Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:12 pm
Bonnie,
Thanks for asking! I love sharing statistics!
Before May 22 (the date that the Ellis Paul article was on the Wikipedia Main Page), the record number of 1-day unique visits to the website was 2554. On May 22 the record was broken: 2710. The overall activity on the website has been absolutely nuts. The average number of daily unique visits to the website January through April was 2069. That number increased to 2136 in May (the month of the Wiki Main Page). But things really started going nuts on June 5. The average daily visits from June 1 through 21 is 3343! We have had higher 1-day totals than ever before. It's simply astounding. Ellis had been wanting to break 3000 as a 1-day high for unique visits. The May 22 record (2710) was broken on June 5 - 2848. The next day (June 6) Ellis got his wish and we broke 3000 - resoundingly! - 3480! Since then we have been 3000+ every day except two....and even more shocking is that we've had five days over 4000! We hit a new 1-day high on June 12 - 4735. Now of course *I* want to break 5000! The only explanation for the increased activity that makes sense to me is that it's some kind of a residual effect from the Wikipedia article, but I don't really know for sure.
Really gratifying is that ~ 88% of the hits to the website every day (as opposed to unique visits) are direct requests to ellispaul.com or ellispaul.com/discussion. So, obviously, people have those two pages bookmarked. We're talking an average of 26,000 hits per day. Almost all the entry pages to the website are through the discussion board.
Also interesting is seeing how many hits are referrers from Wikipedia. About ten days ago I put links to Ellis' lyrics/website in several Wikipedia articles: John Lennon, Chris McCandless, River Phoenix, Galileo and Pat Tillman, and more recently the article for Into the Wild. In that short period of time there have been 110+ referrers from the John Lennon article, 70+ from Chris McCandless and 50 from Into the Wild (in just two days). The others have also generated some referrers. A very small % of traffic can be attributed to spammers - like maybe 1 or 2%. The other ~10% are legitimate hits from venue websites, festival websites, etc. that have links to ellispaul.com.
I'm actually still waiting to hear how/if sales at CD Freedom have increased.
KarenZ
Thanks for asking! I love sharing statistics!
Before May 22 (the date that the Ellis Paul article was on the Wikipedia Main Page), the record number of 1-day unique visits to the website was 2554. On May 22 the record was broken: 2710. The overall activity on the website has been absolutely nuts. The average number of daily unique visits to the website January through April was 2069. That number increased to 2136 in May (the month of the Wiki Main Page). But things really started going nuts on June 5. The average daily visits from June 1 through 21 is 3343! We have had higher 1-day totals than ever before. It's simply astounding. Ellis had been wanting to break 3000 as a 1-day high for unique visits. The May 22 record (2710) was broken on June 5 - 2848. The next day (June 6) Ellis got his wish and we broke 3000 - resoundingly! - 3480! Since then we have been 3000+ every day except two....and even more shocking is that we've had five days over 4000! We hit a new 1-day high on June 12 - 4735. Now of course *I* want to break 5000! The only explanation for the increased activity that makes sense to me is that it's some kind of a residual effect from the Wikipedia article, but I don't really know for sure.
Really gratifying is that ~ 88% of the hits to the website every day (as opposed to unique visits) are direct requests to ellispaul.com or ellispaul.com/discussion. So, obviously, people have those two pages bookmarked. We're talking an average of 26,000 hits per day. Almost all the entry pages to the website are through the discussion board.
Also interesting is seeing how many hits are referrers from Wikipedia. About ten days ago I put links to Ellis' lyrics/website in several Wikipedia articles: John Lennon, Chris McCandless, River Phoenix, Galileo and Pat Tillman, and more recently the article for Into the Wild. In that short period of time there have been 110+ referrers from the John Lennon article, 70+ from Chris McCandless and 50 from Into the Wild (in just two days). The others have also generated some referrers. A very small % of traffic can be attributed to spammers - like maybe 1 or 2%. The other ~10% are legitimate hits from venue websites, festival websites, etc. that have links to ellispaul.com.
I'm actually still waiting to hear how/if sales at CD Freedom have increased.
KarenZ