Traffic Patterns: A quick year-end look at webstats

I think I missed last year, but at the end of the year and at the beginning of the new one, I like to take a look back a bit and see what happened. Last week Monday, I shared the top posts of the year. Today I thought I’d take a look at how traffic on Manufactured Environments has been.

Pageviews for Manufactured Environments 2006-2007

The graph above shows the pageviews by month since I’ve had this site hosted with Media Temple. I switched to them in March 2006, which is a partial month. What struck me about this graph is how stable the traffic has been over the past year and a half. Starting in June 2006, the traffic has routinely been very close to 120,000 pageviews a month, which works out to be about 4,000 pageviews a day.

There’s been a bump in the summer months, especially July and August, but the rest of the year has been fairly consistent. The two highest traffic months were August 2006 with 171,949 pageviews and July 2007 with 159,966 pageviews.

I recently started using Google Analytics again on the site. One thing that I noticed in the stats is how international the traffic is here at Manufactured Environments. Google says that in the past month, visitors from 96 countries have been here. Traffic from the U.S. accounted for 58% of total traffic in December, with 42% from abroad. The top 5 foreign countries by visitors to this site are the U.K., Canada, Germany, Australia and Italy.

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