This is in follow-up of part 1 of our August monthly update.
Part 1 mostly covered the monetary aspect while this part will outline how things went from a traffic and popularity aspect.
First, let’s look at our monthly AwStats traffic report:
AwStats reported 8,123 unique visitors and 463,126 total pages viewed for August. Google Analytics was not installed on SiteFever until the end of the month. However, our AwStats vs. Google Analytics report on August 31 showed that Google showed an approximate 25.7% difference in traffic over AwStats. Using that percentage, we can estimate that if Google Analytics had been tracking our stats all month it would of reported approximately 6,035 unique visitors and 34,102 monthly page views.
In addition to traffic, I have also been tracking some other stats as well:
Technorati Authority
Technorati Rank
RSS Subscribers
Alexa Rank
MyBlogLog Community Members
All of the above stats showed a dramatic improvement throughout the month. Put into a percentage, here’s what I’ve come up with:
All of the stats showed over a 300% increase throughout the month while our RSS subscribers increased over 500%. We hope that our RSS subscribers continue to increase each day.
My purpose in showing all these stats and charts is twofold. First, some of you simply ask me to show them- a few are just curious and others are interested in advertising and would like to see how well the blog is doing. Secondly, I really want to stress the importance of tracking your progress over multiple channels.
So many blog owners have been caught up in the PageRank frenzy and have forgotten to pay attention to anything other than a number that Google assigns them 4 times per year. I strongly recommend that you make yourself a spreadsheet and track your stats on a daily basis. With just a few clicks, you can easily make yourself a chart to visualize how your blog is doing from day to day. This will help you quickly spot any areas of your blog that you may need to put a little more emphasis on.
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Article posted by: Neon on September 1st, 2007
Nice job! Huge increases across the board.
With this new theme, maybe you’ll hit the $17k like John Chow
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I have heard of tracking visitors and rss subscribers before but I never saw anyone track this much detail before.
I guess thats what makes this blog successful is by watching all of your stuff very closely.
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Excellent stats, congrats on the increase in visitors - hopefully it will translate into more ad conversions.
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I find it difficult to believe you get 36 page views per visitor. If that were true, you have THE best blog on the planet.
John Chow for Aug. 2007 got 337,852 page views from 170,465 visitors. You got 463,126 from 12,805. If that’s the case you should be making some John Chow type money!
Per Alexa: Page Views per user for Sitefever.com is 4.3.
Something isn’t right with your numbers. Regardless, it seems you are getting some good traffic! Google Analytics should clear things up for you!
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Patrick,
I only report what I’m given.
I don’t know if you read it or not, but I linked to my previous post of AwStats vs. Google Analytics: http://sitefever.com/awstats-vs-google-analytics/
Google Analytics shows 3.55 pages per visitor. The entire post highlights the differences in AwStats vs. Google. Just so you know I’m not trying to lie or cover anything up- I am very upfront with everything and show screenshots for every statistic that I report.
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Your math is still off.
“we can estimate that if Google Analytics had been tracking our stats all month it would of reported approximately 6,035 unique visitors and 344,102 monthly page views.”
Don’t you mean 34,410 page views for the month?
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*updated*
34,102 page views. The visitor calculation was right. There was an extra 4 in the pageview number. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
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This is cool. I want to do little charts like this but alas I think it might take me too long? My CTS is coming back too. I’ll have my reports up Monday but it won’t be so fancy. Goodjob! That e-book, err I mean article :c) really helped and plus I think the No Ad Networks. You did such a great job, we can all learn from you that is for sure.
I think PageRank is going to be coming around Christmas time! That my best guestimate.
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I saw your blog is doing very well in Technorati lately. You must be doing something right! I’ve pretty much given up all hope when it comes to PageRank.
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