Time for the year-in-review style posts. Andy's started it off with his top 10 posts and now it's our turn. All data is sourced from our Indextools install, which excludes spider visits.
First off, our most popular blog posts:
- 5 HTML Elements You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)
Pg Views - 113,000 - How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve
Pg Views - 58,000 - Interviewing Web Developers - 20 Good Questions to Ask
Pg Views - 48,000 - How to Convince a Client Their Site Doesn't Need Music
Pg Views - 38,400 - 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
Pg Views - 32,900 - How to Convince a Client They Don't Need a Splash Page
Pg Views - 27,310 - A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available
Pg Views - 24,200 - 10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic
Pg Views - 23,400 - Top 100 Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content
Pg Views - 21,000 - 11 Best Practices for URLs
Pg Views - 18,000
Top Referrers:
- Direct Access (feeds, bookmarks, type-in) - 720,147
- Digg.com - 180,375
- Google.com - 157,517
- StumbleUpon - 60,161
- Del.icio.us - 39,834
- Bloglines - 19.521
- Google.co.uk - 17,283
- I-mezzo.net - 13,111
- blog.searchenginewatch.com - 11,043
- reddit.com - 10,274
- Google.ca - 9,994
- search.yahoo.com - 7,868
Visits by Month:
- January - 108,067
- February - 84,673
- March - 120,701
- April - 115,477
- May - 120,701
- June - 86,696
- July - 174,848
- August - 268,952
- September - 182,760
- October - 249,511
- November - 186,484
- December - 166,112
Top Search Phrases:
- IP Lookup - 8,578
- IP Location - 8,047
- SEOmoz - 8,032
- Web 2.0 Awards - 4,927
- Web 2.0 - 3,517
- SEO Tools - 2,455
- IP to Location - 1,887
- Redzee - 1,410
- Internet Advancement - 1,359
- Page Strength - 1,335
- Google Patent - 1,233
- IP Map - 1,202
- SEO - 1,023
- Search Engine Ranking - 959
- IP Address Lookup - 951
Top Search Engines:
- Google - 231,563
- Yahoo - 8,437
- MSN - 5,169
- Alexa - 613
- AOL Search - 559
- Ask Jeeves - 456
- Dogpile - 335
- MSN Sympatico - 284
- Blueyonder - 198
- AltaVista - 179
Top Countries:
- United States - 817,282
- United Kingdom - 132,138
- Canada - 104,863
- Japan - 66,198
- Germany - 56,483
- Spain - 55,678
- France - 54,116
- Australia - 43,570
- India - 38,453
- Italy - 38,138
- China - 34,347
- Netherlands - 27,452
- Brazil - 27,158
- Sweden - 20,395
- Poland - 15,921
Returning Visits (I like this because, to me, it shows how many "SEOmoz addicts" we're building month-to-month):
- January - 31,432
- February - 29,874
- March - 36,737
- April - 43,749
- May - 38,529
- June - 32,004
- July - 47,114
- August - 70,894
- September - 64,364
- October - 77,430
- November - 70,789
- December - 67,037
Feedburner Stats (from late July to present):
- 4,131 subscribers on average (all time)
- 5,840 subscribers as of today
- 5,387 subscribers (averaging the past 30 days)
- 118,695 clicks to content from feeds (all time)
- Chart below shows agents:
Hope some of you find all of this as fascinating as I do! I'm also crossing my fingers that more bloggers will start to release their stats at the year's end.
Rand,
Kudos on the stats and working Stumble well, so many were sleeping on stumble but it's getting SEOutrageous on there lately.
Despite the fact that my stats pale in comparison to yours, I've heeded your request (hope? wish?) to give out my stats as well. Unfortunately, the stats available to me are miniscule, but the very basics are there. I've also noticed a couple others have also published their stats.
Dude, I have like 60 subscribers and 500 uniques a day... and to think I was proud of that :-(
Maybe I should "borrow" Matt to post a few blogs on the ole thinkbait to get dugg!
