WinCustomize: Where do they come from?
Friday, April 5, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Ever wonder where WinCustomize's traffic comes from?
Here's a graph of March's referral statistics:
https://www.stardock.com/temp/mar02.gif
Bookmarks are return visitors plus people who visit because of Stardock's programs.
Stardock and WindowBlids.net are direct links from those pages. Those referrals used to go to skinz.org before WinCustomize was launched so you can imagine the impact that probably had on skinz in those days.
Here's a graph of March's referral statistics:
https://www.stardock.com/temp/mar02.gif
Bookmarks are return visitors plus people who visit because of Stardock's programs.
Stardock and WindowBlids.net are direct links from those pages. Those referrals used to go to skinz.org before WinCustomize was launched so you can imagine the impact that probably had on skinz in those days.
deadman67
Reply #2 Friday, April 5, 2002 9:23 AM
Reply #2 Friday, April 5, 2002 9:23 AM
i keep WC in my bookmarks 24-7 so even when i go to format my hard drive i'll zip all my bookmarks and email them to myself so WC is always saved so your little graphics pie of were all the traffic comes from sounds about right i could be wrong.
craeonics
Reply #3 Friday, April 5, 2002 10:02 AM
Reply #3 Friday, April 5, 2002 10:02 AM
All skin sites are in my bookmarks. But you can't track bookmarks (I think) bacause they have no referrer, so the bookmark label is actually "no referrer" then, meaning "not coming from another site", which includes typing in the url.
migellito
Reply #4 Friday, April 5, 2002 10:29 AM
Reply #4 Friday, April 5, 2002 10:29 AM
i wonder how many humorous/disturbing search requests result in wc popping up.. ala http://searchrequests.weblogs.com/
might be amusing to post some
[warning.. the url above contains some search requests from people who were looking, rather bluntly, for prurient material.. on the internet?! no... surely not...]
might be amusing to post some
[warning.. the url above contains some search requests from people who were looking, rather bluntly, for prurient material.. on the internet?! no... surely not...]
Frogboy
Reply #5 Friday, April 5, 2002 12:58 PM
Reply #5 Friday, April 5, 2002 12:58 PM
Bookmarks can mean many things:
1) Someone just typed the URL in
2) Someone used their favorites menu
3) Someone clicked on a link in a program
That's giong to always be your biggest chunk.
1) Someone just typed the URL in
2) Someone used their favorites menu
3) Someone clicked on a link in a program
That's giong to always be your biggest chunk.
Firestorm
Reply #6 Friday, April 5, 2002 4:36 PM
Reply #6 Friday, April 5, 2002 4:36 PM
I keep WC in my favorites folder, so I hardly come here through other skin sites. It's usually one of the first three sites I visit when I get online.
Frogboy
Reply #7 Friday, April 5, 2002 6:19 PM
Reply #7 Friday, April 5, 2002 6:19 PM
Referrals from other sites do matter a lot as they determine future growth really.
jcg
Reply #8 Saturday, April 6, 2002 9:57 AM
Reply #8 Saturday, April 6, 2002 9:57 AM
WC is the first place I go when I get on my computer. I wonder if putting a favorite in the startup folder would work.....
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Reply #1 Friday, April 5, 2002 6:36 AM
I was reading an article recently, and they say that more surfers now type in the URL themself manually or use a bookmark to go to known sites as opposed to be refered by other sites or a search engine.
In 1999, around 30% of the people typed the URL or used a bookmark, compared to 55% in 2001. Apparently, it's because there are less and less novices on the web and more people know where they want to go now.