Yesterday's blogdowntown
Friday, December 02, 2005, at 07:53AM
By Eric Richardson
blogdowntown got mentioned in the LA Times yesterday. It also had its strongest day of the last few weeks, with visits up 1/3 and page views up even a bit more. Whereas a normal day lately has had about 50% new visitors, yesterday that was up to 66%. I have to figure those numbers are connected.
Referrer numbers don't give the whole jump, though they do seem close to the new visitor jump. calendarlive.com and latimes.com together drove about 13% of visits yesterday.
Interestingly, you can also see the correlation looking at page views by hostname. Normally 60 - 70% of pages are served through blogdowntown.com, with the rest going through www.blogdowntown.com (which I never use, so that's just people making the broken assumption that web site = www). The Times used the www host, and yesterday that was closer to 50% of pages.