So the Top 4 (and 5 of the Top 6) are written by Matt. Well done, dude. I hope that's rewarded in your upcoming paychecks. :)
*hires matt mcgee to work in the seomoz finance department*
I noticed that too.
Hi Rand.
Impressive stats. I hope I have something to talk about next year. I'm just curious...does Digg traffic help, in terms of getting you new business? I mean, is it relevant? It could be relevant if you published ads, which I don't see on your website. Have you been able to figure out what sort of traffic helps you generate more business?
Rand & Matt, you've outdone yourselves :)
Usually I only waste about 20 mins at work each day reading your blog, but this was the mother of all top 10's, each item lead to another exciting new list.
5'oclock came awfully fast today.
Thank for all your hard work.
I wish I had similar stats for any of my sites :) anyway, congrats, keep it up !
One of the astounding stats is the preponderance of Google activity versus that of the other engines. There have been some recent articles about SE traffic as reported by webmasters versus SE traffic as reported by the major market analyses firms.
The webmaster data skews enormously towards google and puts Y, MSN, and other engines to shame.
After seeing data suggesting google retains somewhere between 40-60% of search traffic stats like yours, Rand are revealing.
Dave
Great stats! Puts my blog to shame it does :)
G-Man
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A new era has begun:
This illustrates the decline on the dependancy on Search Engines and Search Directories (Yahoo, Dmoz) in getting traffic.
Digg.com - StumbleUpon - Del.icio.us - Bloglines represents more than one half of all referrers.
Even with Page 2 Google rankings for the competative: SEO & Search Engine Ranking - for most of the year, they did not bring in the majority of keyword traffic.
Having a Page 2 ranking for the highly competative: Search Engine Optimization did not even push it into the top 10 of keywords.
Of course, the only downside of social site marketing is that like PPCs it only lasts until the next 'power charge'
But interestingly, many of the keywords that did bring in traffic may not be the most relevant for long term users.
Perhaps keywords: Web site promotion, Internet Marketing, - might be the next frontier
Cool stats, thanks for sharing Rand!
Interesting top posts...I had a whole different list of my favorite SEOmoz posts. I'm giving you some applause for being so open with your numbers!
I wouldn't say these are favorites, but rather, posts which earned us the most traffic (i.e. that's what the Digg crowd loves).
Can we ask how many feedburner subscribers you have? Or was that posted somewhere else and I missed it?
I've added in the Feedburner stats - good thinking!
Nice post.
"A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available Pg Views - 24,200"
Hmm. It seems like this puts an approximate upper bound on the number of SEOs on the web. :)
Matt - you give us too much credit :) By your logic, the maximum number of bloggers on the web would then be 32,900.
Besides, I heard that a few SEOs have given birth over the last few years - we're replicating faster than you can ban us!! mwah hah hah!! (speaking of which, I should have a chat with Mystery Guest soon)
I hear someone firing up photoshop now. Little Rand, where did you go? ;)
So that's what you kids call it these days "having a chat".
Thanks for sharing this data Rand - very interesting to see trends throughout the year.
Did you post anything like this last year? Are there big differences? Have you compared monthly data/ratios from year to year yet?
It would be interesting to see how you've grown from Jan to Dec '06 compared to the same time period in previous years.
I can't wait for the new site to launch so I'll have time to write more blog entries. Numbers like this are very encouraging :)
Nice stats. I was going to request this of you, especially for bookmarking purposes. I ended up writing a top Internet Marketing posts of the blogosphere and listed my favorite SEOmoz posts for particular categories.
Interestingly enough on those stats, the top posts are actually more web development related and not SEO related. Looks like a Digg effect in action.
Very interesting.
Where did the boost in traffic in August and October come from? And where did you go?
Also, when do you guys expect to post the Financial info? I'm definitely looking forward to that.
Boris
Boris - Mostly Digg, with a bit of other large portals, too (del.icio.us/popular, Reddit, mentions on lots of blogs, etc.). Note how the large traffic months spike in accordance with the publication date of many of Matt's "linkbait" style blog posts.