Following on from my 2009 web statistics, below is a summary of what traffic the site took in 2009.
In 2009 the site took 106,930 visitors over the entire year which resulted in 136,525 pageviews. During 2010, the site generated 97,509 visits and 132,068 pageviews. That figure is down from my two biggest years of approximately 145,000 and 135,000 during 2007 and 2008 when I was posting less frequently but the posts were of a more technical nature and also pop culture related such as Australian Idol. It’ll come as no surprise that from a traffic driving potential, a lot fewer people are interested in reading about my personal ramblings compared to technical style posts that I used to post.
During 2008 and 2009, I wrote a couple of posts each year that grabbed a moderate amount of traffic and were clear standouts with respect to the number of pageviews. During 2010, none of my posts really caught the attention of the internet; which per above can be attributed to the topics that I’m writing about.
The traffic breakdown by source shows a considerable decrease in the reliance of search engines, with their traffic percentage falling from around 85% in 2008-2009 down to only 74% in 2010. Within the search engine space, Google are completely dominating with 94% of the search engine traffic. During 2009, Yahoo! were the first non-Google search engine with about 2.5% & Microsoft Bing was the new kid on the block. Fast forward a year and the tides have turned with Bing now accounting for 2.6% and Yahoo! 2.4% of the search engine traffic.
The most popular posts for the year were nearly identical to 2009, with four of five remaining and one newcomer:
- Disable Options In A Select Dropdown Element
- Select Option Disabled & The JavaScript Solution
- Oracle RETURNING Clause
- ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate <x> bytes
- Making HP Laserjet Printers Work In Windows Vista
Removing those posts from the top of the list since they clearly dominate:
- ORA-06552: PL/SQL: Compilation Unit Analysis Terminated
- HP Laserjet & Windows Vista Driver Support
- Oracle Dynamic SQL Using The DECODE Function
- ASP Error ‘ASP 0104: 80004005?
- State of Origin 2006
It is probably worth noting that nine out of ten of the highest traffic web pages on my site are not about anything to do with myself or our family but are in fact to do with helping others. This makes a lot of sense, especially when you see the meteoric traffic growth question and answer sites Stack Overflow and Quora have seen in the last two years.
That being said, still nothing from 2010 were showing up in the list. Isolating the posts written in 2010 and the landscape is vastly different:
- Doodle 4 Google Winner On Display
- 4 Car Motor Vehicle Accident
- Medibank International Sydney Winner
- Ford Falcon XR6
- Mantra Group Wins Circle on Cavill Trade Mark Court Case
Onward and upward for 2011!