Comments on: Blog Stats – Page Views

By: fornls

fornls — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:24:24 +0000

After reading this post and many comments, I had learned a lot of useful things today. So there are types of visitors that come to your blog depending on whether they come from search engines, other sites, etc. Also depending on whether they are interested in reading lot of material, or reading only precisely what they are looking for.

This results in different statistics. I am in a little confusion with lot of useful information learnt quickly. But I will think through this and make good strategy.

One conclusion that I could make and others did not is that the stat of 1.7 page read per visitor implies that no matter how many pages you have on your blog, per visitor you will get only this much of traffic. Where as when you have a lot of pages, it does seem to tell that the visitor count may increase. This will also increase if the per visitor count is also high. This is not a completely accurate conclusion. But I am wondering more blog posts can mean more page views on the overall blog.

Moreover the ideas on comments, like self-linking through related articles, writing series’ of posts on particular topics are really encouraging in that it keeps our focus on long term posting and also long term results.

Thanks,
-fornls
India.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:44:40 +0000

I tend to blog concisely making my point with beautiful pictures and very few words. This allows readers to read multiple articles quickly. They can then jump to the links or thumbnail the pci if they want to learn more. To me this style makes the most sense and is really one of the main advantages of a blog versus a traditional website. This I think is why blogs are so popular. I started ProfessionalWatches.com in 2003 as a static website and my traffic grew slowly. Since I converted my site to a Movable Type website in March of 2006 my traffic has more than tripled and continues to grow significantly every month. I am now on pace to hit 75,000 page views a month by the end of October. I expect to see 150,000 page views per month in the next 6 months. This would put my traffic above almost all wristwatch websites on the web. My Adsense profits continue to grow along with the site traffic.

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如何提高Blog页面访问 - Oneandhalf Computing Techno-junkies — Sun, 28 May 2006 22:01:17 +0000

[...] Yesterday my brief study into page view statisticsrevealed that the average blog reader views around 1.7 pages every time they visit a blog. [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:59:29 +0000

Darren,

Is ProBlogger the same as the others? About 1.7 page views per user?

Brandon

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:29:45 +0000

I missed this post earlier when it was “fresh”.. but this is one of the stats that we’re going to be tracking (via alexa) on blognetworklist – hopefully by the time that the weekend is out we’ll have this up as a measurement.

Matt

By: Technosailor » Leadership in Blogging

Technosailor » Leadership in Blogging — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:06:15 +0000

[...] What does this have to do with blogging, you might ask? It has everything to do with the ongoing self-congratulatory, self-propping egotistical maneuvering that is going on in the blogosphere. First it was the pajama orgy, then it was the crazy ongoing debate about “the ecosystem” which ranks blogs based on the number of folks who have linked to them and seemingly continues to be exploited for the benefit of the egos. Darren points out evidence that links don’t mean a thing if no one is reading (if I can make that logical conclusion). Now it’s the “Weblog Awards”, which seems to be another opportunity to pat the same old people on the back – the old boys club. Example, Rob (who is a self-proclaimed NON-A-lister) posts about the Weblog awards and how “it’s a new day…and you can vote again”. Granted, I believe Rob when he says it’s all for fun. But if you go to each of the blogs nominated for an award, they are all pushing and promoting themselves like they are running for a political office. [...]

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By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:03:10 +0000

I’m not sure of the exact average, but I see a number of visitors to one of my blogs visiting between 4-6 pages of content – which of course I’m very happy about. Others are more modest, 1-3 views per visitor.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:33:44 +0000

Most of my readers subscribe via RSS Readers and I offer them my full feed.

If I ever want to leave a comment on Jason’s inc blog it will require 5 page views, but I only saw one post!

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:51:25 +0000

After I made the comment yesterday I spent sme more time thinking about it and as per Jason’s comment above it comes down to how often you return to read that one page. I don’t read many blogs — in fact problogger is just about the only one I read… but as I don’t use RSS, I tend to check back through the day to see if anything interesting had popped up — if interesting I’ll read it (so that’s two views) if not I close the window (1 view). Now depending on my procrastination level on any given day, I may check back a dozen times (or more) through the day… so while it’s one pageview per visit, when it’s twelve visits it ain’t so bad… There you go Darren, now you know why you’re getting those hits from Cambodia in your logs ;-)

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:01:53 +0000

The reason we have a low pages per visit is because there are 20 stories that all have at least one link out. So, our goal is to send people to other good stuff.

If you go to Yahoo or NYTimes you’ll find that there are not links outside of their network for a couple of pages.

