Well today for the first time since our big move from vBulletin to Xenforo I have been able to look at our stats in Google Analytics.
Some interesting fact and figures and thought I would share them with you.
First off (and this is a major one) our traffic is DOWN 52% since the big move. This is something I expected and most of it being caused by the search indexes taking forever to re-index the site. In addition I messed up something (else) and had many of the redirects to the new website set to 302 (Temporarily Moved) instead of a 301 (Permanently Moved) I just corrected this issue this morning. Thanks to the user who noticed this and emailed me. But with that said traffic is increasing each day, I figure in another two months or so at this rate we will be back to our old numbers.
Ad revenue is still down and has declined more since the move. But over the last few days it has started a slow climb up, I hope it keeps going up.
I don't know if I want to touch the ads, as I am happy with the positions now, but I was just given instructions how to use DFP (DoubleClick for publisher) to work with XenForo in the current ad locations. My big worry is that it will take Google Adsense forever to relearn the ad positions.
But some (well actually a LOT of) GOOD NEWS...
On the old software the Bounce Rate was over 70%, meaning that most people would come the the site and then leave without looking at another page here on the site. On the new software our bouncerate is now 21.3% and Analytics is reporting this is a 75% drop in our bounce rate.
The Avg Session Duration before the move was 2 minutes and 23 seconds. Now the Avg session duration since the move has climbed up to 12 minutes and 42 seconds! That is 10 minutes HIGHER then before. This is a VERY GOOD THING! People are spending more time here and its climbing every day!
Now onto some fun things...
The speed on the new software is night and day when compared to the old software! Take a look at the load times on vBulletin and then the load times on the new software.
Here is a list of speeds reported by browsers when accessing the site with ads loading. These numbers should decline as all ads are now being served by iframe and no longer affect page loading speed.
Some more nice times. Love that fall off after we left the old software behind.
That's a listing of browsers you guys are using here at SatelliteGuys. (Totals are just for this month) And the sessions listed are unique sessions.
Finally above we see the operating systems you guys are using.
For those wondering further break down...
Windows versions
Windows 7 (62.17% of all windows users)
Windows 8.1 (16.64 of all windows users)
Windows XP ( 10.31% of all windows users)
Windows Vista (6.05% of all windows users)
Windows 8 (4.74% of all windows users)
Sever 2003 (0.28% of all windows users)
2000 (0.01% of all windows users)
NT (0.01% of all windows users)
98 (0.01% of all windows users) EEEK!!!!
On the iOS side of things
7.1.1 is used by almost 70% of iOS users
7.1
7.0.4
7.0.6
6.1.3
5.1.1
7.0.3
8.0 (1.30% are using the Beta here)
7.0
7.02
For Android its...
4.4.2 (45.6 %)
4.3
4.1.2
4.2.2
4.0.4
4.1.1
2.3.6
4.0.3
4.4.3
For Mac...
10.9 (67.47%)
10.6 (12.16%
10.7 (8.06%)
10.8 (7.31%)
10.10 (1.78% are using the beta)
10.5
10.4
PPC 10.4
PPC 10.5
The Top 5 most landed on Pages (from Search Engines) this past month
#1 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/fifa-world-cup-brazil-2014-with-dish-network.335520/
#2 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/right-now-i-hate-directv-error-code-775.290325/
#3 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/thr...portes-network-hd-part-of-choice-xtra.307307/
#4 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/dtv-does-not-qualify-for-watchespn.293660/
#5 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/forums/free-to-air-fta-discussion.24/
Top 5 - Traffic by Country
#1 - USA (68.42%)
#2 - Canada (4.18%)
#3 - United Kindom (2.85%)
#4 - Brazil (1.90%)
#5 - India (1.52%)
Top 5 Traffic Sources
#1 Google - 45.32%
#2 Direct - 44.17%
#3 Bing - 3.93%
#4 - Yahoo - 3.16%
#5 - SatelliteGuys.COM - 0.20% (We closed down SatelliteGuys.COM and all traffic is now forward to .US)
Anyways thought I would share those numbers with you... Some of them I didn't like but expected... but it looks like we are on the road to recovery.
