Yakezie.com - Topic: Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 Mark D. Cook on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p66055 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p66055 Mon-Wed are my busiest. Into the weekend it slows down whether I publish a post or not. 

]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:46:56 +0000 Edward Antrobus on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p65861 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p65861 My busiest day seems to be friday. My theory is because it is one of the days I post and also because people are using Friday to catch up on posts they didn't have time to read during the week.

 

Saturday & Sunday alternate between being my slowest day.  Besides the weekend, I always seem to have a dip in traffic on Wednesdays.

 

Now for the food blog, 99% of traffic is organic search, and seems to be pretty steady throughout the week.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:33:54 +0000 Kay Lynn Akers on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p65854 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p65854 Saturday is my slowest day by far.  I know I'm not surfing the web that day and figure others aren't either...

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:14:00 +0000 AverageJoe on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p65303 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/page-2/#p65303 We're just starting to see trends at our fairly new blog (4 1/2 months). Thursday we don't post, so I'm beginning to see a drop that day. Saturday is also my slowest day. Monday and Tuesday we rock. I'm not sure if it's because of our weekly Monday topic or just generally a good day. From what I'm reading here, it appears to be all of the above.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:05:06 +0000 Pam at MoneyTrail on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65235 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65235 Tuesdays and Saturdays are my slowest.  Mondays and Fridays are my best.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:05:15 +0000 Daisy on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65229 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65229 Interesting! It seems as if Saturdays are most people's slowest day (not all, though). I find Tuesday to be wierdly slow for me - Mondays definitely seem the busiest!

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:43:07 +0000 jana on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65191 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65191 My busiest day varies from week to week but Tuesdays and Saturdays are usually my slowest. Tuesdays are when I post my money tune rather than a whole post so that's expected. Saturdays are also not a surprise. 

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:14:12 +0000 Sustainable PF on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65143 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65143 Thx - clear - was just hoping there was a quick win :)

Van Beek @ Stock Trend Investing said:

Sustainable PF said:

How do I get percentages by day of the week?  Is it in Analytics?  Really interested to find out!

I used the following approach with Google Analytics. You can not get it directly, thus you need to export some data. (maybe there is a much simpler way, but this is what I have done; sorry if it is too detailed)

- Take in GA a period of the last 16 weeks (start date is e.g. a Monday and end-date is a Sunday).

- Go to the "visits" or "unique visitors" info and make sure that you see the charts by day (not hour, week or month).

- Export the data to Excel. You get a long list of dates and the number of visits/visitors in Excel.

- Put in the column behind the first record an indication for what day that is (e.g. Mon, or Tue etc.)

- Do the same for all the records so that you have the day of the week indication in each row (I hope you use the auto-fill function after you have done the first few).

- Sort all the data in the the 3 columns (date/visits/day) by the 3rd column (day of the week).

- Now all the data is grouped by day of the week. Sum up the visits per day of the week and calculate what that is as percentage of the total visits for all the days of the week.

 

Success. Hope this is clear.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:39 +0000 Van Beek on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65141 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65141 Sustainable PF said:

How do I get percentages by day of the week?  Is it in Analytics?  Really interested to find out!

I used the following approach with Google Analytics. You can not get it directly, thus you need to export some data. (maybe there is a much simpler way, but this is what I have done; sorry if it is too detailed)

- Take in GA a period of the last 16 weeks (start date is e.g. a Monday and end-date is a Sunday).

- Go to the "visits" or "unique visitors" info and make sure that you see the charts by day (not hour, week or month).

- Export the data to Excel. You get a long list of dates and the number of visits/visitors in Excel.

- Put in the column behind the first record an indication for what day that is (e.g. Mon, or Tue etc.)

- Do the same for all the records so that you have the day of the week indication in each row (I hope you use the auto-fill function after you have done the first few).

- Sort all the data in the the 3 columns (date/visits/day) by the 3rd column (day of the week).

- Now all the data is grouped by day of the week. Sum up the visits per day of the week and calculate what that is as percentage of the total visits for all the days of the week.

 

Success. Hope this is clear.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:31:30 +0000 Sustainable PF on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65135 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65135 How do I get percentages by day of the week?  Is it in Analytics?  Really interested to find out!

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:03:29 +0000 MoneyIsTheRoot on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65127 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65127 Saturday is my slowest day as well... Sunday used to be another one, but weekends have picked up for me overall.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:05:19 +0000 Glen Craig on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65123 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65123 Mondays/Tuesdays are busiest while Saturday is slowest.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:45:19 +0000 MoneyBeagle on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65118 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65118 Weekends are slow but I rarely put a weekend post up unless my roundup gets bumped from Friday to Saturday, which happens every now and then.  For me, my biggest reason on not posting much on weekends is that comments seem to fall off a cliff and that's a pretty important metric for me.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:19:12 +0000 jaicatalano on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65110 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65110 Van Beek @ Stock Trend Investing said:

This is how the traffic for Stock Trend Investing is divided on average over the different days of the week:

Mon 15%
Tue 17%
Wed 17%
Thu 15%
Fri 14%
Sat 10%
Sun 12%

 

Tuesday and Wednesday are the busiest days. Saturday is the day with the lowest traffic.


Are you guys measuring traffic by google analytics? 

 

How do you guys get the specific numbers?

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:30:30 +0000 sooverthis on Slowest/Busiest Day for Blog Traffic https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65106 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/slowestbusiest-day-for-blog-traffic/#p65106 Okay, that chart was so super cool, I had to see how my percentages played out. This is for the month of January:

  • S - 11%
  • M - 15%
  • T - 12%
  • W - 19%
  • Th - 12%
  • F - 21%
  • S - 10%
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