VMGuru.nl: how did we do in 2009?
hey folks!
First of all, a happy newyear to you all!
With 2009 behind us, we look forward to a new and intense 2010. Personally, I think 2010 will be a very interesting year. With the world economy leaving the ruins of the crisis and alot of new trends and technology introductions ahead, we are in for quite a treat. Also, we are eagerly looking forward to VMworld in Copenhagen, later this year. We hope to see a lot of you in Denmark!
However, a quick look back is in order too. In 2008, VMguru.nl kicked off with a very small group of followers and in the beginning we only had a very limited public, mostly techies, mostly dutch, mostly familiar people. In 2009, the group slowly got bigger. With VMworld in Cannes we saw a huge increase in hits at the site. Traffic went through the roof as it had never done before. This very clearly shows in our yearly stats. After the big rise in march, we experienced somewhat of a drop in april but in the following months the numbers started to climb. Month after month more followers viewed our site. Another trend also displays itself. The people following us at twitter are not just the migration and implementation techies, we also see virtualisation enthousiasts, company administrators and hobbyists joining us.
So, all in all, 2009 was a pretty succesfull year for VMGuru.nl. December displayed a new record too. We passed the 1.5 million hits per month mark! This is more than 600% above the amount of hits we had in january! Needless to say, we are very happy to see so many people on our site (and a bit proud too, tbh :)) I made a little statistic to show you how we did in 2009. It displays the amount of hits per month in 2009 from january to december, with december as top of the year.
So, to conclude this posting, we here a VMguru.nl wish you all a very succesfull and interesting 2010. We hope to see more of you on our site as we continu to do what we think we do best: being creative, inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun!
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Hits of unieke bezoekers?
translation: “Hits or unique visitors?”
Hits of unieke bezoekers?
translation: “Hits or unique visitors?”
“So, all in all, 2009 was a pretty succesfull year for VMGuru.nl. December displayed a new record too. We passed the 1.5 million hits per month mark! This is more than 600% above the amount of hits we had in january! Needless to say, we are very happy to see so many people on our site (and a bit proud too, tbh :) ) I made a little statistic to show you how we did in 2009. It displays the amount of hits per month in 2009 from january to december, with december as top of the year.”
I think it’s clear..
“So, all in all, 2009 was a pretty succesfull year for VMGuru.nl. December displayed a new record too. We passed the 1.5 million hits per month mark! This is more than 600% above the amount of hits we had in january! Needless to say, we are very happy to see so many people on our site (and a bit proud too, tbh :) ) I made a little statistic to show you how we did in 2009. It displays the amount of hits per month in 2009 from january to december, with december as top of the year.”
I think it’s clear..
Wat is de waarde daarvan? Ik bijvoorbeeld bij mij in December de hits omhoog gaan met 300.000 maar het aantal unieke bezoekers licht dalen door de vakantie. Ik kijk persoonlijk nooit naar hits, Views/unique visits zegt veel meer. Bij hits heb je bijvoorbeeld google zitten die elke pagina indexed.
translation: “What is the value of this? In my case for example the hits in December went up with 300.00, but the number of unique visiters were going down slightly because of the holidays. I myself never look at hits, Views/unique visits tell more. With hits you also have things like Google indexing every page”.
Wat is de waarde daarvan? Ik bijvoorbeeld bij mij in December de hits omhoog gaan met 300.000 maar het aantal unieke bezoekers licht dalen door de vakantie. Ik kijk persoonlijk nooit naar hits, Views/unique visits zegt veel meer. Bij hits heb je bijvoorbeeld google zitten die elke pagina indexed.
translation: “What is the value of this? In my case for example the hits in December went up with 300.00, but the number of unique visiters were going down slightly because of the holidays. I myself never look at hits, Views/unique visits tell more. With hits you also have things like Google indexing every page”.
The “unique visits” show the same trending, only with lower numbers. On the other hand, revisiting users are not taken into account, but they are important to the popularity of the site
These are two different indicators that, in our case, state the same. The indici by Google don’t augment when the popularity does. They are constants in the variable’s total. I could also state “total webtraffic in kb’s” or “pageviews”. All of those indicators show the same trend.
Everyone looks at the indicator he/she chooses. I don’t see the point of this discussion, really..
The “unique visits” show the same trending, only with lower numbers. On the other hand, revisiting users are not taken into account, but they are important to the popularity of the site
These are two different indicators that, in our case, state the same. The indici by Google don’t augment when the popularity does. They are constants in the variable’s total. I could also state “total webtraffic in kb’s” or “pageviews”. All of those indicators show the same trend.
Everyone looks at the indicator he/she chooses. I don’t see the point of this discussion, really..
Congratulations with your new record! Well done and continue with the good work. Happy new year for all of you.
Congratulations with your new record! Well done and continue with the good work. Happy new year for all of you.
@Duncan: To answer your question. True hits, aren’t representative for the absolute numbers of visitors but for the growth during 2009 all numbers show the same.
In 2009 we had:
– 264.720 visits from 1363 in 01-09 to 367.083 in 12-09.
– 42.441 unique vistors from 987 in 01-09 to 8700 in 12-09
– 2.6M page views from 87.000 in 01-09 to 367.083 in 12-09
– 486 GB traffic from 6 GB in 01-09 to 63 GB in 12-09
Pretty nice numbers if I say so myself and a huge increase during the year.
For blogs like your own or for instance Eric Sloof’s NTPro.nl these may not be significant but for a starting blog I think it’s impressive, don’t you agree?
@Duncan: To answer your question. True hits, aren’t representative for the absolute numbers of visitors but for the growth during 2009 all numbers show the same.
In 2009 we had:
– 264.720 visits from 1363 in 01-09 to 367.083 in 12-09.
– 42.441 unique vistors from 987 in 01-09 to 8700 in 12-09
– 2.6M page views from 87.000 in 01-09 to 367.083 in 12-09
– 486 GB traffic from 6 GB in 01-09 to 63 GB in 12-09
Pretty nice numbers if I say so myself and a huge increase during the year.
For blogs like your own or for instance Eric Sloof’s NTPro.nl these may not be significant but for a starting blog I think it’s impressive, don’t you agree?