Where do your visitors come from?
by Randall McCarley
October 20th, 2006
Continuing the topic of analyzing your logs, some other things I look at include the number of unique visitors (57%). What browsers are used to view the site (FireFox leads at 45%, Internet Explorer has 29%). And of course where my traffic comes from:
- Forums: 38%
- Search Engines 21%
- Social Bookmarking: 16%
- Blogs: 16%
- Articles: 6%
- Services: 1%
- Email 1%
- Directories: 0%
This shows how valuable directories aren’t. I am super-active in several forums, which explains the high percentage there. Usually I’d expect less than 5%.
And this doesn’t include the 86% of overall traffic that is direct. These visitors either know my URL and type it in or are returning through bookmarks (mostly the latter I suspect - the two most popular articles are the first two articles I wrote: Get Free Backlinks and Get Indexed Fast).
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