{"id":374,"date":"2006-09-07T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2006-09-07T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:37:00","slug":"tooting-seattle-bubbles-statistical-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/tooting-seattle-bubbles-statistical-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooting Seattle Bubble&#8217;s Statistical Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that Dustin posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/09\/07\/10-things-i-learned-from-my-stats-tonight\/\" title=\"10 Things I Learned From My Stats Tonight\">latest visitor stats for Rain City Guide<\/a>, and I just couldn&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/04\/02\/what-to-look-for-in-your-real-estate-blog-stats\/\" title=\"What to Look For In Your Real Estate Blog Stats\">the last time Dustin posted RCG stats, in March<\/a>.  Here are the RCG and Seattle Bubble hit graphs through March &#8217;06:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/1600\/RCG_visitors_2006.03.jpg\" title=\"Rain City Guide Visitor Graph March 2006\" rel=\"lightbox[374]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/400\/RCG_visitors_2006.03.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Rain City Guide Visitor Graph March 2006\" alt=\"Rain City Guide Visitor Graph March 2006\" height=\"257\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/1600\/seattlebubble_visitors_2006.03.png\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Visitor Graph March 2006\" rel=\"lightbox[374]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/400\/seattlebubble_visitors_2006.03.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Visitor Graph March 2006\" alt=\"Seattle Bubble Visitor Graph March 2006\" height=\"271\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>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&mdash;roughly 15,000 to Seattle Bubble&#8217;s 7,500.  Now let&#8217;s fast-forward to the present.  Here are the most recent visitor graphs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/09\/07\/10-things-i-learned-from-my-stats-tonight\/\" title=\"10 Things I Learned From My Stats Tonight\">for RCG<\/a> and Seattle Bubble:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/1600\/RCG_visitors_2006.08.png\" title=\"Rain City Guide Visitor Graph August 2006\" rel=\"lightbox[374]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/400\/RCG_visitors_2006.08.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Rain City Guide Visitor Graph August 2006\" alt=\"Rain City Guide Visitor Graph August 2006\" height=\"262\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/1600\/seattle.bubble_visitors_2006.08.png\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Visitor Graph August 2006\" rel=\"lightbox[374]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2906\/550\/400\/seattle.bubble_visitors_2006.08.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Visitor Graph August 2006\" alt=\"Seattle Bubble Visitor Graph August 2006\" height=\"271\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>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 &#8220;unique visitors&#8221; to Rain City Guide&#8217;s 23,000 (my rough guess based on Dustin&#8217;s chart).  I&#8217;m using Google Analytics as the source of the data for these graphs (in order to directly compare to Dustin&#8217;s graphs from the same source), however you can poke around the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.statcounter.com\/project\/standard\/stats.php?project_id=846194&#038;guest=1\" title=\"Statcounter: Seattle Bubble\">public Statcounter stats<\/a> for yourself if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m totally and unashamedly copying Dustin on this post, here are a few interesting tidbits from the Google Analytics stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24% (7,185) of visitors in August arrived through Google searches.<\/li>\n<li>23% (6,979) of visitors last month came through their bookmarks or typed the address in directly.<\/li>\n<li>The top three blogs referring traffic to Seattle Bubble in August were <a href=\"http:\/\/thehousingbubbleblog.com\/\" title=\"The Housing Bubble Blog\">The Housing Bubble Blog<\/a> (5,235), <a href=\"http:\/\/van-housing.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Vancouver Housing Market\">Vancouver Housing Market<\/a> (1,604), and <a href=\"http:\/\/bubblemeter.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Bubble Meter\">Bubble Meter<\/a> (747).<\/li>\n<li>Many of you are tech-savvy, as 31% of you are using the superior web browser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\" title=\"Get Firefox\">Firefox<\/a>.  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\" title=\"Get Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/adblock.mozdev.org\/\" title=\"Adblock Addon\">Adblock<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/1136\/\" title=\"Filterset.G Updater Addon\">Filterset.G Updater<\/a> FTW!<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The top 10 search phrases that landed people on Seattle Bubble account for 40% of all search engine traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Of all the unique visitors in August, 3,622 visited Seattle bubble more than 200 times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One stat from Dustin&#8217;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.  :^(<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Dustin &#038; the Rain City Guide crew on their continued growth.  Since our &#8220;target markets&#8221; are quite different it&#8217;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 &#8220;Seattle&#8217;s most popular real estate blog.&#8221;  :^)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; padding: 2px; font-size: 12px; width: 150px; text-align: center; border: 1px dashed #4386ce; background-color: #D5E2F1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=paypal%40timandjeni.com&#038;no_note=1&#038;tax=0&#038;currency_code=USD&#038;lc=US&#038;item_name=Seattle%20Bubble%20Donation\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Tip Jar\">Seattle Bubble Tip Jar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that Dustin posted the latest visitor stats for Rain City Guide, and I just couldn&#8217;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. 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