Much like July, the traffic stats for August were pretty steady throughout the month. There were a few dips that were followed by increases, but overall the traffic level remained consistent.
The one thing, however, that I have noticed is that my traffic seemed to have a minor slowdown compared to both July and August 2010. While there is still a nice increase year-over-year, the overall increase was lower than the previous three month increases. Below is my traffic analysis for August 2011.
The Steady Traffic Trend
When looking at my traffic stats for August I notice that the traffic from day to day is fairly steady. Some days may seen fewer visitors, while others may see more visitors. This is quite normal as each day won’t produce the same number of visitors.
The overall average traffic, however, appears to have remained stead throughout the month. There were no noticeable social networking traffic spikes, no were there any mysterious drops in traffic. The chart below shows the traffic levels throughout the month.
Traffic Stats - August 2011
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While the traffic remained steady, year-over-year there was a healthy increase in both visits and pageviews. The increase, however, was the lowest since I started to record my traffic stats. The past three months has usually seen an increase over 70% for visits and over 80% for pageviews, but this month both values were lower.
The table below shows the traffic difference year-over-year for the month of August.
| Metric | August 2010 | August 2011 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 53,116 | 89,957 | 69.36% |
| Pageviews | 68,754 | 122,022 | 77.48% |
In terms of comparing the previous month, there was a slight increase around 1,300 visits and an increase of 12 pageviews. While the visit number was a nice increase, the pageviews was very minor. I’m hoping that as long as I continue to publish posts 5 times a week, that I will see the increase month-over-month.
Traffic Sources
As usual, my search engine traffic leads the way in terms of traffic sources. Traffic from search engines accounts for just over 86% of my total visits. The chart below shows the breakdown of my traffic sources.
Traffic Sources - August 2011
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Compared to my previous month, both the direct traffic and referring traffic was down compared to the previous month. Combined the decrease amounted to about 2,000 visits for the month.
The decrease in both direct and referring traffic was offset by the increase in search engine traffic, so overall the total number of visits increased this month over the previous month.
I am hoping to have a better increase in traffic for next month which will hopefully help me to approach 100,000 by the end of this year or the beginning of next year.
Tags: Blog Analytics, Blog Traffic, Traffic Stats
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on September 2, 2011 at 10:19 am
I suggest that you strengthen your weak points like search engines. Search engines can provide you more traffic just need to create more links for your site.
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on September 3, 2011 at 3:50 am
you will get you goal surely. keep going with hard work
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on September 3, 2011 at 10:07 am
Thanks. I’m hoping to get there sooner rather than later. We’ll see.
on September 3, 2011 at 8:35 am
@Tanya
I don’t think search engine traffic is one of this blogs weak points…LOL!!!
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on September 3, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Hm.. It’s quite steady. But it’s already good I guess.
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on September 8, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Excellent traffic Paul, you can surely reach the 100,000 visitors mark soon. It seems Google like your blog a lot, nice traffic from search engines
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on September 8, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Thanks, Rojish. I am hoping to hit 100,000 visitors soon, and it is nice that Google sends me a lot of traffic. I would also like good traffic from other sources, but search engine traffic is always nice.
on September 10, 2011 at 10:10 am
Wow it’s huge traffic for blog. I hope my site also can reach huge traffic like this blog
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on September 12, 2011 at 8:26 am
Thanks. I am hoping to increase my traffic levels going forward.
on September 10, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Your traffic is amazing. Can you share your monthly earnings and what making money programs you join like others? sorry..
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on September 12, 2011 at 8:24 am
At the moment I will keep my earnings to myself. Most of my earnings do come from AdSense, and I am slowly making progress with Amazon. I have also started to make some money through private ad sales, so I am slowly starting to diversify my income.
on September 13, 2011 at 8:38 am
Amazing numbers man!
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on September 26, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Nice work Paul. You apparently have the knowledge to generate the right site and market the traffic. Curious to know how long it took you to go independent? Did you learn that on your own or did you have some training? I have enrolled in the University of San Francisco’s
online marketing courses. The information is current and at the very least I will have some formal training from an accredited university that is ranked highly by US News and World report.