Google outshine MSN / Yahoo

Yahoo 246 61.6 % 316 64.2 %
MSN 74 18.5 % 74 15 %
Google 35 8.7 % 58 11.7 %
Ask Jeeves 14 3.5 % 14 2.8 %
AltaVista 6 1.5 % 6 1.2 %
Unknown search engines 5 1.2 % 5 1 %
Overture 5 1.2 % 5 1 %
Ask Jeeves UK 3 0.7 % 3 0.6 %
Netscape 3 0.7 % 3 0.6 %
AOL 2 0.5 % 2 0.4 %
Earth Link 1 0.2 % 1 0.2 %
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 1 0.2 % 1 0.2 %
Dogpile 1 0.2 % 1 0.2 %
Hotbot 1 0.2 % 1 0.2 %
Mamma 1 0.2 % 1 0.2 %
Excite 1 0.2 % 1 0.2 %
and I've adsense

 

The last 7 days for one of my sites. These are searches, meaning the percentages do not include all referres, just referrers from search engines. Other referrers have been filtered out.

1. Google - 59.33%
2. Yahoo - 20.37%
3. MSN - 17.12%
4. AOL - 2.63%
5. Hotbot - 0.22%
6. Altavista - 0.13%
7. Excite - 0.08%
8. iWon - 0.08%
9. Alltheweb - 0.02%
10.Search - 0.02%

No AdSense, ecommerce site, no affil

 

For me on average:

Google 50%
Yahoo 25%
MSN 15%

But one must consider how the site ranks in each SE. If you are buried on page 10 of Google, you simply wont see many referrals.

/*tom*/

 

Interesting comparison on July 2004 when this thread was started:

1. Google UK 52.87%
2. Google 16.86%
3. Yahoo 13.71%
4. MSN Search UK 6.30%
5. Google Canada 1.48%
6. MSN Search 1.30%
7. Google Ireland 0.96%
8. Google France 0.82%
9. Google Germany 0.70%
10. Google Australia 0.67%
11. Google Netherlands 0.67%
12. Google Spain 0.63%
13. Google Belgium 0.59%
14. Google Denmark 0.44%
15. Google Italy 0.44%
16. AOL Search 0.41%
17. Altavista 0.37%
18. Google Finland 0.30%
19. Google Sweden 0.30%
20. BBCi Search 0.19%

Analysising the stats, Yahoo & MSN have increased considerably, Yahoo over 12% increase! Google.com has reduced by roughly the same percentage, since it's results are different than Google UK.

Darren

 

Yahoo 1019 1697
MSN 282 343
AltaVista 89 89
Google 78 80
Ask Jeeves 65 74
Dogpile 22 22
Netscape 5 6
Sympatico 4 4
Baidu 3 15
AOL 2 4
Go2Net (Metamoteur) 2 2
Unknown search engines 1 3
Excite 1 1
Ask Jeeves UK 1 1
Lycos 1 1
AllTheWeb 0 10
T-Online 0 1

 

Well, I dunno, but MSN doesn't even show up on my top 25 referrals list.

Things have been a little strange recently on our site, with HUGE amounts of traffic coming directly and we can't figure out where from. As a result, direct traffic is currently no.1 (usually it's no2 after Google).

1. www.travellerspoint.com 48.99%
2. www.google.com 12.29%
3. www.google.co.uk 5.85%
4. www.google.es 3.13%
5. www.google.de 2.65%
6. www.google.com.au 1.97%
7. www.google.ca 1.94%
8. www.google.it 1.91%
9. www.google.fr 1.74%
10. www.google.nl 1.62%
11. search.yahoo.com 1.22%
12. www.google.be 0.93%
13. www.google.ie 0.72%
14. (some guy who used one of our pics as a sig..) 0.62%
15. www.google.ch 0.57%
16. uk.search.yahoo.com 0.45%
17. www.google.co.nz 0.44%
18. www.google.com.ar 0.39%
19. www.google.co.in 0.38%
20. www.usatoday.com 0.38% (thanks to a Hot Site listing )
21. (a site that used a pic of ours ..) 0.36%
22. www.google.at 0.36%
23. www.google.com.sg 0.31%
24. www.google.com.mx 0.26%
25. aolsearch.aol.com 0.25%

This is actually the best Yahoo has been for quite some time. Their visits have greatly improved in the last few weeks.

MSN just can't manage to index enough of our pages, simple as that really.

 

You must be getting a lot of articles in the press of late D, if you are getting this sort of result.

Folks must be picking you out of the newspaper or magazines to get this in your traffic stat's

 

I'm not sure. The stats are very strange. It rocketed up last Sunday like this and has very slowly been returning to normal. We've had mentions in the press before, even on international TV, but it wasn't like this. And not only that, but membership hasn't really gone up much faster at all (although we did get a few extra due to the USA Today link). I'm thinking it's more likely to be a glitch in our stats than anything Despite that, the search engine's positions relative to each other are still interesting.

 

I first thought a stat's problem also, but as a site gets older word of mouth, print media, bookmarks all start to add up also and it is hard to tell where the traffic is coming from at that point.

Hope for your sake that this is what is happening as your site ages.

On the other hand maybe you need a new stat's package

 

Yeah true, but that would be more of a gradual thing. I'm pretty happy normally with direct referrals at close to the same as what google.com delivers. Those visits have been going up steadily since we started the site. This is just strange though.

Get this, for today during the hour of 6:00 we had 989 visits. During the hour of 7:00 we had a whopping 2,300 visits!! Things don't usually change from hour to hour like that. But the weird thing is that when I check where they're coming from, the increases are from all around the world and there's increases in multiple browser types too. And of course, I'm measuring 'visits' not hits or page views or something that could be manipulated by one visitor. Weird. Maybe someone is trying to flood us or something - that's my best guess.

Generally our stats package is pretty good (livestats), but sometimes I do wonder !!

 

Could not say, but I hope for your sake it is not an automated bot attack like the forums were getting, today you never know and have to watch careful or you will be out of luck

 

Daamsie, I agree about Yahoo! at the moment it's increasing considerably, and rankings on MSN are pretty much the same for Yahoo! for us - with the amount of marketing MSN are doing on the TV here in the UK I'm hoping referrals from them will start to increase - but we'll see.

 

Google 42.5 %
MSN 41.3 %
Yahoo 8 %
AltaVista 4.5 %
AOL 1.1 %
Ask Jeeves 1.1 %
Earth Link 1.1 %

I get barely any traffic from yahoo and the rest. My site is about dog training

Google traffic is from KW completely not related to my site but for some reason i rank on it.

MSN is bringing me the most traffic.

 

Rnking nearly even across all the engines MSN has increased slightly but I am getting alot more google.co.uk results (and MSN is now nearly all .co.uk) - MSN puts alot of weight on where you are hosted. Google still brings in 65-75% and this is a non technical area

 

Wait a sec. First you say you get 8% from Yahoo and then 0 ?? 8% seems like a reasonable amount from Yahoo.

 

Adsense does nothing at all to your web page speed, it only diverts your own visitors to your competitors sites, unless of course you need that to make money

 

Adsense does nothing at all to your web page speed, it only diverts your own visitors to your competitors sites, unless of course you need that to make money

 

-emanresu

Hey, this is a very old thread and has nothing to do with "web page speed with adsense"

Maybe you posted on the wrong thread

 

It is posted in the wrong section, I don't know how it ended up there as I had the correct page open, it was in respose to someone who was complaining their website was loading slower when they had Adwords listed on it. I'll get outta here now, sorry to bugger the forum

 

Google Rocks..