Buster Tests reaches more than 10k uniques/month

That’s about 400% up on last year.
Here’s a breakdown.

10729 unique visitors
17371 visits from those visitors
91330 pages served
nearly half a million ‘hits’.
XHTML/CSS helped me with the bandwidth, but the colourful design meant more than 4.3 GB was downloaded.

Revenue

Part of me wants to tell you, but the other part doesn’t. It was good, and definitely a record turn-out, but that’s mostly thanks to the mobile article, actually. It’s not as high as what you might first expect, at any rate.

Timing

11am is the most popular hour for revision, 7am the least.

Who and where?

The US likes Buster Tests roughly 50% more than the UK. 333 pages were served to Malta, while Macedonia, Iceland and Latvia didn’t even really visit. They did give me a hit or two, though.

Indexing

The bastards over at Alexa/IA Archive took over half a gigabyte of data from me, and Google wasn’t far behind at 335 MB.

Popular pages and referrals

The most popular page was the front page, but just about as many people who looked at the front page looked at a test result page, which is quite good. This is my most popular test. An introduction to media studies is my most popular Buster Answer.

Wikipedia was my biggest referrer (thanks to a bit of link love), they’re especially fond of Media Studies articles.

Now that I’m on the front page for ‘GCSE Revision‘ on Google, I’m getting an unusual 11% of search engine referrals from it. Other cool keywords (and the links go to Buster Tests so forgive me) are ‘theory test revision‘ (1.2%), ‘GCSE physics revision‘ (1%), ‘GCSE tests‘ (0.9%), and ‘driving theory revision‘ (0.9%).

More than 80% (≈10000 hits) of my search engine refferals weren’t in the top ten keywords. This is the long tail of search in action.

I hope you found that interesting.

It’s sort of like peering into a neighbours house and finding out what they’ve got inside. I don’t tend to give away information like this often, but I think this kind of stuff is interesting.

Link self-love - great GCSE revision notes

It has to be done. Take a look at the beautiful generated code of this list, if you like. Ahh, the wonders of tags.

Nice.

James P 2nd June 2006

Nice stats! I’m always amazed how much bandwidth indexing spiders can use up over the months! Half a Gig from Alexa is pretty crazy!

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