individuals so young can achieve so much success. As Dragon Blogger mentioned, many of the bloggers create “make money online”-type blogs, which can be a prosperous, but very difficult niche.
As for Entrecard, when I joined it seem like a promising network. Unfortunately, as time went on, it became very poorly managed, and a lot of tension grew between bloggers, and the owner. After a while, many of the blogs on the site were spam blogs, and the credibility dropped considerably. Most of the traffic I received from Entrecard wasn’t much more than the “drop-and-run” kind, so it was worthless traffic. I dropped Entrecard in favour of CMF Ads (the founders were Entrecard members when I was there).
When I left Entrecard I never noticed any drop in traffic – as you can see from my visit graph. It seems my search engine traffic was enough to offset anything Entrecard sent my way.
on September 16, 2010 at 2:20 am
congrats Paul.. those are great stats
I tried entrecard, but they want my banner to be placed at the very top instead at the middle of my sidebar, so I just removed it entirely.
Keep up the good work Paul!
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on September 16, 2010 at 8:12 am
Thanks. I’m not into networks that force me to place their widget/gadget in a specific location on my blog. It’s my blog, and I should be able to place things where I want.
on September 15, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Paul what an awesome milestone. I just love the steady progression that is evident in the graph. It just goes to show how your strategies have paid off. I’d love to hear more about them. Congratulations and keep on doing what you do!
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on September 15, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Thanks Ileane. I’m not sure what my next milestone will be, so I’ll have to wait and see. I’m hoping the steady progression in the traffic graph continues for a very long time.
on September 16, 2010 at 8:48 am
Hey there Paul, now that’s some awesome stats and now that your Alexa rank is improving, lets hope you get even more traffic coming your way
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on September 16, 2010 at 10:44 am
Thanks, Karen. I wonder how my Alexa rank will affect my traffic, if any.
on September 17, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Impressive progress and Congrats for the success up to here. In fact your content is great and you are consistently working good, must be the reason of steady progress.
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on September 17, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Thanks. The steady content is probably one reason, and also consistently ranking well for good keywords.
on September 18, 2010 at 8:23 am
Wow Paul,
Thank you so much for coming over to my blog today and commenting, so that I could find this post!
A real inspiration lies within this page – and I love that you not only shared your awesome Milestone (congrats btw) you also gave us a status of how you got there month by month (well random days – butstill)
Really makes me want to spend time here and dig through your archives to see if I can learn some of the tactics you have used to get such a fantastic Organic traffic percentage over time!
Sheer brilliance!
on September 22, 2010 at 10:37 am
Thanks for visiting, Alex. I’m hoping to not only increasing my organic traffic, but also to add supplemental referring traffic.
on September 20, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Amazing stats mate…Getting traffic from wikipedia is very cool….How do got link from wikipedia ?– Sudharsan @ Technoskillonline
on September 22, 2010 at 10:40 am
I had added my link in the “External Resources” (or something similar) area of a page. It was eventually removed because it was considered spam.
on September 27, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Congratulations for your great success. Wishing you all the luck.
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on November 2, 2010 at 1:38 pm
congratulations dude. thumbs up
on November 2, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Thanks.