Also, we don’t do a lot of “continued…” or multipage stories like some blogs and CNET does. To read a story at CNET you have to hit next page five times. To read one on engadget you have to do one click.

So, some folks goose their page views and make their users suffer…. we take the approach of if you treat the users well and send them to amazing stuff they will come back.

We don’t want to be some roach motel…. :-)

now, one stat you should consider is visits per month and per day. We have *many* folks who come back to our 2-5 x a day!

So, the pattern is I check in on Autoblog, TVSquad or Engadget when I get to work, at lunch, at the end of the day, and when I get home… that is seriously how some folks do it.

By: Eoghann Irving

Eoghann Irving — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:54:34 +0000

Hmm is it actually bad to have a low figure on pages per visit? Think about it, don’t you want your visitors click on your adverts? If they stay and read your entire site, you’re not making any money.

While I don’t advocate designing sites so unappealing that everyone leaves, I also think it’s not such a great idea to make people want to stay and read forever.

Also there’s a difference between returning visitors and people who read lots of pages on a single visit. I’d rather have returning visitors.

By: FMF

FMF — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:43:31 +0000

A strategy I use to increase page views is to do “series” posts such as these:

http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2005/05/the_best_financ.html

http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2005/10/save_big_on_a_t.html

http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2005/11/ten_ways_to_pro.html

Then to make the most of them, I enter them in blog carnivals with the outcome being new people come to the site and review more than just one page. This gives them a better taste of the blog and (hopefully) helps them decide they like Free Money Finance while also increasing page views (I’m currently at 2.3 per visitor).

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:59:29 +0000

Interesting post, I asked a friend of mine who runs an adult blog and his average is 7.4 pages, I think this shows its all about the content !. My own view is it depends a little on the style of the blog too, for example a celebrity gossip blog is not going to be read too deep. If i use my own experiance with progblogger, when i first found the site i read alot of the content here, but of course now i just check in to see what Darren has posted on becuase its interesting.This brings the average down unless you have lots of unique visitors. Perhaps the key for us all is to figure out how we can get our returning visitors to stick around, however from another point it could be argued that if they viewed 2 pages and then clicked an advertiser because of the article we should be happy ?

By: Tom Hanna - Financial Options

Tom Hanna - Financial Options — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:25:04 +0000

I’ve seen varying numbers from 1 to about 5. With nonblog sites I’ve seen almost exactly the same range. The note regarding search engines directing people to exactly the right page on your site, blog or nonblog, I think is key. On the other hand, the more targeted that traffic is the more they seem to be clicking off the site by clicking on ads. Would I rather have 1,000 visitors visit ten pages at my site or 1,000 visitors visit only one page because they leave via an ad? I’m honestly torn – after all I want the whole world to know and love my incredible writing.

By: jesse

jesse — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:08:38 +0000

~1.6 per visitor

By: jim

jim — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:42:47 +0000

William,
I do the same thing except I cut it off after the first paragraph and the reason I do this is to try to keep the front page as clutter-free as possible, showing a whole bunch of posts and allowing the reader to drill down if they really want to read more. It makes the front page much faster to load.

By: Roger Johansson

Roger Johansson — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:22:40 +0000

3.1 pageviews per visit here.

@William Cox: Another reason for only posting excerpts on the front page is to make it quicker for visitors to find out what the last few posts are about. I think that’s a usability enhancement compared to the endlessly scrolling front pages everybody had a couple of years ago.

By: William Cox

William Cox — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:39:26 +0000

In response to Blaine Moore’s (first) post, I have to say that only posting a little bit to your front page is an extremely aggravating thing to me. It’s like you’re blatantly trying to double your pageviews. At least, that’s how I perceive it. What do other think?

It seems to me that if folks want to read more, they will, without you having to force them to click more than they should.

By: Rich Miller

Rich Miller — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:08:56 +0000

There’s a reason for this “low” number, and it’s not bad news at all. Blog readers scan a blog’s news through their RSS reader, rather than the web site home page. When they see a story they like, they visit it directly, rather than navigating around the site. There’s less wandering around looking for information, because folks are finding it without clicking around. This is exactly the value proposition of RSS and its use in blogs and the “Web 2.0″ economy – it makes it easier for readers to find specialized news, and monitor their favorite news sources.

This poses a challenge with regards to advertising support. RSS advertising options are starting to improve, but have a long way to go before bloggers can fully realize the profit potential of these new web use patterns.

While 1.7 page views per visit sounds low, I think it reflects changing traffic practices will soon spread beyond the blogosphere as RSS becomes more widely used.