Another quarter has gone and it is time for my Google Analytics Traffic report for Q4 2011. If you missed my report for Q3 2011 you can see it here: Google Analytics stats report for Q3
My Google Analytics Traffic for Q4
Traffic types:
For the fourth quarter of 2011 my traffic type looked like this:
- Search engines: 66,68%
- Referring Sites: 16,41%
- Direct Traffic: 13,57%
- Other: 3,34%
Search Engines:
- Google: 91,89%
- Bing 4,74%
- Yahoo 1,94%
The rest of the Search Engines are all under 1 percent of traffic.
Top 5 Referring Sites:
- stumbleupon.com
- techworkdk.tumblr.com
- geeks4share.com
- arrastheme.com
- websitebabble.com
When it comes to referring sites techworkdk.tumblr.com (My other blog at Tumblr.com), geeks4share.com and websitebabble.com are all new in my top 5 of Referring Sites. Twitter.com has dropped to nr. 6 and plus.google.com is only in spot 13. I started my Tumblr blog back in October and it has been able to drive a lot of traffic to my main blog. I did not join the websitebabble.com before December, so it is pretty impressive that it is already in my top 5. www.websitebabble.com is a forum owned by the great Lisa Irby that you might know from 2 Create a Website It is a great place to meet other bloggers and discuss blogging tips and tools. I can highly recommend this forum if you would like to meet other bloggers.
Top 10 visitors by Country:
1. United States
2. Denmark
3. United Kingdom
4. India
5. Australia
6. Canada
7. Philippines
8. Netherlands
9. Finland
10. Germany
My top 10 Country is the exact same as in Q3, but the Philippines have jumped to number 7 and United States are still at the top position. My blog has had visits from 138 different countries and that is something I am pretty happy about.
Conclusion
After I have analyzed all the numbers of the fourth quarter I can conclude that my blog is still improving and moving in the right direction. The biggest improvement I have had is for sure with Organic Search result for Google. If I compare Q3 with Q4 I have almost doubled that traffic from Google. Another thing I have been able to achieve is to find new sites that have been able to drive traffic to my blog. All in all, I am very happy with my last quarter of 2011 and hope that I can keep on improving in 2012.
Now it is your turn. How was your traffic for the end of 2011? Did you made any new discovery in traffic generation? Please drop me a comment below.
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I noticed you don’t disclose actual unique visit metrics for your quarterly stats, any reason why?
Hi Justin
I have made 4 of these Google Analytics reports and shared the same type of information each time. When I made my first report I did not have much traffic to show. I can tell you that I had 9,411 Unique Visitors in Q4 of 2011.
I also keep a goal for my website traffic statistic and posting Google analytics status each month.
That helps me to remind each month that I should reach to mu goal.
Traffic to your blog is good,but keep a goal in mind so that you can get more.
All the best for next traffic statistic.:D
Cool, that is a decent metric, I wish I could get my smaller blogs to reach that number.
I wish I could get my smaller blogs to reach that number.
You did very hard work and the result is in front of us..Its very nice that you shared your experience with us.
Thank you
That’s nice Thomas. It’s no wonder you have a decent amount of visitors since your posts are interesting. You gave me an idea in creating a Tumblr account. Thanks!
Hi Olan
Thank you for your kind words. I think it has been great for me to create a Tumblr blog in addition to this blog. A blog on Tumblr does not require as much work as a normal blog so that is great I think. I use it for small, funny, fast posts that do not really fit on this blog and I also use it to build backlinks and traffic to this blog. I would love to follow you there if you are going to create one of your own.
My blog is inconsistently going up and down in traffic through the different months of the year, but i think it has to do with my business. I am noticing a lot more traffic from Google ever since they gave me sitelinks, though.
Hi Chris
I have had a pretty steady increase in traffic month after month, but at some point that would properly be hard to keep on moving.
Great job and thanks for the look inside your site.
I’ll have to checkout your tumblr and see how your using it for traffic back. I have one but don’t really use it.
I need to get more active at website babble so I can post links and have a signature.
Hi Jason
I am following you back on Tumblr now 🙂 I really like Website Babble. It is a great place to ask your questions about blogging, WordPress and AdSense e.g.
About to create a Tumblr blog now. Hope to get tips from you. Will also create an account with Website Babble.
Hey Thomas,
I am so sorry I haven’t been for such a long time! I did try understanding my Google analytics, but somehow I don’t do it as regularly. You just reminded me that I have to get back to it! 🙂
Hi Hajra
Welcome back 🙂
I am glad I can help. I really believe that we can learn a lot about our blog by analyzing our Google Analytics stats.
Excellent job and thanks for the look within your website.
I’ll have to check out your tumblr and see how your using it for visitors again. I have one but do not really use it.
