Written on September 23rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm by Darren Rowse

How Many Unique Visitors Does Your Biggest Blog Get Per Day? POLL

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Just posted a new Poll in the sidebar:

How Many Unique Visitors Does Your Biggest Blog Get Per Day?

RSS Subscribers – Click Here to Vote.

Note – I’m asking for Unique Visitors – not ‘hits’ or ‘page views’. Most statistics packages will give you this information.

Those of you with more than one blog – just do your biggest one.

Looking forward to seeing the results.

How Many Unique Visitors Does Your Biggest Blog Get Per Day?
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  • I liked to see what kind of blogs get 20001+ unique hits a day.

  • Interesting idea for a poll. Unfortunately, different stat packages treat different types of visitors in very different ways, so this is kind of an apples an oranges thing. For example, StatCounter registers bots as visitors whereas SiteMeter does not. Thus, SiteMeter’s number are consistently well below those of StatCounter.

  • I get around 1000 uniques on most days :-)

  • 101-250 here, I’m hoping to be a large blog in time but as of right now I guess I have to just keep on truckin.

  • My biggest blog is about 3 months old and gets an average of 70+ unique visitors daily. But there were a few days where I get sudden spikes in traffic that reached up to 1k+ unique visitors.

    Someone voted 20001+ unique hits a day, I wonder whose blog it is.

  • excellent poll question

  • Darren, a small technical issue. When I click on “view results” from out of the RSS-Feed, I will be redirected to the feed of some “True Tiger Recordings”!?

    Maybe there´s something wrong with Feedburner and polls!?

  • @Brett: Though I didn’t include it in my answer, as it’s not my own blog, Tech Digest (which I write for) is starting to approach 20,000 uniques (with page impressions at mid-20k), and the large US-based tech sites get a LOT more.

  • not more than 25:(

  • fivecentnickel – it’s no scientific poll – however it’s the best we can do unless we convert all ProBlogger readers to the one metrics package. Hopefully it’ll give us a relative idea of how everyone is going.

    Marco – weird. Not sure what the problem is there!

  • The 20001+ is my blog about underwater basket weaving. No joke heh.

  • about 200 :)

  • Usually around 6000 to 9000…

    My record was 90000 in a single day :)

  • I got just under 2500 when the Threshers 40% wine off voucher went viral and appeared on the National News. I had blogged about it a week before after picking it up from Gaping Void.

  • about 200 uniques – depends on the weekday.

  • I’m hovering around 17k uniques on average…

  • Lately, I usually get around 1000 per day. But there was a day of 20k when got mentioned on a large site.

  • I just started my blog so its fairly new so at the moment, its between 0-100 but as time progresses, I am sure more unique visitors will come :)

  • I would love some more readers. But ten a day is better than none.

    My motto is: better one bird in your hand than no hand at all.

    Wouldn’t you agree?

  • Hi Darren

    I think people should ensure they are not quoting stats from AWstats, because it counts both uniques and pageviews totally differently to things like Google Analytics.

  • My oldest blogs get over a 1000 visitors a day.

  • Less than 100.. hopefully a lot more one day.

  • My blog’s been going for well over a year now, and I’m up to about 20-30 visitors a day on average. I’d had some spikes from a couple of good stumbles, but it hasn’t seemed to stick.

    Sephyroth

  • Average is 30 – 50 per day for me, except for that one week in June when Digg and StumbleUpon sent upwards of 500 – 1000 per day.

    Funny, though, even with the page impressions, I didn’t make a penny from Adsense.

  • My StatCounter report says that I had an average of 100 (before I joined SU and stumbled 2 of my own posts) and an average of 200 after SU.

    Aww.. That’s embarrassing, LOL.

  • the visitor list is small, but it is definitely increasing too, which is a good news for me.

  • oh MY god!! Sombody got 20000+ hits

  • Blog gets 0-100 visitors, but thankfully rest of the site (mainly photo albums) brings the average number of unique visitors per day (based on google analytics) upto 100-250 range with occasional peaks to 251-500 range. Not enough to make any real profit from site.

  • I thought I was getting about 30+ unique visitors a day on my biggest blog when I was using Webalizer. Then I started using Statcounter which dropped me to 20 on a good day. I don’t want to know about Sitemeter!! In any case I fit comfortably into the 0-100 either way at the moment.

