In terms of traffic, I had a goal going into the month of May: reach 100,000 pageviews. I had come close in April, with just over 94,000 pageviews, so I figured that the next logical goal was to hit 100K.
I watched my traffic move up and down through the month, and at times it didn’t seem like I would reach my goal in May. When I looked at the final traffic numbers, I had actually achieve my traffic goal in pageviews. The traffic stats for May 2011 are below.
A Month of Traffic Milestones
While I did achieve my goal of 100,000 pageviews last month, I also had achieved to other lifetime milestones, which I will get into shortly. First, however, the graph below displays the comparison between May 2011 (blue) and May 2010 (green).
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I am once again happy with the increase in traffic year-over-year. All my activity online, such as blog commenting and participating more in social networks, as really shown to be paying off.
It was about this time last year where it seemed my traffic had started to reach a plateau. I decided earlier this year to post more and become more involved online to break free of the plateau.
The comparison numbers for May 2011 and May 2010 are as follows:
| Metric | May 2010 | May 2011 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 40,952 | 76,105 | 85.84% |
| Pageviews | 53,163 | 106,530 | 100.38% |
I am happy to see that my pageviews have doubled over the past year, and my visits increased almost 86%. These two numbers helped me to achieve two lifetime milestones in both visits and pageviews.
During May 2011 I received my 1.5 millionth visit to Technically Easy, and achieved my 2 millionth pageview. It is always great to reach lifetime milestones as well as monthly ones.
Traffic Sources
As in previous months, and for as long as I can remember, my main source of traffic is still search engines. The graph below shows the breakdown of the different traffic sources.
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Search engines account for just over 83% of traffic to Technically Easy, which is down slightly from April. Referring traffic has passed direct traffic as my second traffic source.
There were many referring sites, and outside Google the most significant site that referred visitors was StumbleUpon. I don’t use that network as much as I would like, and seeing as it is a good provider of traffic, I will probably use it more often going forward.
Going Forward
While I have achieved my traffic goal in pageviews, I will now concentrate on increasing that goal to 200,000. My next main goal, however, will be to reach 100,000 visits for a month, which will require me to increase my traffic about 33%.
If I become more active on social networks, and continue to publish 5 posts a week, I’m hoping to hit my goal by the end of this year – hopefully sooner.