Site Traffic

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Keith

While the front-end content and development hasn't changed too much this summer, the 7-day site traffic last week was the best 7-day window in the brief history of ItB.com.

I promise I won't continue with mundane updates here, but ItB.com had its most single day traffic to date on Monday, only to be surpassed by the traffic counts yesterday (17% more than Monday in fact)... and if today's trend continues, there's a chance we might have three records in a row going here.

Soooo close to real football again....can't wait.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by Keith

I promise I won't continue with mundane updates here, but ItB.com had its most single day traffic to date on Monday, only to be surpassed by the traffic counts yesterday (17% more than Monday in fact)... and if today's trend continues, there's a chance we might have three records in a row going here.

Soooo close to real football again....can't wait.

Good cause I know people are getting tired of my threads, maybe we will get some new blood, but please no S!y, sorry can't type his name...

[painekiller]

OK Keith, any updates on volume?

[Keith]

Originally Posted by painekiller

OK Keith, any updates on volume?

Yesterday the server processed more traffic than the day before, meaning four straight days with a new record. Checking the unique visitor count through about midday today, we were just about at Thursday's pace, so it will be close to make it five in a row.

Under normal conditions, site traffic is busiest on Mondays and Tuesdays, so to continue the build through the end of this week is encouraging. That trend usually happened at HPF twice a year - now, during the buildup and first couple days of camp, and again in the days leading up to and including draft weekend.

On a side note... I don't mean to over-emphasize our traffic. We have plenty of capacity, and there aren't revenue building click-thru ads here. I don't spam other sites (and appreciate not being spammed in return), so the important thing is having the community of fans that we have in here already.

[Keith]

Updating an earlier post in this thread, we actually had six consecutive record days in late July (and seven of eight).

For August, our monthly unique visitor count has already set a new record with more than a week to go. Each month has had more unique visitors than the one before it, so I suppose another new record isn't a surprise, but it is another sign that our community continues to grow. Long past our first million hits, we ought to keep ticking up to our next million pretty quick (and yes, much of that traffic is from lurkers here in the forums. Our lurker to registered user ratio here is amazing. Smile and wave boys, smile and wave... )

Given the newness of the URL, nearly all of our traffic is organic and bookmarked (which is nice... cuts down on trolls, spam, etc.), and compared with other sites with big forums, our traffic is still pretty small. Relatively speaking, we get very little traffic from search engines and other outside sources, though I'm sure that will change and increase some over time. While we don't get a ton of linked traffic into the site, ItB.com has been linked by several other friendly sites (as I'm sure many of you can attest firsthand), and I'd like to thank a few of them individually here (in no particular order).

Matt and BFD at DGDB&D
The guys at BattleRedBlog
Steph at AOLFanHouse
Mods and posters at TexansTalk.com
Mike and crew at ProFootballTalk.com

Thanks!

[Keith]

One more friendly blogger I'd like to thank... Alan Burge, who now has his own site on Examiner.com. A little history - - Alan was the originator of the salary cap page on HPF.com, something I was quite thankful for since I was about to start it myself and didn't want the hassle.

http://www.examiner.com/x-778-Houston-Texans-Examiner