I did a little digging, and it turns out I totally missed the September traffic report. This was because I am massively lazy, which I think we can all agree is a suitable excuse. So with a one month absense, here is the traffic report for WoW Hunters Hall in October — how many people come here, what they read the most and all that good stuff.
Eidotrope of OutDPS had a great idea some time ago to try to do some research into just how significant WHH is to other hunter bloggers — find out how much traffic they get from the WHH, and what kind of impact it’s had. I think this is a phenomenal idea, unfortunately there are two main problems: the first is the difficulty in getting other bloggers to divulge their analytics data. Don’t get me wrong, I could probably sweet talk it out of several people, but it’s a challenge. This leads us to the second, bigger issue: I am massively lazy. It’s in my mind, but we’ll see whether I get around to pursuing it. Encouragement is encouraged.
Traffic Overview
In October WoW Hunters Hall had 39,249 visits and 80,935 page views, with a total of 21,669 unique visitors. This is significantly fewer visits than August, and fewer pageviews; however, it’s just about the same number of unique visitors, implying that just as many people are using WoW Hunters Hall, but are visiting it less often. Interesting.
The majority of WHH traffic came from referring traffic from another site (50.19%) — however in August that was over 70% — far more people are now coming directly to or searching directly for the WoW Hunters Hall. Search engines brought in 30.68% of traffic, and the majority of that was for branded phrases (searches for a variation of “WoW Hunters Hall”).
This was enough traffic that the wee ad you see over on the right raked in $3.59, which is going straight into Frostheim’s getting trashed account (and is why he drinks so seldom).
Referring Sites
The top referring sites (sites with a link to WoW Hunters Hall that someone clicked on) breaks down as follows:
- Warcraft Hunters Union – 78.18%
- OutDPS – 1.93%
- Marks-365 – 1.26%
- WoW Insider – 1.22%
- Elitist Jerks – 0.78%
- Facebook – 0.7%
Keywords
Google was responsible for 94.53% of the search engine traffic to WoW Hunters Hall. The top several keyword phrases were variations of WoW Hunters Hall, accounting for about 10.1% of all search traffic. The top non-branded keyword phrases driving traffic were:
- hunter transmogrification
- 4.3 hunter patch notes
- hunter 4.3
- kirix
- elitist jerks
- zeherah
- best hunter spec
Most Viewed Content
Of the 80,935 page views WoW Hunters Hall received in October, 29.8% were the home page. After that the top viewed pages were as follows. Note that while this is interesting data, articles posted early in the month have an advantage, and those posted at the very end have a severe disadvantage.
- Solo Farming for Thori’dai, the Stars’ Fury – 4.04%
- Firelands: Boss Strategies and Videos for Hunters – 3.39%
- Hunter Patch 4.3 Changes – 2.1%
- Elitist Jerks Weekly Recap 10/7/11 – 2.02%
- State of DPS in Firelands – 1.74%
- Choosing a Hunter Race – 1.66
I love stats like that, it’s neat to see what the break down of everything is.
I look at mine…it’s me. only me. from firefox or iphone, from the US.
But then my content is…how should we say…limited? rehashed? ah screw it, boring as hell? hehe.. (self-deprecating definitely).
I have to say though Frost, it’s nice to have this site. It gives you an across the board view of the hunter community.
People will tend to stick with their favorites though. So it really doesn’t surprise me about the traffic dip.
But anyway…they’re great sites, I hope that this portal stays open.
Meech
Poland traffic is mine :)
It’s surprising to me to see the dip around the time Blizzcon was happening. I would’ve thought that, out of the entire year, that would’ve been when we got a spike in traffic.
But 21k+ individual viewers? Glad to see the site is an important resource.