The South Side Business Blog

• April 2013 traffic stats for SouthSideBusiness.com

  April 2013 traffic almost doubled over April 2012 for SouthSideBusiness.com.We had:4,345 unique visitors, up 96%7,311 visits, up 72%21, 737 pageviews, up 94% and225,918 hits, up 72%*Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. A hit is counted any time a file is called up. For example a webpage with 6 pictures and a block of text can generate 7 or more hits from a single pageview.Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers.  Traffic stats from AllWeb stats.According to Google Analytics demographics, 97% of April 2013 visits were from the U.S., 64% from Colorado, 48% from Colorado Springs and Fountain. Click here for information about advertising your business on SouthSideBusiness.com

• Record number of unique visitors to SouthSideBusiness.com in March

  Here are the stats for March 2013 for SouthSideBusiness.com8027 Visits 4460 Unique visitors19411 Pageviews 229662 Hits*Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. A hit is counted any time a file is called up. For example a webpage with 6 pictures and a block of text can generate 7 or more hits from a single pageview.Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers.  Stats from AllWeb stats.According to Google Analytics demographics, 96% of visits are from the U.S., 60% from Colorado, 45% from Colorado Springs and Fountain.  Click here for information about advertising your business on SouthSideBusiness.com

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• February Stats for SouthSideBusiness.com

  Here are the stats for February 2013 for SouthSideBusiness.com6704 Visits 3552 Unique visitors17701 Pageviews 185642 Hits*Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. A hit is counted any time a file is called up. For example a webpage with 6 pictures and a block of text can generate 7 or more hits from a single pageview.Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers.  Stats from AllWeb stats.Click here for information about advertising your business on SouthSideBusiness.com

• More stats for SouthSideBusiness.com

  We now use three different sets of tracking software for SouthSideBusiness.com. Each has its own methodology and parameters, so each gives different results. However, they have unique characteristics that make them all useful.We'll continue to use AWStats for traffic reporting, as that's what we started with and I want to compare apples to apples from month to month.Google Analytics provides geographic information though. We can tell roughly where our traffic is coming from.Over the past 30 days, about 45% of visits came from Colorado Springs and Fountain. About 12% came from the Denver metro area. 4% came from NYC. Rounding out the top cities were Minneapolis, Encino and Mount Laural at about 1% each. About 93% of traffic overall came from the U.S.

• January web stats for SouthSideBusiness.com

  Here are the stats for January 2013 for SouthSideBusiness.com7468 Visits 3933 Unique visitors19456 Pageviews 207,480 HitsJanuary was our second highest traffic month ever, behind only Oct 2012 (but not by much). *Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. A hit is counted any time a file is called up. For example a webpage with 6 pictures and a block of text can generate 7 or more hits from a single pageview. Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers.  Stats from AllWeb stats.Click here for information about advertising your business on SouthSideBusiness.com

• December web stats for SouthSideBusiness.com

  Happy New Year all! December 2012 was second, all-time, in unique visitors at 1,608, and second in pageviews at 18,096.  Total visits came in at 6,637, third best ever. October 2012 still holds the records in all three categories.Year over year, traffic in all categories has more than doubled compared to December 2011.*Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers. I'm not emphasizing "hits" because it's not a useful number. A single visit to one page of a website can generate a dozen or more hits. But for the record, this month we got over 169,000 hits. Stats from AllWeb stats.Click here for information about advertising your business on SouthSideBusiness.com

• November stats for SouthSideBusiness.com

  November 2012 was second only to October 2012 in web traffic for SouthSideBusiness.com. We had 6945 visits from 3317 unique visitors. Total pageviews for the month were 17,518 or an average of 584 page views per day. Click here for information about advertising your business on SouthSideBusiness.com. *Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers. I'm not emphasizing "hits" because it's not a useful number. A single visit to one page of a website can generate a dozen or more hits. But for the record, this month we got over 170,000 hits. Stats from AllWeb stats

• October 2012, new record traffic and first year over year comparison for SouthSideBusiness.com

  October 2012 easily set new traffic records on SouthSideBusiness.com.   The site received 8186 visits from 4075 unique visitors and 21,225 pageviews. This is the first month that we have year over year comparisons since the relaunch of the re-formatted site. The October 2012 numbers are up nearly 400% from October 2011.  SouthSideBusiness.com had been up for over six years before the relaunch, displaying a pdf  version of the monthly hard-copy of the paper. Click here for information about advertising your business on SouthSideBusiness.com. *Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers. I'm not emphasizing "hits" because it's not a useful number. A single visit to one page of a website can generate a dozen or more hits. But for the record, this month we got over 225,000 hits.

• September traffic for SouthSideBusiness.com

  September set records for unique visitors as well as pageviews on SouthSideBusiness.com.   Number of visits was very close at 5990, second only to August 2012. We had 3138 unique visitors and 16,472 pageviews. For information on advertising on SouthSideBusiness.com click Here. *Explanation of terms. A unique visitor is an IP address. It's not quite a unique person as people sharing a home or office network, in most cases, would be reflected as a single unique user. A visit is someone coming on site, whether they visit one page or ten, then exiting the site (that's one visit). A pageview is just what it sounds like, the number of pages within the site that were viewed. Robots and Spiders used by search engines to catalog sites, are not included in these numbers. I'm not emphasizing "hits" because it's not a useful number. A single visit to one page of a website can generate a dozen or more hits. But for the record, we average over 150,000 hits per month.