Was looking at my YTD stats today and a question came to mind. What % of SE traffic came from Google and how did it stack up compared to others. Here's what I came up with. Google: 46.3% (Main Google: 26.9%) (Google UK: 9.5%) (Other Google: 9.9%) Yahoo: 15.3% MSN: 5.5% Other SE's: 32.9% If anyone else has any numbers they would like to throw up I might get a better idea of how bad I'm doing. Note: SE's represent about 30% of my total traffic. The rest come from either links, bookmarks or places with no referal available.
I think I looked at this before and about 80% of our SE traffic comes from Google, one country or another.
Google: 91.1% Other 1% are search engines that use Google data The rest is Yahoo, Altavista, and some other less known search engines.
10% of total traffic and 47% of referrals come from Google (all countries). My stats are probably a bit biased as I do a lot of advertising with quite a few "non-search engine" sites. But, out of SE traffic, Google's probably around 65% or more.
I'm about 60% from google. If MSN's tech preview would go live, MSN might be able to pick up quite a bit. I only optimize for google now; I figure MSN and Yahoo will eventually follow in google's footsteps anyways, so optimizing for 1 will always lead to optimization for the others - at least in some degree.
For www.komar.org last month, if you assign a "value" of 100 for the number of Google inbounds, then there were 40 from images.google, 16 from images.yahoo, 13 from MSN search, 12 from Yahoo (regular), and 8 from AOL ...
1.Google 44.80% 2.Microsoft Network 25.90% 3.Yahoo 25.65% 4.AOL NetFind 1.92% 5.Overture 0.79% 6.AltaVista 0.74% 7.iWon 0.10% 8.InfoSpace 0.05% 9.Mamma 0.05% here is some of our tracking from September
Google 37.71% Microsoft Network 29.61% Yahoo 27.09% AOL NetFind 2.65% AltaVista 1.26% Overture 1.12% Mamma 0.14% MegaSpider 0.14% iWon 0.14% Lycos 0.14% another site
Google 68.3% MSN 15.8% Yahoo 8.8% AOL 3% Netscape 0.9% Unknown search engines 0.6% Dogpile 0.5% Ask Jeeves 0.4% AltaVista 0.3% Earth Link 0.2% Excite 0.1% Sympatico 0.1% (Caanadian SE) MetaCrawler 0.1% Alexa <0.1 % AllTheWeb <0.1% WISENut <0.1% Hotbot <0.1% Lycos <0.1% InfoSpace <0.1% ix quick <0.1% DMOZ <0.1% Teoma <0.1%
Yesterday's traffic: google 79.20% yahoo 11.70% msn 3.70% aol 1.90% comcast 0.80% mywebsearch 0.80% search 0.50% mysearch 0.50% dogpile 0.30% earthlink 0.20% ask 0.10% cometsystems 0.10% excite 0.10% websearch 0.10% altavista 0.10% Google is still the king and I love it
Thanks for responding and posting numbers. Nothing I didn't expect. Looks like I need to keep working on getting my Goggle % up there a bit. And MSN and Yahoo wouldn't hurt either. I've found recently that I'm getting a lot more traffic from image searches. Which doesn't surprise me because of the type of site mine is. Because of that I just recently changed all my image file names to include a major keyword. After doing a little research it's amazing how many people just use random illogical names for images. Maybe changing the names won't help but I don't think it will hurt. Google image bot went crazy a few days ago and crawled the entire site. I hope it doesn't take them too long to update their data.
FYI FWIW: I'm currently getting a s*itload of traffic from a source not mentioned yet - the halloween webcam got FARK'ed today ... so it's "webcam gone wild" at the Hulk's place tonight! ;-) I make the web stats publically available and they are updated hourly. The neighbors just called and said "WTF" ... everything is holding togather ... so far ...
google doesn't dish me up anything. Almost all of the google organics that I am getting right now are for searches of my url. My page has yet to be ranked tho so... we'll see if that changes.