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ppentertainments
11-03-2009, 08:19 AM
How many hits do you get to your website per day ?? I am trying to find out what figure I should be aiming for.

At present I am listed on a lot of places (mainly free) but bookings by email is very low, so am investing a bit money and time in improving my web presence but need to know what to aim for.

The other strange thing is that people who do book due to my website, phone me as opposed to e-mail me, yet I know of others who do most business online.

Vectis
11-03-2009, 08:45 AM
How many hits do you get to your website per day ??

There are many days when I get none. Or just the odd bot.

There are days when I get several hundred.

I average about 110 gigs a year, which is where I want to be.



The other strange thing is that people who do book due to my website, phone me as opposed to e-mail me, yet I know of others who do most business online.

That'll be because of your page header - a phone number in huge font!!

People don't like to think. If they have to construct an email, many would rather pick up the phone (even if it is a dreaded MOBILE!!!! - you should think about changing or masking that with an 0800/0845).

Offer them a variety of methods - an enquiry form, a live chat option if you're near a computer most days, a quote generator where they just have to tag their name and number on the end, those sorts of things.

Of all the contact methods I offer, phone is definitely the least used.

rob1963
11-03-2009, 09:12 AM
How many hits do you get to your website per day ??

Just under 100.


I am trying to find out what figure I should be aiming for.

I think your priorities are wrong there.

At the end of the day it doesnt matter how many hits your website gets. Much more important is how many enquiries you get from those hits, and most important of all is how many bookings you actually end up with.


The other strange thing is that people who do book due to my website, phone me as opposed to e-mail me, yet I know of others who do most business online.

You're lucky that most enquirers phone you rather than email you, because it's much easier to get a higher conversion rate when speaking to someone on the telephone rather than just responding to an email.

I hardly get ANY phone calls. I'd say that of all the enquiries from my website, at least 90% come by email and less than 10% by phone. I don't understand this, as my phone number & email have equal billing on my website.

:shrug:

Tom
11-03-2009, 09:34 AM
I get about 80 genuine uk hits a day which is rather low. The most I have had is 186 and to be honest, I haven't really done a lot of advertising.

I have also noticed that more people are finding me direct than using a database website, which I would guess that people are passing on my details on to others, which is good I think.

Once my new website is up and running I will then spend x amount on advertising.

ppentertainments
11-03-2009, 10:01 AM
That'll be because of your page header - a phone number in huge font!!

People don't like to think. If they have to construct an email, many would rather pick up the phone (even if it is a dreaded MOBILE!!!! - you should think about changing or masking that with an 0800/0845).



The header was recently changed deliberately. I do prefer people to phone me if I am honest, as I do find I can often 'convert' a £100 enquiry in to a successful more than £100 booking. Even when I did not have the number splashed on the top, people would phone up my web designers number at the bottom of the page :confused: , they seem to look for a number and ring it basically.

I am currently looking at either an 0845 or 0800 number. I don't want to use my home phone number as I find often people phone round and book the first available. I have lost quite a few bookings where they have phoned me at a gig for example, I have missed the call or answered and said would phone back. Phone the next morning and they have booked someone.

if poss could you pm me the website of the company you use for your phone number, have tried to search but cannot find still. :beer1:

Just to put my OP into perspective, I am averaging 8 hits a day at present :eek: . I do get enough bookings through other means but this is one avenue I need to increase.

Vectis
11-03-2009, 10:24 AM
PM sent but for anyone else who's interested I use www.skycomuk.com

The setup charge was under £20 for an 0800 diverting to mobile. On their light user scheme I'm charged £1 a month "line rental" then calls per minute on the divert. My typical bill is £4-5 a month and my worst-ever was £9. If it looks like being a long one, call 'em back on a cheaper tariff!

ppentertainments
11-03-2009, 10:30 AM
PM received, many thanks.

Mark Wild
11-03-2009, 10:55 AM
Just under 100.

At say 90 a day in a 30 day month your around 2700 "visits" a month, thats really good. I'd be hoping to convert alot of business from that.

Since i started my online campaign my visits have ranged from 1 to 30 per day, the higher end being when I first register on a site and other discos checking out the "new kid on the block". I hasten to add out of my total visits since December, 69% of them have come from sponsored listings, 18% Referring sites and 13% direct traffic. I'm a new business so I'm building my web based enquiries best way I can, but google cpc & organic massively outweigh all other avenues for me personally so far. Be nice to get just under 100 visits a day without even running an adwords campaign.



There are many days when I get none. Or just the odd bot.

There are days when I get several hundred.


Your a web smart guy VV, 0 - several hundred is a massive difference in daily hits, why do you think 1 day you'd get 0 and the next a few 100?

Vectis
11-03-2009, 11:07 AM
Your a web smart guy VV, 0 - several hundred is a massive difference in daily hits, why do you think 1 day you'd get 0 and the next a few 100?