  • I get about 200-300 unique readers per day to my site, but I have almost that many that read through email subscription and then another 100 that read through full feed. So how do you count that? I have also been pretty confused about how to get accurate stats. Even google stats and sitemeter seem low compared to when I just count the actual IPs that came to the site minus bots.

  • not more than 5 :(
    my site just 4 days old

  • I started last month and I seem to get about 100 – 120 a day but I can get it to pop up to 300 at times with strategic posting. I am trying my first contest for October and some supporting advertising.

    RobG

  • I voted for 1001-2500; that’s how many visitors my Fable blog receives.

    Steve

  • I often wonder how much the unique visitor stat really means these days when many blogs (this one included) have many more people reading via RSS than actually visiting the site. You can have 5,000 unique visitors and 25,000 more reading via RSS…

  • My blog is already six weeks old and it still hasn’t passed 100 per day. I’m sad.

  • My traffic patterns are why I really appreciated Seth Godin’s post on Mean vs. Median. This week was a great example where for several days it was really slow until I posted a memo for my non-TV watching readers about a news story I thought they would love and I got seriously slammed. I did not see that coming and at first thought I had gotten hijacked. And I am aware that most here would have considered that a slow day too. I have to discipline myself to not get caught up in the comparison game.

  • I think mine’s only getting hits from me so far, but it’s less than a week old, and I want to have some decent content there before I really start promoting it.

    Hopefully if there’s a similar poll in six month’s time, I’ll be able to give a different answer.

  • Around 500 per day isn’t too bad for a 1.5 month old blog?? Right?

  • I currently average about 20 unique visitors per day.

    However, I have just recently uppped the ante on the quality of my posts and re-directed the focus of my blog. Through that, I have seen a climb in my traffic – including getting one of my posts Stumbled and seeing 74+ unique visitors though that. :-D

    But further more, I am currently re-designing my blog and I shall be launching a huge campaign for my blog when I get that finished.
    I am quite excited about that.

  • It really depend upon your stats application. Google Analytics shows 8000 uniques for me, however, Mint shows just 6500+

  • not sure, but I guess it should be more than one! :D

  • It seems like my blog is above average. If I could just find some sponsors :(

  • Around 50-70 a day for me. Sometimes more, sometimes less (like weekends).

  • Mine’s about 100-150. I’m glad to know that is about average.

    @pelf – is it considered acceptable to stumble your own posts?

  • I am in the 100-150 range as well. Seems to be the average

  • Well, I get more than 250 per day but not much so I would like to see those getting 20001+

  • I am getting about 2,500 to 3,000 unique visitors a day on average, its not bad, but it is pretty small traffic within my niche.

    Mind you my blog has only been going for four months, so I suppose its pretty good for a new Tech blog.

  • I’m siting on the line right now getting between 90-110 views a day, slowly moving up from the 5-10 I was getting a month ago.

  • More than the 20,000 bracket. The record was about 125,000 one day.

  • Even though some stat programs count bots differently, as some people pointed out, it should not make that much of a difference in UNIQUE page views per day (maybe like an extra 20 or so). I found it kind of interesting to see where all the readers rank. I personally did not think that 1000-2500 was much to talk about, but it looks like it is above average.

  • My blog just started getting 20 uniques per day. It was plugging along at 3 per day when BlogRush and some timely keyword combinations added 17+ uniques per day. Looking to set a goal of 40+ uniques per day right now.

  • I just broke the 200 unique barrier the other day after my second month of blogging. Hopefully the hits come on coming. Surprised to see so many in the 1-100 category though.

  • About 30 on some days. The average is probably closer to 25. Unfortunately, things have been rather static as well.

  • I have a fashion blog that gets around 16K a month. Much of the success has been around targeting popular keywords, talking about hot topics (no, not celebrities! Imagine that!), and networking with established fashion bloggers.

  • Wow, there are some heavy hitters reading ProBlogger! My blog is getting between 100-150 at the moment, but it is down from a month ago when I was averaging 200 a day. :( Not sure what went wrong there, but I´m going back over the 31 Days to a Better Blog series to improve it and hopefully boost my readers.

    Nice to know that the majority of us are under 500. Does anyone know how true it is that you need 500 unique visitors a day to earn money with a blog?

  • So darren, We gave our numbers. What about yours?

