Internet April 4th, 2007 by HMTKSteve
Wondering about my traffic numbers?
I know a lot of bloggers like to display their traffic numbers to impress their readership. Up until now I have been against the practice but, I'm going to indulge my audience this one time with my traffic numbers for the year thus far.
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| Jan 2007 | 16772 | 24990 | 123066 | 359707 | 3.32 GB |
| Feb 2007 | 20146 | 31934 | 150723 | 475941 | 3.81 GB |
| Mar 2007 | 54678 | 85331 | 377455 | 1328160 | 12.55 GB |
| Apr 2007 | 2848 | 4098 | 15950 | 49035 | 528.31 MB |
| Total | 94444 | 146353 | 667194 | 2212843 | 20.19 GB |
There you have it, right from my server.
You might be wondering, "with traffic like that, what kind of money are you making?" That, dear reader is one question I can not answer. What I will say is that I've only sold one text link adv in my sidebar and they are currently quite cheap!
Impressive numbers :D As long as you see an increase from month to month that’s good news..
I may not get nearly as close to as much traffic as you, but since I implemented the kontera I haven’t made a cent :(
The only problem with the above traffic numbers is that I have a somewhat crappy hosting company that “loses data”. What I mean by that is on real heavy traffic days my back-end stats show 0 traffic for the whole day!
If anything, the above numbers are lower than the actual traffic numbers.
How long have you been running Kontera? It took a few days for us, but we’re making around $0.60/day with a peak at $1.92 one day. The tough part for us (and I saw you had the same situation) is that the links are really specialized. I’m getting a lot of “shopping.com” and “dealtime.com” links instead of very specific links that are more likely to drive traffic through. Hopefully we’ll start to sell some better links as we get more traffic, which will hopefully be worth more than a few cents each click.
wow.. thats a great deal of traffic.. I would think you should be good with the revenue ;)
Are those numbers just from this blog? Or other sites as well?
Those numbers are from hmtk.com, which consists of the blog and my software business. The blog is the traffic magnet.
Steve, why don’t you use Google analytics? The data my sites show from Webalizer are heavily skewed due to spiders and the like.
Oh, and my numbers are far from impressive. :D
You must have missed my earlier post about leaving off the analytics code when I changed blogging platforms!
I do use the Google Analytics service but, I did not use it everywhere until recently. Thus displaying those numbers would look wrong as there would be a very deep valley in the middle of two peaks.
The spiders due skew your hits number but not your uniques.
I only trust the uniques and pageview numbers.
Number of visits can be extrapolated (sort of) to indicate how often people come back and how stable your readership is.
HMTKSteve,
Regarding your comment, “I only trust the uniques and pageview numbers.”
Ditto for me.
I also trust the bandwidth number as I pay for that! It just has no bearing other than in decideing which hosting package to go with.
Steve, thanks for sharing with us. Impressive numbers … Mind sharing with us where most of your traffic came from last month? :)