We’re halfway through April, and that means that I’m two weeks late on the March traffic report for the WHH — time to jump on that one.
Traffic Overview
In March WoW Hunters Hall had 42,395 visits and 103,844 pageviews, with a total of 22,325 unique visitors. This is an increase of about 4k visits and an increase of over 10k pageviews.
The traffic split between search engines, referring sites, and direct visits is almost identical to February, with again a majority (or plurality technically) of traffic coming from search engines, which is a good thing, though we also saw a slight rise in the number of direct visits to the WHH, which is also a good thing.
Referring Sites
The top referring sites (sites with a link to WoW Hunters Hall that people clicked on to get here) breaks down as follows:
- Warcraft Hunters Union – 67.19%
- WoW Insider – 5.61%
- OutDPS – 3.12%
- YouTube – 2.39%
- Twitter – 2.30%
- The Brewhall – 0.86%
- Elitist Jerks – 0.67%
YouTube traffic dropped significantly from the high of over 6% last month, even though just about any video posted on the WHH generates large numbers of video views and results in the “As Seen on WoW Hunters Hall” tag being placed on the YouTube page. At the same time traffic from WoW Insider surged when I posted on Scattered Shots that the WHH was a good source of the latest MoP news. Traffic from Twitter also increased substantially, and the kindly folks at Elitist Jerks have also sent a measurable amount of traffic to the WHH in March.
Keywords
The variations of WoW Hunters Hall that usually account for all the top keywords were mostly pushed down the list in March as other keywords started bringing in higher traffic. The top non-branded keyword phrases driving traffic were:
- mists of pandaria release date (seriously guys?)
- shannox heroic hunters guide
- hunter 4.3 gear
- hunter pvp 11
- hunter solo sunwell
- best hunter spec
- wow hunter
- 4.3 hunter trinkets
Hottest Hunter Articles
Of the 103,844 pageviews WoW Hunters Hall received in March, 24.67% 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 (given the amount of time they have to collect views for the month).
- Dragon Soul Boss Strategies and Videos for Hunters – 2.64% (4th month in a row on top)
- MoP Hunter Glyphs and Items – 1.57%
- Kripparrian is First to Complete the Ironman Challenge – 1.16%
- Solo Farming for Thoridal the Stars Fury – 1.15%
- My Dark Ranger Transmog – 0.95%
- New Spirit Beasts in Mists of Pandaria – 0.83%
- Mists of Pandaria Release Date Estimate – 0.82% (seriously guys?)
Regional Stats
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Yippi, Norway is on 9th. :) Good job fellow norwegians. We may be a small country, but we’re eager hunters!
Hehe, I must laugh at the “Release Date”-traffic. But I’ve been like a bloodhound on this subject myself, I WANT MOP NOW. :) (And I also added all predictions I could find in a post of my own: http://laeleiweyn.blogspot.com/2012/03/mists-of-pandaria-lcaunch-predictions.html. July is looking strong.)
Anyway, I’ve been waiting for this post, as I have some numbers on my own: 13 % of all traffic to my site in March was from you guys, and I want to thank so much for that. The number is probably in reality higher, as people found me cause of you, and perhaps checked me directly after.
WHH was an amazing idea for us little people, and I hope you the founders also get what you want out of it. :)
Lae
Norway might be 9th, but Denmark is 8th while being a smaller country as well! Bwaha!
You have a good site as well Lael, I generally click on WHH links to your site.
Damn! xD
And thank you. :-)
No no, THANK YOU! Loving them transmog ideas/posts.
Thanks for the traffic update — it’s great to hear the the WHH is helping out hunter bloggers.
That was part of the original goal — to support the many hunter bloggers in the community, as well as to help the hunters in general to find all the news our great community is creating.
Many, many props to Tabana who keeps things going here.
I think the problem with YouTube referrals was that Facebook was interfering with the creation of our captions on the WHH page automatically generated for us on YouTube so that when people clicked on the “as seen on WoW Hunters Hall” link they encountered a bunch of scary code gibberish instead of captions. Now that Frost has removed the Facebook media icons from our posts, hopefully that problem should be resolved for future videos we link.
I’m not sure what to make of all the searches for Shannox information… that has been on top for months now. Are there really that many people still looking for Shannox info or is there a computer somewhere that just sits there searching for “Shannox heroic hunter’s guide” on autopilot for some reason?
It’s interesting to see that more hunters are looking for soloing info for Sunwell to farm for the legendary bow (Thoridal) now.
And way to go Sesamee on your Dark Ranger transmog article!