SwollenPickles looking back at 2008
Friday, December 26th, 2008
This is the time of year that people usually pump out the "...and that was the year that was" kind of stuff. I'm a lemming. So here's my contribution.
2008 was an interesting year. I managed to keep this site up and running without breaking it. I started up a couple of other sites, with varying levels of success, and I managed to make a little extra coin. In terms of traffic, 2008 was the best year ever.
Here are some of the key statistics for SwollenPickles.com in 2008:
- there were 281,814 unique visitors
- April 19 was the highest traffic day, with 6,678 unique visitors in the 24 hour period
- 52.78% of traffic came from referring sites, 40.59% from search engines, with the remainder from 'other'
- The most visited page was 'Lindsay Lohan with massive camel toe', with 62,095 unique visits for the year
- A majority of visitors came from the United States, followed by the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany
- The least visited pages included Shock Docs Channel 9, A quick lesson in marketing and promotions, Project Deep Impact, the sadly under rated, Naomi Robson - her finest moments on YouTube, and the borderline inappropriate The latest product from Apple - the all new iPad
- SwollenPickles.com made a grand total of $270.59US from Adsense
With only a couple of days of December left, it's time that I sat down and think about what goals I want to set (and achieve!) for 2009!
* All the statistics span 1 January 2008 to 18 December 2008, so it's not technically the entire 2008, but it's close enough.