How much traffic does your website get?

[black_z]

Just curious. :)

And maybe what is the ratio of viewers : purchasers?

[bildeb0rg]

Not sure about numbers, as Smugmug displays how many times a pic has been viewed, noy how many people have been thru'.
Viewers to purchasers is easy, NOT ENOUGH!
What strikes me as odd is, why are people still going over stuff I shot two years ago, just for fun???

[CanadianKitKat]

Not sure about numbers, as Smugmug displays how many times a pic has been viewed, noy how many people have been thru'.
Viewers to purchasers is easy, NOT ENOUGH!
What strikes me as odd is, why are people still going over stuff I shot two years ago, just for fun???

If you sign up for google analytics you'll be able to tell how many visitors are hitting your website.

I've had 455 in the last month and think the month previous was about 600. I promote it heavily when shooting at events. Then of course there's family and friends ;)

[black_z]

What about views to sales? :)

[Gary_Evans]

About 5% of my website traffic purchase something. However, a lot of my event images are initially sold onsite and displayed online for additional purchases.

Looking at the terms being searched for, coupled with how many people look at my websites direct from forums such as this one, approx 10% of my web traffic are other photographers.

[tim]

Last month my professional site had 2376 visitors, served 26501 pages and had 188499 hits, and used 2.6GB bandwidth. My proofing site had 350 visitors and served 15580 pages, but it's winter so i'm not doing any weddings, in summer it's way higher. Only 3 print orders from that.

One of my other non-photography related sites (http://www.headphonereviews.org/) had 13856 unique visitors, served 136072 pages and had 520249 hits and served 8GB of traffic.

All these sites and a couple of others cost me $10 in hosting from HostGator (http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=m96rty-hr).

[black_z]

What's the difference between a visitor and a hit?

[tim]

A visitor is a person who browses your website. A page view is someone requesting a page with text on it. A hit is any request to your website - including images.

[ChrisRabior]

Give Google Analytics a shot. I haven't had my website up for long, but it's an excellent tracking system for traffic. I put it on my smugmug account and some other sites I have, and I'm thrilled to death with how it's doing so far in terms of tracking activity.

[bildeb0rg]

No idea why I didn't think of this last night, here's my Smuggy stats page http://davemorgan.smugmug.com/homepage/stats.mg?Month=8
These are last months figures. Hits: 142801 C. Ratio: ~55% Bytes: 5.27 GB

[arnie12]

And I use Adblock to block all requests from Google Analytics and I am sure not the only one doing this. Adblock is a wonderful utility that makes loading web pages so much faster. :D

[Tandem]

Well over a million picture hits a month last year for football season and almost a million a month for basketball. It gives the kids something to do when schoolwork gets boring. :)

[black_z]

Wow!