  • Justin – i was the first to vote ;-)

    My biggest blogs would comfortably fit in the top category above if I’m looking at server side stats.

  • Not surprised. Most blogs receive fewer than 100 hits daily. At least I’m not alone :)

  • Hi Darren,

    I usually get between 500 to 1000 per day. I’ve hit 6000-8000 when my posts have been picked up by lifehacker. The stat packages do vary quite a bit, but I like Google Analytics the best.

    John

  • Mind you my blog has only been going for four months, so I suppose its pretty good for a new Tech blog.

  • I have only had my blog for 4 days, Here is how many visitors I have had:
    Thursday 17
    Friday 2
    Saturday 0
    Sunday 0

    Not very many visitors yet, hopefully I get those numbers up soon. Interesting though that I had 2 visitors first day from an ask.com search. I would not have thought a search engine would pick up a new blog that quick. I was not near the first page either, those visitors really dug through the search pages to find me.

    Brando

  • 200 to 250 a day…which I suppose isn’t bad for a homeschooling, mommy blog. : )

  • Do you all find that ‘uniques’ = casual users and that ‘page views’ = interested users? I find if I write something compelling, my uniques might bump up just a bit, but that my page views go up dramatically, as interested readers click around my site…
    NCN

  • I tried to visit and/or reply to as many blogs with low uniques in this post as I could. I just started a little over 2 weeks ago so I feel your pain!

    As for me, I’m getting about 200 visitors per day this week.

  • @SingForHim: I do no know whether it is acceptable to stumble our own posts, but I stumbled two of my posts because I was new to SU, and didn’t know what to do next. So I experimented with it. I haven’t stumbled upon any of my other posts, except those initial two.

  • My site is about 6 mos old. I get average 30 a day. If I Stumble something it might go to 200 for the day, better than DIGG.

  • Let me just check Google Analytics…
    ok, 86 Absolute Visitors… so that’s not counting my visits.
    Not bad, considering I’ve just started, eh?
    I am also #1 in google for “Pixl Design” but hey, that’s to be expected, no? It is the name of my site.

    Anyways, Most of the sites mentioned just got another Unique return visitor, good luck all of you!

  • My biggest blog gets between 50 and 70 uniques a day, but hasn’t been updated since April. I have just started a new blog last week that I hope will go somewhere, but currently is getting about 10 per day. My personal blog gets around 20 – 30, but that’s mainly because I don’t care about traffic on it.

  • Over the past 30 days I’ve averaged 575 uniques a day. Over the past 8 days I’ve averaged 935 so it’s growing. Slowly

  • I get around 200 uniques a day :) 250-300 when I publish something new ;)

  • Wow, impressive. At this moment, >1000 is already a number I can not even imagine for my niche topic of startup ideas and operational tips…. I think quality is important as well. I am curious what is the general statistics of the bounce rates.

  • I am so lucky, this site is still very new, I never promote it because I am so lazy and tired. However, I always try to keep it up to date. I am so lucky because I can get 500 visitors after 2 weeks I’ve launched this site.

  • I get more than 4000+ in my blog and few visitors in my site infiya.com

  • I just launch my own dot com with web 2.0 theme 2 weeks ago, so i got about 60-100 visitors a day. Do you all think its reasonable progress? Or anyway can improve my blog traffic fast?

  • whoa..
    Awesome for you all..
    My blog only get around 10-20 unique visitor per/day…
    Maybe I must improve my language first..

  • Normally I get around 1000 to 2000 unique visitors a day, on bad days it can go down to 800.

    I found interesting that the best days are usually wednesday, friday and saturday.

  • My blog Channing Tatum Unwrapped is the official site for actor Channing Tatum and I get 1000 – 2500 visitors each day from around the world. I started the blog January 1st of this year as a fan site and it became in August.

  • Correction: I started the blog Channing Tatum Unwrapped January 1st of this year as a fan site and it became the actor’s OFFICIAL site in August. My high traffic days are Sundays and Mondays and Fridays are my lowest traffic days, but I always get at least 1000 visitors. The average visitors per day will continue to grow as his popularity increases and more of his movies come out.

  • My personal blog is now surpassing my other niche sites …. more people are interested in reading the true real life stuff with no sales swing to it. I`m sittting on about 500 – 600 uniques a day and steadily growing …. helps now that i`m posting every day too and feedburner is a godsend for increasing traffic.

