I noticed that Dustin posted the latest visitor stats for Rain City Guide, and I just couldn’t resist posting the same stats for Seattle Bubble. Before I get to the current stats though, I thought it would be interesting to look back at the last time Dustin posted RCG stats, in March. Here are the RCG and Seattle Bubble hit graphs through March ’06:
With a five-month head start on Seattle Bubble, Rain City Guide was pulling in about twice as many unique visitors per month in March—roughly 15,000 to Seattle Bubble’s 7,500. Now let’s fast-forward to the present. Here are the most recent visitor graphs for RCG and Seattle Bubble:
Woo-hoo! Not only did we catch up with Dustin and crew, we passed them up, and pulled in approximately 30% more visitors last month. The August stats for Seattle Bubble show just over 30,000 “unique visitors” to Rain City Guide’s 23,000 (my rough guess based on Dustin’s chart). I’m using Google Analytics as the source of the data for these graphs (in order to directly compare to Dustin’s graphs from the same source), however you can poke around the public Statcounter stats for yourself if you’re interested.
Since I’m totally and unashamedly copying Dustin on this post, here are a few interesting tidbits from the Google Analytics stats:
- 24% (7,185) of visitors in August arrived through Google searches.
- 23% (6,979) of visitors last month came through their bookmarks or typed the address in directly.
- The top three blogs referring traffic to Seattle Bubble in August were The Housing Bubble Blog (5,235), Vancouver Housing Market (1,604), and Bubble Meter (747).
- Many of you are tech-savvy, as 31% of you are using the superior web browser Firefox. Firefox + Adblock + Filterset.G Updater FTW!
- The top 10 search phrases that landed people on Seattle Bubble account for 40% of all search engine traffic.
- Of all the unique visitors in August, 3,622 visited Seattle bubble more than 200 times.
One stat from Dustin’s post that I found somewhat amusing was that Seattle Bubble is the blog that referred the most visitors to RCG in August. Note that they do not even link back to us on their front page. :^(
Congrats to Dustin & the Rain City Guide crew on their continued growth. Since our “target markets” are quite different it’s not really fair to directly compare graphs like this, but I enjoy some good-natured competition. And besides, now I can say that Seattle Bubble is “Seattle’s most popular real estate blog.” :^)