Statistics on yearly surfing habits??

Redleg · #1 Nov 29th 2004, 1:12 pm

In reference to my thread here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=5532
Where I was a bit surprised by the decrease in traffic in during the holiday week(end)...

Do any of you know if there exists any statistics on surfing habits?

It's would have been nice to know when we could expect the traffic to go up or down (on average) during the year..

Thanks..

nevetS · #2 Dec 3rd 2004, 10:24 pm

I think it's like the restaurant industry. Everybody has different high and low times, and keeping track of your history is the key to your future.

J.D. · #3 Dec 4th 2004, 11:17 am

Reports of this nature can be obtained from such organizations as Forrester Research (www.forrester.com), Gartner Group (www.gartner.com), Jupiter Research (www.jupiterresearch.com), etc. They aren't free, though - ranging from about $100 USD to much more than this.

In general, with enough web server logs, you will soon figure out surfing practices of your visitors on your own. Just make sure you use some sort of web traffic analysis tool on a regular basis.

J.D.

Redleg · #4 Dec 4th 2004, 11:35 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by J.D.

In general, with enough web server logs, you will soon figure out surfing practices of your visitors on your own. Just make sure you use some sort of web traffic analysis tool on a regular basis.

I regularly analyze my logs, but my traffic has steadily increased (a lot) this year, so it's a bit hard to find any traffic trends just based on them..