It is time for my last Google Traffic Report of 2015. I can believe that 2015 is already gone and 2016 is here. As always when a quarter of the year has ended I take a look back on my blog traffic to see how it went and what I can do better in the new quarter.
Traffic Types
- Search Engines: 43.12%
- Direct traffic: 35.57%
- Social traffic: 11.12%
- Referring Sites: 10.11%
My share of traffic coming from Search Engines has dropped a couple of percent since last report, but not something to worry about just now. My overall traffic is still steady.
Organic traffic (Search Engines Only)
- Google: 83.86%
- Bing: 10.97%
- Yahoo: 3.03%
- Ask: 0.82%
- Baidu: 0.84%
My traffic from Google has dropped about 5% and Bing is up about 3%. Interesting to see if that is a trend that will continue over the months to come. I still don’t have much faith in Bing as a real contender for Google’s Search Engine.
Top 5 Referring Sites
- Techtutorials.net
- Lifehacker.com
- The-area51.com
- Google.fr
- Tech.alltop.com
I still see a lot of referring spam in my referring statistics, but I have cleaned out the spam this time to get a more realistic view on where my “real” referring traffic comes from. Techtutorials.net is still my number one.
Top 10 visitors by Country
- Denmark
- United States
- India
- United Kingdom
- Russia
- Germany
- Australia
- Canada
- Pakistan
- Netherlands
Denmark and United States switch place and Netherlands is new on the list, but other than that my Top 10 Visitors by Country is exactly the same than in Q3 2015.
Key Numbers of Q4 2015
- Number of Visits to my blog: 7357 visits Vs 7560 visits in my Q3 2015 report (-2.69%)
- My Bounce Rate is: 71.96%
Conclusion of my Traffic Report
My overall conclusion on this report must be that Q4 is pretty much the same as Q3 when it comes to traffic. I had a little drop in overall traffic and my traffic from Search Engines was also dropping a bit. Nothing to be alarmed about at all, but of cause, I always look for improvements. However, my bounce Rate dropped a bit too which is good. How did your 2015 end when it comes to traffic generation to your blog? Please drop me a comment below.
Great stats for the last quarter Thomas, it’s hard to think that 2015 has been and gone already! Here’s wishing you the best in 2016 and an increase in your visitor stats 😉
Thank you Karen. I think it will take me a couple of weeks to get used to write 2016 instead of 2015 🙂
I’ve been putting 2015 on things I’ve been writing out the last couple of days lol
Hi Thomas,
Wow great stats. Next time do keep a Analytics screenshot in the post. I wish you great success in 2016.
Hi
Thanks for the idea of some screenshots in future posts.
Happy 2015 and welcome to 2016. How are you getting referrals from Lifehacker.com ? Are you guest posting or is it from comments?
Thank you Jason.
I wrote a post that Lifehacker liked so much that the shared it on their site with a link back to my blog. That was so awesome and gave me a lot of traffic for a couple of weeks. It was this post:
https://techthatworks.net/windows-8/get-free-online-it-training-with-microsoft-academy
wow…You just built a good trust with lifehacker… that site has good amount of traffic:)
Hi Thomas,
This is great piece of work. It simply illustrates your hard work and blogging ability.
Your final quarter stats are just awesome and it will encourage all new bloggers.
Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks Thyrone
top referring sites lifehacker.com
Awwsome.
Yep, that is pretty cool 🙂
It is good to see that you have a steady flow of natural traffic, I’d like to get there too. I see that you care about traffic (of course) but do you monitor your conversion rate as well? I’m assuming that I will start with a CR of 1% and hope to get it up to 5% in the long term.
Have you been able to successfully increase your CR over the years?
Thanks Stefan
No, I don’t really use much time on Goals and CR in Google Analytics.
Lifehacker is on 4th position my list. giving great traffic. Love it.
Traffic from Livehacker is always nice to see in your stats 🙂
how you got that traffic from Referring Sites can you please explain me something about this …
Hi
It takes a lot of work, but I am active in different technology forums and communities that lets me link back to this blog. I also post some of my posts on websites like Blog Engage and places like that.