For the last couple months, I’ve been tracking a bunch of stats on the website. When I upgraded to the new version of WordPress I went and added Google Analytics as well, which gives me tons of information. One interesting thing I’ve noticed is that there are two search queries that are consistently in the top ten for search results that bring people here. The first is “are guns good investments’ , or some similar phrasing, and the other is “HK flare pistol”.
Both of these posts are from several years back, yet they are always in the top ten of searches that brought people here. (Other search terms on that list are “commander zero”, “notes from the bunker”, and other obvious hits.)
Some other interesting stats – hits from the US account for 94.23% of traffic. Of that, Texas is the largest percentage of hits (10.76%), followed by California, Florida, Washington and Virginia.
Biggest referrers? Prepperwebsite.com with 17.23% of referral traffic coming from them. Followed by Survivalblog.com, offgridsurvival.com, and suburbansurvivalist.
After the main page, the post that gets more traffic than any other is this one, making up 2.6% of all posts read by people. (That doesnt sound like a high percentage, but with over 1300 posts on the website the fact remains that this particular post is seen by more people than anything other than the most recent post at the top of the blog. The next most popular draws less than half that amount of attention.)
And the thing I get asked about most in email? Where I got the new header graphics for the website. We’re steadily decliing into a Third World economy and this is what people ask about..’whered you get those cool pictures?’ (They were turned up in some late night random Google surfing.)
Page hits is about 1000 a day, which is kinda sad considering how long this blog has been running…but thats cool since I really post for myself and not for the fame and notoriety. (Although, to be honest, from time to time I’ve gotten some cool stuff out of it.)
Anyway, I thought I’d share a few of those stats since I find them interesting.
CZ, more stories and pictures of Nuke the Bioweapon please. Oh and an update to your post yesterday:
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/08/17/man-faces-charges-of-abandoning-dog-on-mountaintop/
I post photos of Nuke all the time on my blog. He has his own category. if you want to look at older ones.
Appreciate the sharing, because I am curious what kind of numbers someone that I would think of as a ‘big boy’ blogger usually gets. On a good day, I am right around the 100, 120 mark, and my biggest search hit is usally a picture I posted of the actress Kat Dennings over a year ago…
It is a nice picture.
that is VERY interesting..I visit your site pretty much daily. and I do enjoy the pictures also. Keep it up my friend. peace, Shadofaxhound
You are not getting counts from Live Journal and and any other places you cross post, so I would think your “hits” are much larger that you think.
I, for one, only click here to comment, and then not often.
Re: Header graphics- we are all about the image, out here on teh intertubes.
all my IPs are belong to you
I’ve read on other blogs that anything your write on WordPress belongs to WordPress, that you don’t get copyright. This has kept lots of bloggers from using it, apparently.
Hmmm. Perhaps if the site was hosted by WordPress…but this site is hosted elsewhere. WP is just the software that formats all the code. That would be like Microsoft saying that anything you type up in Microsoft Word belongs to them.
CZ,
Good to know folks are being sent this way. I still lurk a bit but been busy…
Will,
That info on WP and copyright is incorrect, you write it, it’s yours.
1000 a day is very reasonable. I have noticed that it is the personal melodrama sites, or the book author sites that seem to rule the niche.
I still get a few referrals from Suburban, and also from Craig Cavanaus’ old Keep it Simple Survival site even though they are no longer active.
With all the strange topics I cover, I rule the high school book report crowd! LOL I get a few on book reviews, but only one (Emergency) is in the top of the list.