Technically Easy didn’t see anything too exciting with regards to traffic levels in June. The steady trend of visitors that has been seen in the past couple of months continue throughout last month as well.
While having steady traffic is great, especially with Google’s algorithm changes, I am continuously looking for ways that I can increase the number of monthly visitors. I am more focusing on diversifying my traffic sources, which seems to be a harder task for me at the moment.
Steady Traffic
As I mentioned above, June continued the steady traffic pattern throughout the entire month. One day the traffic goes a bit higher, and then next it would go a bit lower. The chart below shows the steady line of traffic throughout the month.
As can be seen from the chart, there is a slight increase to the number of visitors compared to the previous year. While the gains aren’t as great as they were at the end of last year, they are still some nice gains. The table below shows the numbers between June 2012 and June 2011.
| Metric | June 2011 | June 2012 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 75,287 | 87,897 | 16.75% |
| Pageviews | 103,557 | 111,168 | 7.35% |
The above numbers shows that while the number of visitors increased by 16.75%, the total pageviews only increased by 7.35%. This means that the visitors are actually viewing less pages each visit. I will be looking to improve this going forward.
With regards to the number of visitors, this actually is an increase compared to May 2012, which is great. June has one less day than May, so having more visitors in less days means that the number of visitors increased slightly.
Traffic Sources
As usual, search engines comprised the vast majority of traffic to Technically Easy. Just over 88% of visitors to Technically Easy arrived by a search engine. While this is great, I am still looking at attempting to balance out my traffic sources to avoid so much reliance on one source.
Direct traffic was second, albeit a distant second, with just under 7% of traffic with referrals much farther behind at just under 5%. For the second straight month the campaigns source appeared in the list of traffic sources, and sent 17 visitors to Technically Easy.
Overall, it wasn’t a bad month in terms of traffic, with a healthy increase in visitors form a year ago. Compared to the previous month, there is a nice increase also, despite June having one less day than May.
As always I am looking to increase the number of visitors to Technically Easy, even if it is a small increase.
20 Comments
Hi,
This is a good amount of traffic and the increase in traffic is good. I don’t reach the 80.000 visitor monthly amount on neither of my sites. The traffic from search engines is quite big.
An interesting thing that you could add it can be the amount of money that you are making with this site and traffic.
BR,
Dragos
Good stuff. Keep up good work! Because of lots of useful information I can find on this blog I pop in every time I can. Simply great source of tips and trick regarding technology and internet.
Twitter: hypernovadesign
Excellent going man! you continue to be getting awesome hits after the big G Penguin Update.
Its nice to determine your site for very first time and that too very first post statistics of 06: )#)
I am impressed by the traffic stats of the blog.
Thanks, Edward. I am happy that the Google Penguin update hasn’t affect my traffic much. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for similar results with future updates.
Great traffic with search engines, very inspiring. Hope we will reach there someday.
Thanks for sharing it…..
Best wishes………..
Twitter: techblowup
Your Organic Traffic is so high , that is really good, can you share some methods to gain such Search Enginer Traffic.
Twitter: techbloghub
For my blog, the posts that get the most organic traffic are the tutorial or “how to” posts. These posts usually end up being shared by others, so they quickly rose in the search results.
Great going man ! you are still getting awesome hits after GOogle Penguin Update.
Its nice to see your site for first time and that too first post statistics of June:)
I am impressed by traffic stats of your blog.
-S
Twitter: shashank_1990
Thanks. I have been relieved to see that the Penguin update hasn’t affected my traffic, especially since most of my traffic is from Google.
Love me some google analytics. Keep track of my stats every day. Thanks for the post.
Twitter: Android_travels
Wow that’s a huge search traffic percentage. Well at least that shows your SEO is working. You have that solid foundation so with a little luck referral links shouldn’t be too hard to build!
Hi Paul
As always a great insight in the traffic statistics on your blog. I am still very impressed about the massive traffic you have on your blog. I know how much work it takes to write good quality posts to attract visitors to a tech blog. Thank you for some great inspiration.
Twitter: techwork_dk
Thanks, Thomas. I am hoping to increase my numbers to at least the same level I say late last year.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for sharing your (June) website statistics with us; And the screenshots – not manipulative images drawn up in an excel sheet. And yes – I think most webmaster and SEO’s will agree that ranking in Google SERP’s (well – ranking good actually) is a lot harder than one might think wen reading posts and articles. With the recent (and vague descriptions) of the algorithms and the functions of the algorithms has made it a lot more “Challenging”. And with the recent focus on Negative SEO one normally never knows when your site has been hit – until it’s too late.
Twitter: antonrsa
I’m not one to manipulate my traffic stat images – it is just too much work and no benefit. Ranking in Google SERP’s is hard, and can be frustrating also. With so much of my traffic coming from Google, I do fear that a future algorithm change will drop my traffic drastically, which is why I am looking to increase both direct and referral traffic numbers.
Challenges makes you going and keep on with your positive thinking, your post are factual based on statistics and analysis.
You have suggestions for aspiring sites?
Just keep writing content, remain engaged with your readers/followers, and don’t give up.
Paul,
That’s still an impressive stats, but I know this issue. Ups and down in traffic make every webmasters frustated, especially with the Algo frequent changes.
I notice there are more than twice in 4 months Google changes the SERPs.
All the best though, your blog is great.
J.
Thanks, John. With the frequent algo changes, it can be challenging to keep up and continue to get traffic from Google. I guess if you are conservative with how you manage your site/blog, you shouldn’t need to worry too much.