I need to get more effective at web page babble so I can publish hyperlinks and have a trademark.
Regarding Tumblr strategi for link building my good friend Ana Hoffman wrote this post about it: http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/tumblr-link-building/
i remember the last time i came here i was looking at the Q2 analysis. Not that i don’t like to visit your blog but i left blogging for a while and got busy with other things.
Anyway what i wanted to point out was that at that time a lot of your visitors were from referring sites. And now most of them are from search engines. Looks like you left stumbling a bit or your search traffic increased tremendously.
Good to see you progress. Keep rocking:D
Thanks Karan
I have had a big increase in Search engines since then. I think that is the main reason. My blog was promoted to a PageRank 3 blog. That gave a big boost in organic traffic.
You are getting quite a lot of traffic from search engines. Nice tip about creating a Tumblr blog. Will create one soon.
Thanks. Good luck with the Tumblr blog.
Great for you! This is encouraging for us to increase our ranks too.
Thank you Lyka
Its really healthy to see a 16% referral traffic as well. And of course, the organic traffic is excellent. The blog is definitely on the right way forward.
I am pretty happy with my stats too, but there is always something that can improve 🙂
Hi Thomas,
first, i`m glad to find a site from Europe. 😉
I find your post very interesting. It`s important for business to know the traffic and where it comes from.
Since Jan., i have my own domain, and i use google analytics. it`s a great plugin for all of us.
Thanks a lot for sharing your informations.
with best wishes from Germany.
Sandy 🙂
have a nice weekend.
Hi Sandy
Always nice to meet other bloggers from Europe. Glad you liked my post.
That’s great Thomas! You have a decent amount of traffic and you gave me a nice idea to work on arrastheme.
Very good stats. I hope you are converting well from all the traffic coming in from Google. I have noticed that my Twitter traffic has decreased and is out of my top ten referring sources.
Hi Dan
I have always had a hard time to get the most out of Twitter when it comes to direct traffic. However I think that I get a lot of indirect traffic from connecting with people on Twitter.
well done, your haard work paid off!! I wish I could get my smaller blogs to reach that number, maybe in time!
With time and hard work everything is possible also for you Julie.
Nice stats you got there. My blog is also having positive stats lately and i am hoping to make it better. More success to your blog.
Thank you Farrell
Interesting stats. Looks like your SEO is kicking butt. What’s your plan for google+?
Hi Jacko
I am pretty happy with my SEO work. I am not sure what to think about Google+ yet, but I will keep on sharing stuff there. I do get some traffic from there once in a while.
great job!
Inspiring. 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Nice to see that your blog is moving in the right direction Thomas. I didn’t think Tumblr would be a good traffic source. good luck for the new year.
Hi Adeline
I am very happy about my progress too. Tumblr has turned out to be a good traffic source for me so far and if you think about it Tumblr has a good PageRank and is perfect for self-promotion 🙂
thanks for sharing! It’s always interesting to see other’s growth and how they are taking their blog to the next level. Good luck for 2012.
Thank you Liz.
Hi
Nice information about the Google analytics now all over the glob internet become the part of the life every person.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thank you for your valuable information about google analystics. I’m also using this tools and have good output on tipsfortechno.com
Regards
Nickty
Wow, Go stumbleupon!
Hi Phil
Yep, when it comes to generating traffic StumbleUpon is great. Maybe not that good for my bounce rate, but I can live with that.
Tomas, how does that referral traffic work against your seo traffic. I mean percent comparison, if your referral traffic is more, you might want to start working on SEO traffic.
I am very happy with my Organic Vs Referring traffic. I think my SEO is working very well.
Search engines: 66,68%
Referring Sites: 16,41%
The post is having a nice infography about the google analytics.
thats really nice stats, keep it up. Hope you convert well.
Thank you Fazal.
Google Analytics is rallly good especially that is live now. thanks
The traffic of one of my websites is up and up in the last months. But because I built it to make money from selling it I must improve the direct traffic. At the moment I have 98% traffic from search engines.
Hi Audrey
98% from Search Enginges might be a bit high. You might need to change the way you do thinks to get more direct and referring traffic. Good luck.
True Thomas, though having a high percentage of search engines traffic is a good thing. Thanks for the reply:)
Very Impressive percentage of traffic through google search engines here tom. Organic searches compared to adwords in my opinion are more important to achieve as to me they seem abit more reassuring then advertising. People seem to trust organic sites more then adwords.
I think in 2012, you will increase your pageviews more because you provide useful posts for the blog visitors. I follow you as well.
I have created lots of Analytics accounts for all of my websites so I think its pretty true that it increases page views and good site visitors. Now I loved it. Thanks!
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There are some very nice statistics. Congratulations and i am sure you can get even better! Always aim for improvement!