I have just done my analysis for May, and think it would be interesting to compare notes. My site is very technical and appeals to engineers, I have about 230 pages, and 65000 visitors per month. I wonder if the technical nature skews my results toward Google. Only counting the search engines listed: Google 84% Yahoo 7.7% MSN 5.6 % AOL 0.6% Netscape 1.3% Altavista 0.6% alltheweb 0.1% In this I have included all search engines with"google" in the name, etc. How do your results compare? Best regards wiz
My big e-commerce site shows Google 45% Yahoo 23.5% MSN 22.8% Other 8.7% I would say this site appeals to "good ole boys".
I screwed up May (long story), but here are my stats from April: Direct address / Bookmarks: 45745 Links from a NewsGroup: 11 Links from an Internet Search Engine -- - Google: 72294 - Yahoo: 2992 - MSN: 1906 - AOL: 998 - Unknown search engines: 556 - AltaVista: 284 - Netscape: 258 - Dogpile: 250 - Earth Link: 122 - MetaCrawler (Metamoteur): 73 - Others: 586 Links from an external page: 9160
5 internet retail site approx: 2% AOL 2% AJ 3% Yahoo 1% MSN 92% Google (off the top of my head and amalgamating all .co.uk/com varieties...) Need more non-google traffic! Working on it...
It has been since June since I posted these, here are updates. Again, our site is mostly for electrical engineersL May 2004 results recapped: Google 84% Yahoo 7.7% MSN 5.6 % AOL 0.6% Netscape 1.3% Altavista 0.6% alltheweb 0.1% December 2004 Google 82.8% Yahoo 9.2% (this increase is a surprise) MSN 5.5% AOL 1.2% Netscape 0.7% Altavista 0.5% Alltheweb 0.04% Overture 0.1% (and I am advertising on Overture a bit) Ask 0.3% It looks like Yahoo has taken a bit of Google traffic.
Here are some December stats from one of my sites: Total: 148,243 Google 119648 Yahoo 9811 AOL 7033 MSN 4224 Unknown search engines 1891 Netscape 1528 Dogpile 922 Earth Link 747 AltaVista 492 Ask Jeeves 363 Others 1584
Since I have a calculator I thought I would put this in perspective. It looks like the web developers you are targeting are much more spread out than the EEs I am targeting.
The traffic stats are quite interesting for dec 2004 Yahoo 38% msn 31% G 8% I rank in the top 3 for my main k-words in Y and Msn. in the 30 range for G last month. Have moved up into the 20 recently and have seen a small increase in g since. Does anyone rank the same in g and Y for a particular Keyword? It would be intresting to compare heads up on a keyword.
Mine went like this in December: Google: 73% MSN: 13% Yahoo: 12% Others: 2% MSN and Yahoo have made 2%+ jumps over November which dropped Google 4%+