Same reason that "physical" enquiries come in waves. Usually triggered by things like payday = we can now afford the next item on the wedding checklist, school/bank holidays = folks with more time on their hands etc..

I think the massive difference in my case is explained to some extent by the amount of content on my site. Visitors rarely turn up and look at one or two pages - they tend to hover around for a while.

0 days don't worry me - I see the same trends "elsewhere". It just means tomorrow might be a busy one :)

Mark Wild
11-03-2009, 12:11 PM
Same reason that "physical" enquiries come in waves. Usually triggered by things like payday = we can now afford the next item on the wedding checklist, school/bank holidays = folks with more time on their hands etc..

I think the massive difference in my case is explained to some extent by the amount of content on my site. Visitors rarely turn up and look at one or two pages - they tend to hover around for a while.

0 days don't worry me - I see the same trends "elsewhere". It just means tomorrow might be a busy one :)

I must admit your website is pretty awesome and one I aspire to :D

ppentertainments
11-03-2009, 12:22 PM
I must admit your website is pretty awesome and one I aspire to :D

Will second that.

Vectis
11-03-2009, 01:09 PM
Chaps I'm humbled :o

It's nothing special - just had a lot of thought put into content and thankfully I've got great pictures to back up the words. Trial and error over the years has told me what to leave in / take out.

Anyway, we're way OT!! :p :p

ppentertainments
11-03-2009, 08:33 PM
Woo Hoo, 38 hits today :) , 29 from this thread though :(

Mark Wild
11-03-2009, 09:17 PM
Woo Hoo, 38 hits today :) , 29 from this thread though :(

:lol:

Tony Scott
11-03-2009, 09:39 PM
Here's my stats for January, what's the difference between hits and visits?? :confused:

Is this any good??

Monthly Statistics for January 2009:
Total Hits 25094
Total Files 18152
Total Pages 4095
Total Visits 1379
Total KBytes 998413
Total Unique Sites 616
Total Unique URLs 174
Total Unique Referrers 112
Total Unique User Agents 195

Daily Average for month:
Hits per Hour 33
Hits per Day 809
Files per Day 585
Pages per Day 132
Visits per Day 44

Johnny
11-03-2009, 10:02 PM
Here's my stats for January, what's the difference between hits and visits?? :confused:

Is this any good??

Monthly Statistics for January 2009:
Total Hits 25094
Total Files 18152
Total Pages 4095
Total Visits 1379
Total KBytes 998413
Total Unique Sites 616
Total Unique URLs 174
Total Unique Referrers 112
Total Unique User Agents 195

Daily Average for month:
Hits per Hour 33
Hits per Day 809
Files per Day 585
Pages per Day 132
Visits per Day 44

What program do you use to find out how many hits you are getting?

Vectis
11-03-2009, 10:43 PM
Pages per Day 132
Visits per Day 44

Visits is number of visitors - there's usually a rule somewhere that defines the minimum gap between visits from the same IP being counted as two rather than one visit - I think mine's set to half an hour.

Pages is number of pages viewed. So 44 visitors, 132 pages = each visitor is looking at 3 pages on average.

Everything else is just noise - it represents images viewed, bot traffic, all sorts of nonsense.

Tony Scott
11-03-2009, 11:11 PM
What program do you use to find out how many hits you are getting?

My stats are provided by my hosting provider(Telivo), I just log in to my Control Panel and get about 5 pages of stats (which makes my head hurt a bit! :D).

I think my site must work quite well coz around 70-80% of my enquiries come via email and around 80% of the enquiries go on to book us.


Visits is number of visitors - there's usually a rule somewhere that defines the minimum gap between visits from the same IP being counted as two rather than one visit - I think mine's set to half an hour.

Pages is number of pages viewed. So 44 visitors, 132 pages = each visitor is looking at 3 pages on average.

Everything else is just noise - it represents images viewed, bot traffic, all sorts of nonsense.

Got it! :)

markthedoc
20-03-2009, 02:22 PM
I get about 80 genuine uk hits a day which is rather low. The most I have had is 186 and to be honest, I haven't really done a lot of advertising.

I have also noticed that more people are finding me direct than using a database website, which I would guess that people are passing on my details on to others, which is good I think.

Once my new website is up and running I will then spend x amount on advertising.

Is that visits or hits Tom?

If it's visits, that's really good for a mobile disco site.

CRAZY K
20-03-2009, 02:50 PM
How many hits do you get to your website per day ?? I am trying to find out what figure I should be aiming for.

At present I am listed on a lot of places (mainly free) but bookings by email is very low, so am investing a bit money and time in improving my web presence but need to know what to aim for.

The other strange thing is that people who do book due to my website, phone me as opposed to e-mail me, yet I know of others who do most business online.

I dont believe in using hits as an indicator--the level of ACTUAL enquiries is the main guide for me---followed by actual business followed by payment.:D

We get about 5 to 8 a day ( enquiries) overall in a specialist market.

CRAZY K