Weekend Traffic
I still remember the first day I bought domains for traffic. Back then I had just a clutch of names but when I finally had the light-bulb moment and got the model, I ran out and registered 1000 of the best traffic names I could find unreg'd.. I had my web-host activate them and bam, the traffic started flowing. It was a Tuesday.. I remember thinking "Wow.. wait till the weekend when all these folks are home and have time to surf the web!"
Boy was I naive. Nobody surfs the Web on the weekend. Monday is the biggest traffic day for most domainers because Monday is a working day and the majority of the Internet population surfs at work. Apparently I was too conscientious an employee. I actually worked at work.
You can see the AM rush as North America comes online and millions of people fire up their browsers. My busiest hours are between 10 and noon in the North American timezones.. Up to 20 visits a second for hours on end. It's cool. Midnight sucks.. we get about 7 visits a second during the witching hour.
I have been seeing a smoothing of the band over recent years. On a relative percentage basis, the MRTG spikes are not as pronounced as they used to be. These mounds used to look a lot more like pine trees. I think we'll live to see the day when they look like speed-bumps, as people are online pretty much all the time..
"I think we'll live to see the day when they look like speed-bumps, as people are online pretty much all the time.."
Sadly...I think am already one of these people...LOL
Good info...thanks Frank.
Peace,
Dan
***FS*** Ha ha .. I feel your pain :)
Posted by: Dan | June 16, 2007 at 12:37 PM
>>> Up to 20 visits a second for hours on end. It's cool. <<<
G'day Frank,
Can you cite some of those domains names ?
Charley
***FS*** That's on all of them Charley The only single name I know of that consistently gets more than 20 visits a second is Google.com
Posted by: | June 16, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Frank,
Do you find it very slow on holidays and holiday weekends as well? I'm like people please go back to work!
***FS*** yes I do.
Posted by: William Brister | June 16, 2007 at 01:20 PM
The other interesting thing on that chart is that the peaks are higher during the work week mornings, but the dips are barely lower at all during the weekends.
Posted by: DP | June 16, 2007 at 02:26 PM
The troughs are filling up as China and India get connected.
Those with a balanced global portfolio will be flat line 30 per second in a few years.
(Sorry - obligatory IDN post). Heh heh.
***FS*** Ha! IDNers welcome here
Posted by: Drewbert | June 16, 2007 at 02:56 PM
Thank for the info Frank.
I was actually going to use your ask a question thread this morning to see if you noticed a decrease in traffic over the weekends as well.
Posted by: Sandy McFadden | June 16, 2007 at 03:29 PM
Hello Frank,
I have noticed that especially over the last year that the 4-10 PM weekday traffic has picked up and weekend traffic is not as weak as it used to be - especially Sundays. Various Sundays stats have been explosive for no purpose I can identify. Your explaination of more, generalized use is the only reason I can see for the increased traffic.
I can't complain. :)
Posted by: Johnny B. Good | June 16, 2007 at 03:54 PM
Thank the Lord for all those wallstreeters watching porn between trades!
Some quick numbers...
20*60= 1200 uniques/minute
1200*60= 72000 uniques/hour
72000*24= 1,728,000 uniques a day.
1,728,000 / 300,000= 5.76 uniques a day per site.
NOW I am feeling better. All I need to do is buy another 299,000 names. So easy... NOT.
Posted by: Robert | June 16, 2007 at 04:16 PM