One year ago yesterday, the first post for this blog was posted. Since I’m a pretty big fan of statistics, here are some relevant numbers for this first year.
- 81 posts
- 169 comments
- 18,241 page views
- 13,988 visits
- 7,700 visits from Search Engines
- 4,153 visits from Referrals
- 2,135 visits from Direct Traffic
- 11,104 visitors
The top 5 posts.
- Wedding Playlist
- Brett Favre vs Aaron Rodgers thru 20 Career Starts
- Review: Sony HTCT100 Sound Bar
- Sliding Door Buttons
- Did Andrew WK twitter to me?
It appears that most of my content is being accessed via search engine and referrals. Also, writing about a variety of topics has actually worked out well for me. I have a list of blog topics that I plan on writing about in the upcoming months. I also plan on increasing the frequency of posting (I’d like to average two posts a week) and I’ll probably redesign the blog in the next few months.
So, thanks for all of you who have visited my site in the past year. I hope you continue to find value here and feel free to leave any comments/suggestions below.
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So how many of those 18,241 page views were for “Wedding Playlist”?
6,329 were for the Wedding Playlist.
Happy belated one year.
I’m not too surprised you have high search referrals; for sites that cover a lot of ground that seems to be the norm. For last year, 82% of my traffic came via search.
Other important numbers are the number of pages per view or bounce rate; do searchers find other things on your blog to read, or are they done after the single page?
#1 suggests the latter, but #2 on your list suggests, to me, that those people might bounce around your site a bit more (especially if WordPress recommends other posts to searchers, as some others do).
No, unfortunately I have a pretty high bounce rate. I hope to redesign my theme in the next few weeks. My plan is to create something that encourages more exploring and return users.