Let me start by saying that these statistics don’t tell the whole story. There are four measures of traffic. Unique visitors, Total visits, Page views and hit. The first three are self explanatory. Hit are “each file sent to a browser by a web server is an individual hit.” Obviously hits are a very inaccurate measure of traffic. The month of March saw 4,360 unique visitors, 10,988 total visits, 68,498 page views and 251,815 hits. Numbers were up significantly from the first two months of the year.
The following is based on page views and is most certainly not an accurate measure of traffic between the blogs. How inaccurate is this? I won’t bore you with the exact details of how this is calculated, but I took the time to calculate the difference between page views of a blog and unique visitors. The numbers are way off. I’m thinking margin of error of at least 10%. Having said that, it is still fun to posts these graphs and let the trash talking ensue.
This will be the last traffic report for a while. After spending sometime going through these numbers and comparing them to ‘Gate’s numbers, I have decided to find an entirely new method of tracking traffic. If you have suggestions, let me know.
It has been a really long time time since I’ve made one of these updates. I am going to try to start doing these about every three months. The main reason I put this off is that I had fallen pretty far in the rankings and wanted a chance to redeem myself and my blog. When Memorial Day Weekend rolls around you all can start bugging me for another update.
Unfortunately I am still #2 on my own blog network. I’m not sure what to say about that.
‘Gate Blog – 48.1%
KyleLibra.com – 25.3%
Great American Sports Blog – 13.3%
Hamby’s Blog – 11.0%
Richmond’s Blog – 2.0%
The most obvious conclusion I can draw from this data is the relationship of updates to traffic. If there is nothing to look at, no one will visit. The quality of updates probably factors in as well, but there isn’t really a good way to measure that.
For those of you who aren’t big on twitter, here is another reason to get with the program. A whopping 17.6% of my blog’s traffic came directly from links I tweeted. This was the main reason I was finally able to pull back ahead of the Sports Blog.
When I looked at specific ip addresses viewing the blogs it became apparent that Hamby looks at his own blog the most causing his traffic to be slightly inflated. I am probably guilty of this as well, but with the constant travel it isn’t really easy to figure out. I didn’t factor this in to the graph, but I might in the future if I can figure out an easy way to do so.
I would really like to see some other blogs join the network. If you are interested, let me know.
Update: After a good suggestion by a friend, I am going to start tracking month to month data of the blogs through a line graph. This way we can see who is going up and down in traffic in relation.