  • My jokes blog receives in the 101-250 range.

    I would be nice if we could see a percentage next to each result.

  • over 250 but it cost me a few bucks

  • My blog gets about 200 uniques. Not bad, but I hope I can add another 0 very soon.

  • Thank you, Darren, for this poll. Although I would love to see all of us succeed, it does feel good to know that I’m not alone.

  • Great poll! For those wondering who’s in the 20001+ category… I’m one of them. :)

  • Mmmm, I’ve been blogging since July and steadily growing but still under 20 a day on average.

    Feel free to visit ;)

  • It’s about 2 months old and getting ~40 or so per day.
    I’ve spiked to about 20k on 2 days thanks to digg

  • I have noticed that when my content is good though that number has doubles and even quadruppled. Those days are always exciting. I ended up with a couple of news websites linking through to me and that shot me up to around 500 visitors in one day, and me visitors are coming back around 3-4 a month. It is always exciting when your content is noticed!

  • My best post has gotten a little over 500 UVs…. looking to make that the average by next month >;)

  • My Arsenal fan blog gets 94 unique viewers per day according to Sitemeter. I guess that’s not too bad for a blog exactly 1 month old, but I’m hoping to see some improvement over the next couple of months…

  • it depends so much for which audience in which country and therefor language you blog – I do in German and am somekind of limited. but I can’t complain and I’m quite happy with the development of my traffic of more than 500 unique visitors a day :-)

  • Our blog is now getting over 100 visitors per day — but only recently did we reach that plateau. We launched the blog in July. It takes time to build up a readership.

  • Around 250 is my current level.

  • I’ve been getting 5-15 UV a day since I started my blog in July. After putting MyBlogLog to use, it jumped to 10-25 a day. It’s been around since two months, and it’s nearing the 1,000 visitors mark! :)

  • Just got dugg and have over 20k uniques.

  • I’m averaging just under 250, but I have spikes where i go into the 400-500 range. Like others, I am at a loss as to whether to include the RSS numbers, which according to Feedburner are averaging about 160.

    I think it might be informative to see how individual days perform. I’ve read that Tuesday is supposed be the top day for most blogs, but I’ve found that Monday and Wednesdays usually do better for me. Friday’s are generally the worse day of the work-week, even if I put up a new post Friday mornings.

    Weekends usually produce less traffic, buy it appears that readers are more likely to click on ads during the weekend, so my income stays about the same.

    – Tom

  • I get ~300/day, which I guess is doing better than I thought. Now I have a question for those of you still reading this thread… how does your subscriber count compare to your visitors/month count? Mine, throughout its limited history, seems to be relatively stable at about 1%. That is, I get about 100 visitors for every 1 subscriber (most of my traffic is from StumbleUpon, which I would guess my pull that number lower than someone’s whose traffic is mainly from another source).

    So… am I unusual with that 1%?

  • chinese blog, about 1k a day.

  • I’m currently in the process of trying to get past the 50 unique visitors a day… I seem to have loads of readers but a problem they all have is that none of them like to post… I want to try and learn how to stop this. Anyway; about 10-15 unique visitors a day.

  • Its a bell shaped curve for me. Usually I am happy around with 200 – 300 unique visitors to my site but when I see some sudden spikes as one comment already mentioned (which is mostly due to stumbleupon) it surges to 1000+ but again within 2-3 days falls back to 200+.

    It makes me mad seeing the spikes coming down sometimes …lol. Stumbleupon please be predictable!

  • My blog is pretty new, so right now it’s around 100 to 200 a day on average. My dad’s blog is Chinese and he gets a lot of page views.

  • It’s only been a few days so we’re not getting many visitors yet. but, with the right mix of news and you tube, we hope the numbers will improve soon.

  • Yeah, personally, I hate providing this “Stat” to people because it is so unreliable.

  • my stats go way up
    if i post a new haiku
    about cool music… :-)

  • arrgh! of the several blogs I maintain, the most that a blog gets is 150. however, it only averages at 70 uniques a day mostly coming from google.

  • I can’t really tell how many I have right now, I believe any of my impressions in my AdSense account page are all from me…

  • I get about 700 uniques per day.

