Nice job, Richmond! Traffic to the wiki is continuing to climb, despite the traditional summer slowdown in general web traffic.
Visits to the site increased 7% over the previous 31 days (5/31 – 6/30) but engagement levels were down (time on site, average page views per visit, bounce rate).
Here’s the breakdown:
July 2009 Site Statistics (click to enlarge)
Most Popular Articles
Many of this month’s most popular articles were promoted in various social networks (mainly Twitter). Additionally, the timeliness of the July 4th Fireworks article led to a nice spike in organic search engine traffic. Finally, the prominence of the Belle Isle article has to do with some tie-ins to the article on Wikipedia (and the nice weather).
Here are the top 25 most viewed pages from July:
Top Referral Sources
Last month’s traffic seems to skew heavily towards “direct” visits (people typing a URL into their browser) but this is slightly misleading. A significant portion of the “direct” visits are actually from shortened URLs on social networking sites like Twitter.
It is nice to see the growth in traffic from links placed in relevant Wikipedia articles.
| Source/Medium | Visits | Pages/Visit | Avg. Time on Site (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| google / organic | 486 | 2.3 | 62.2 |
| (direct) / (none) | 361 | 2.9 | 75.4 |
| en.wikipedia.org / referral | 70 | 3.5 | 103.6 |
| msn / organic | 47 | 1.8 | 43.7 |
| communitywiki.org / referral | 39 | 3.7 | 216.2 |
| twitter.com / referral | 31 | 3.7 | 229.2 |
| yahoo / organic | 27 | 1.4 | 18.4 |
| aol / organic | 21 | 1.4 | 12.8 |
| live / organic | 19 | 1.9 | 21.2 |
| richmondgoodlife.com / referral | 16 | 4.9 | 58.1 |
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