RCG vs. SB Stats

[The Tim]

Whenever Dustin posts stats over at Rain City Guide, I can't help but compare them to the same stats for Seattle Bubble.

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Adding up the totals for each category shows a total of 49,454 visitors for February. He also specifically points out the 2,826 people that visited RCG more than 200 times. Impressive, for sure.

Here's the same Google Analytics page for Seattle Bubble in February:

Our February total was 65,153 visitors. We had 11,555 people that visited over 200 times in February.

Wow, people.

[laxtosnoco]

Congrats! Any RE site would be proud of those stats, and you didn't even have to resort to any Greatest Realtor in the World nonsense.

[Alan]

I smell something that smells like Lookout Landing.

[jillayne]

Very cool.
I promote your site in the classroom all the time!

[sniglet]

[WestSideBilly]

7 times a day? How the heck is that determined?

I have a tendency to load a page + comments and skim through it over the course of about an hour. Does the next page load represent visit 2?

[jillayne]

Hi Sniglet,

Very few Realtor and mortgage broker students of mine have ever heard of seattlebubble let alone raincityguide and even sites like calculatedrisk. I taught a class on foreclosures this morning, about 25 Realtor students, and only one of them had read these blogs. This is typical. I drew out the mortgage meltdown diagram on the board showing the systemic path from the consumer, the mtg broker, the wholesale lender, the investment banker, the monolines, ratings agencies, and so forth, and very few were aware of the extent of the crisis.

Which never ceases to astonish me.

[sniglet]

[mike2]

[rose-colored-coolaid]

[perfectfire]

[The Tim]

January 2009 Update:

Rain City Guide January:

Seattle Bubble January: 87,250 visits, 215,833 page views

[mukoh]

Tim would it not be correct that RCGs post you linked refers to visitors not visits, you refer to seattle bubble having visits. Which using that metrics to compare visitors was 59k from RCG post and your google chart shows only 32k?

I checked compete.com for comparison seems to be correct at least from their judgement.

[The Tim]

Since Dustin didn't post a screenshot I can only assume that he is using the same terminology he has used in the past, which has referred to Google Analytics' measure of "visits."

I do know from previous stats Dustin has posted (including the one at the top of this thread) that while RCG doesn't get as many overall hits as Seattle Bubble, they do get more actual unique individual people visiting the site in a given month, because the vast majority of their visits are "drive-by" visitors that drop in a single time and never return, whereas on Seattle Bubble that only makes up about 1/4 of our traffic.

Compete.com is pretty useless on smaller niche sites like RCG and Seattle Bubble. They don't have tracking code on our sites, and their #s are basically just a wild guess.

[deejayoh]

Since both sites are tagged, Quantcast should have the best comparison data.



Note that Ardell's "bottom call" has really upped traffic at RCG