  • Around 50 a day, its 2 months old, but I am noob and don’t know how to promote for anything, im starting to comb the internet trying to learn. i would like to be at 500+ in the next few months. Is that impossible?

  • My 3 months old blog get unique visitor around 190 – 390 in google analytics. but my statcounter count 54 per day. erm..i’m wondering what the time range to put in the setting there. (maximum visit length).

  • usualy on my website I have around 110 a month, and that’s after 2 Month blogging, not bad but I would like to see more

  • I’ve been blogging for almost two weeks now, and I’m averaging between 75-250 visitors per day. My high was just over 407 on a day when a popular blog in my niche picked up one of my posts in a post carnival. I’m hoping to continue forging alliances with other bloggers in my area, getting better at optimizing SEO, etc. We’ll see!

  • I average about 20-30 a day as of to date. I need to increase my readership though.

  • 5-10 per day i think on an average as of now… my site seems to be hidden from people view :-)

  • I just started my blog about two weeks ago and I am receiving about 100 visitors a day.

    My first week I only got 6 total hits and all of a sudden I experienced this HUGE jump. It was incredible to watch.

    I’ve never blogged before, but writing is my dream, so this was very encouraging. I don’t need my site to be as popular as yours, but I’d love to branch into other things and network.

    Your site is REALLY helpful! :)

  • Hey Bookgrl,

    That’s a great start…do you know what caused the huge jump? Did you do anything special or was it purely based on the content you’ve been writing?

    Please let us know, and please continue to share your success story – and good luck!

    Haiku Reviewer

    P.S. Any music lovers who want to leave some comments on my site…you are AAAALWAYS welcome!!! ;-)

  • Started two weeks ago, I’m experiencing a slow but steady growth. Yesterday I got 180 unique.
    PS: thank you for this page!

  • I got over 600 uniques in one day last week thanks to getting picked up by a couple of big sites…how do you guys get 180 per day after just a couple of weeks? That’s amazing…good luck everyone!

  • i started my blog about a month ago and it has close to 300 uniques per day today. Seeing you guys i feel i m doing rather very well lol. On the contrary i was still trying to push forward to bigger numbers :)

  • since last month i used to get around 600 visitors a day…after that something has changed in google SERP and now i get around 400 visitors a day. reading other forum i know that in the summnertime Google does a lot of mess in its search engine so i hope to be well off in september

    webmaster of http://www.webtlk.com

  • Currently getting on average 150 unique hits but it’s rising steadily every day as I’m really starting to post more. You get out what you put in with blogging!

  • 0-20 views per day. I am not sure about the unique count, but it’s probably a lot less. My blog is only a couple of days old, so I guess it’s expected.

  • Well, it has been varying for the first 5 days (just went live). Yesterday I had about 250, but all of that came from a comment that I left on MSN money. So my results are a little skewed. I’m not even in google yet, but I’m hopeful the site will do quite fine once we get a bit more mature.

  • Currently im in the 25-35 area, my travel deal blog is kinda a niche so im not sure where exactly it should fit?

    Any ideas?

  • I start blogging only 20 days & Get 150 visitor per day from refferal site but i don’t get any visitor from search engine.

  • Yay, we’re getting over 500 per day now! I guess people have *finally* realized what the deal is with our 3 line haiku music reviews.

    We still get hardly any comments, though – does anyone have any tips on how music fans can be encouraged to comment? I though music fans would love to talk about their favourite albums!

    Anyway, good luck with everything you guys – I am still in awe of the people who get hundreds of visitors per day after only blogging a week…it took me a year!

  • I started blogging in january, and at the time got 10-20 uniques a day. The past couple of months I’ve been getting between 2-3k uniques daily. Quite a jump, and its been nice riding that wave.. :)

  • i am getting around 60 to 70 a day.

  • It really depends. The blog is almost 2 years old come Sept. At the peak I think I’ve done around 800-1000/day for a straight month after writing a guide related to a newly released game at the time. Now adays I get roughly 200-500 a day.

  • Im getting about 1000 visitors a day. ive been blogging for 1.5 years.

    http://ethnicelebs.com/

  • Im getting about 1000 visitors a day. ive been blogging for 1.5 years.
    although the bounce rate is a little higher than I would like.

  • My blog is about a week old and I got around 40 uniques/day for the past couple days, hopefully that number keeps rising


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