Web site traffic.. good #s?

[Deleted member 4644]

How much traffic does a start-up web site have to have before you consider it impressive? I am asking for your "gut" reaction.

If you heard "We have 500 unique visitors a day" would you be impressed? How about 1000? 10,000? 50,000?

How about registered users? Would you be impressed by 1000? How about 5000?

 

[Sphexi]

I think it more depends on profitability. If you're making enough to cover costs, then you're doing alright. If you're horribly tanking and not seeing it get any better, then you're doing something wrong.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Ah, this is a good point. I was actually going to ask about revenue and profit, but I feel that such things depend a lot on what sort of site you run.... I was going for a more general feeling.

 

[Pastore]

What industry are we talking about?

 

[imported_LoKe]

If you've got your server/domain fees covered by the end of the month, you're in great shape. I haven't made a return off my site that's of notable value, especially since you need a minimum of $100 to get your first cheque from Google. My numbers aren't great, but for having little to no advertising, they could be worse.

For the month :

Reported period -- Month Apr 2006
Unique visitors -- 597
Number of visits -- 726
Pages -- 1810
Hits -- 6615
Bandwidth -- 385.56

Since it's been open :

Reported period -- 07 Mar 2006 - 23 Apr 2006
Unique visitors -- 951
Number of visits -- 1229
Pages -- 5052
Hits -- 15850
Bandwidth -- 569.13

 

[dartworth]

Stats from one our sites for March 2006...

Successful requests: 58,444,982
Average successful requests per day: 386,595
Successful requests for pages: 3,186,235
Average successful requests for pages per day: 21,075
Redirected requests: 1,516,950
Distinct files requested: 205,186
Distinct hosts served: 78,700
Data transferred: 481.00 gigabytes
Average data transferred per day: 3.18 gigabytes

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

ok, if we are playing who has the biggest e-penis, I will jump in

Mar 2006
Uniques - 104230
visits - 149912
pages - 805324
hits - 1750094
bandwidth - 11.69 GB

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

To answer your question, I would not really consider it significant until you were hitting 30k+ uniques/month per awstats.

 

[imported_LoKe]

What the christ? How are you guys getting so many hits? How are you advertising?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: LoKe
What the christ? How are you guys getting so many hits? How are you advertising?

Getting plugged on CNN.com, USAToday.com, ClarkHoward.com, NYTimes and AARP Magazine doesn't hurt

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: LoKe
What the christ? How are you guys getting so many hits? How are you advertising?

I'm not at all. What I do have is about 70,000 pages on my site, so even though maybe about half of them rank well (first page of SERPS), I can do well. I don't try to rank for any broad terms, I try to capture the two and three people that search for each term a day.

 

[Eos]

You should do something quasi legal on your website such as torrenting of radio shows, and then you'll strive for less and less hits and page views... :laugh:

 

[dartworth]

It is all about content. If you have and maintain great content, your site will last. It may start out slow, but you will be found.

Many sites have lots of fluff and "cool features". However, they don't last.

Of course there are tricks with search engines and other options which help people find your site too. However, that is for another thread

 

[Epic Fail]

55 million impressions/month

 

[tfinch2]

So far in 2006, tfinch.org has had 4213 unique visitors, which is about 37 a day.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Of course there are tricks with search engines and other options which help people find your site too. However, that is for another thread

Like? ^^;

 

[Reikon]

I've had 9273 unique visitors since Apr 7, when I started using awstats.

Of course, since my site isn't for profit, the amount of hits doesn't matter to me.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: dartworth
Of course there are tricks with search engines and other options which help people find your site too. However, that is for another thread

Like? ^^;

:roll:

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: dartworth
Of course there are tricks with search engines and other options which help people find your site too. However, that is for another thread

Like? ^^;

:roll:

:roll:

 

[vegetation]

Be careful when looking at 'unique visitors'. Often times this includes search engine and spam bots which can end up eating away at half the results.

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: dartworth
Of course there are tricks with search engines and other options which help people find your site too. However, that is for another thread

Like? ^^;

The information is out there...

If you want to be successful, you have to work at it. Nobody is just going to give you the answers....