From a week back in December 2008 to this week, my website Alberta Marketing jumped from a rank of 24,524,986th most popular website in the world to the 4,042,718th most popular website in the world.
That sounds like a big jump. But here are the numbers that caused the jump:
Last week I had an average of 1.5 visitors per day to my site.
In a week in December, I was getting 1.3 daily visitors.
Also, I had recently joined Alexa and because of this, my own visits to my website made it look disproportionately more popular. Alexa is actually a poor traffic measurement tool.
What this demonstrates is that there is a huge number of sites on the net that receive between 1 and 2 visitors a day. There are about 200 million domain names on the internet (davidhowsemarketing.com is one of them).
So, 20 million websites receive between 1.3 visits a day and 1.5 visits a day.
The moral of this story is that if someone tells you their website is in the top 2% of all websites (like mine) then the guy really isn’t saying a lot. And now you can reply, “So that means 1.5 people looked at your site today?” 🙂
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David Howse is an Alberta Marketer. Click to visit his Calgary Marketing website.
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