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Monday, November 2, 2009

Housekeeping Highest Traffic Ever for thestranger.com

Posted by Tim Keck on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM

Last month according to Google Analytics, we had over one million absolute unique visitors.

That’s over a million people: readers, commenters, trolls, lovers and haters, lovers who hate haters, fundies, foodies, and people who will cut you for using the word “foodies.” People who don’t give a shit and people who care way too much. People looking for a woman seeking a man, people looking for a movie about GI Joe dolls, people who have a question for a city council candidate about a sidewalk. People scouring the internet for the term “horse fucking” at three in the morning Omaha time. People who meant to go to thestronger.com.

We’ve hit one million absolute uniques in a month only once before, and that was this past June. And I was going to write a post like this back then, but something must have come up. It was June. People are busy in June. Well, this month we had even more traffic than June, so the hell with June. October is the new June.

Thanks, one million people, for intentionally (or unintentionally) visiting our collection of internet web pages. Without all of you, the world (and Seattle in particular) would seem like it’s weirdly empty. People who escaped thestranger.com rapture would walk the streets thinking, “Where the fuck is everyone?” It could happen. Remember when all those people who used Friendster just disappeared? Like that.

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So much for the common troll refrain of "ur alexa rankings r down, u guise suck".

Posted by Baconcat on November 2, 2009 at 12:12 PM

I was gonna mention Alexa.com too... wtf is up with the Pakistani and Indian stranger readers?!?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on November 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM

According to Alexa the Stranger has the 3,695th most popular website in the country (11,344 in the world).

Yesterday 0.016% of internet users on the globe visited this website, up 43% over the past three months.

Did you know 5.3% of visitors on the Strangers website are from India and only 3.1% are from Canada.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thestrange…

Posted by Original-er Andy on November 2, 2009 at 12:31 PM

How many unique visitors are spamming us with movie download websites over on Questionland?

Posted by Mahtli69 on November 2, 2009 at 12:37 PM

About 30-40 of those are the sociology students running "Project Loveschild".

Posted by Baconcat on November 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM

Just what qualifies as a "unique hit" anyway? Is that every time I visit the site? (If so, your numbers are badly skewed.)

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM

Gosh "5280" - I don't know. Why don't you click on the link attached to the words "absolute unique visitors." It takes you to a page that tells you:

http://www.google.com/support/googleanal…

Posted by John Galt on November 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM

Fifty-Two-Eighty,

Happy Birth-month.

Posted by kim in portland

on November 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM

Well now I'm impressed. Still waiting for my kiss, though.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM

It's all due to your courageous local election coverage and the combined weight of gay pit bulls for Jesus and Stoners for Stonehenge that put you over the top.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 2, 2009 at 1:40 PM

@ #2
When I read your comments, I got excited. So, I checked it out and I found that, sadly, it's not true.
The thing is, Alexa and Compete are OK for getting a general idea about site traffic but not so great for getting very specific information.
In reality, traffic from India and Pakistan is quite small on thestranger.com. Canadian traffic is many, many times larger than either country. And Canadian traffic is less than 4% of the total (But #2 in Stranger traffic after the US).
Thanks guys for looking.

Posted by Tim Keck

on November 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM

That's because Canadians rule.

Probably due to the higher alcoholic content of beer, having more sex, and the sense of humor, Tim.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 2, 2009 at 2:25 PM

Congrads folks. You guys put in a shit load of good features into the site, glad it paid off.

Posted by biju on November 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM

Fifty-Two-Eighty,

Catch! X!

Posted by kim in portland

on November 2, 2009 at 3:05 PM

Thanks Biju!

Posted by Tim Keck

on November 2, 2009 at 3:29 PM

How come you know how to hyperlink and Constant is still trying to figure it out?

Posted by elenchos on November 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM

I feel that I played an important yet unacknowledged role in the triumph of Slog, but I'm disregarded here. As soon as my new Arabic keyboard gets here, I'm dumping you guys for thestronger.com. It looks like those bastards PAY.

Posted by Fnarf

on November 2, 2009 at 6:12 PM

Sometimes Seattle is weirdly empty cause of all the people like myself visiting the Slog and not visiting the streets. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GO OUTSIDE!

Posted by oldmanandthesea