Some interesting fact and figures and thought I would share them with you.
First off (and this is a major one) our traffic is DOWN 52% since the big move. This is something I expected and most of it being caused by the search indexes taking forever to re-index the site. In addition I messed up something (else) and had many of the redirects to the new website set to 302 (Temporarily Moved) instead of a 301 (Permanently Moved) I just corrected this issue this morning. Thanks to the user who noticed this and emailed me. But with that said traffic is increasing each day, I figure in another two months or so at this rate we will be back to our old numbers.
Ad revenue is still down and has declined more since the move. But over the last few days it has started a slow climb up, I hope it keeps going up.
I don't know if I want to touch the ads, as I am happy with the positions now, but I was just given instructions how to use DFP (DoubleClick for publisher) to work with XenForo in the current ad locations. My big worry is that it will take Google Adsense forever to relearn the ad positions.But some (well actually a LOT of) GOOD NEWS...
On the old software the Bounce Rate was over 70%, meaning that most people would come the the site and then leave without looking at another page here on the site. On the new software our bouncerate is now 21.3% and Analytics is reporting this is a 75% drop in our bounce rate.
The Avg Session Duration before the move was 2 minutes and 23 seconds. Now the Avg session duration since the move has climbed up to 12 minutes and 42 seconds! That is 10 minutes HIGHER then before. This is a VERY GOOD THING! People are spending more time here and its climbing every day!
Now onto some fun things...
The speed on the new software is night and day when compared to the old software! Take a look at the load times on vBulletin and then the load times on the new software.
Here is a list of speeds reported by browsers when accessing the site with ads loading. These numbers should decline as all ads are now being served by iframe and no longer affect page loading speed.
Some more nice times. Love that fall off after we left the old software behind.
That's a listing of browsers you guys are using here at SatelliteGuys. (Totals are just for this month) And the sessions listed are unique sessions.
Finally above we see the operating systems you guys are using.
For those wondering further break down...
Windows versions
Windows 7 (62.17% of all windows users)
Windows 8.1 (16.64 of all windows users)
Windows XP ( 10.31% of all windows users)
Windows Vista (6.05% of all windows users)
Windows 8 (4.74% of all windows users)
Sever 2003 (0.28% of all windows users)
2000 (0.01% of all windows users)
NT (0.01% of all windows users)
98 (0.01% of all windows users) EEEK!!!!
On the iOS side of things
7.1.1 is used by almost 70% of iOS users
7.1
7.0.4
7.0.6
6.1.3
5.1.1
7.0.3
8.0 (1.30% are using the Beta here)
7.0
7.02
For Android its...
4.4.2 (45.6 %)
4.3
4.1.2
4.2.2
4.0.4
4.1.1
2.3.6
4.0.3
4.4.3
For Mac...
10.9 (67.47%)
10.6 (12.16%
10.7 (8.06%)
10.8 (7.31%)
10.10 (1.78% are using the beta)
10.5
10.4
PPC 10.4
PPC 10.5
The Top 5 most landed on Pages (from Search Engines) this past month
#1 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/fifa-world-cup-brazil-2014-with-dish-network.335520/
#2 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/right-now-i-hate-directv-error-code-775.290325/
#3 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/thr...portes-network-hd-part-of-choice-xtra.307307/
#4 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/dtv-does-not-qualify-for-watchespn.293660/
#5 http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/forums/free-to-air-fta-discussion.24/
Top 5 - Traffic by Country
#1 - USA (68.42%)
#2 - Canada (4.18%)
#3 - United Kindom (2.85%)
#4 - Brazil (1.90%)
#5 - India (1.52%)
Top 5 Traffic Sources
#1 Google - 45.32%
#2 Direct - 44.17%
#3 Bing - 3.93%
#4 - Yahoo - 3.16%
#5 - SatelliteGuys.COM - 0.20% (We closed down SatelliteGuys.COM and all traffic is now forward to .US)
Anyways thought I would share those numbers with you... Some of them I didn't like but expected... but it looks like we are on the road to recovery.
I thought Xenforo was supposed to improve the situation! At the current rate of growth, how long until you get to your previous peak on vBulletin? IIRC, traffic (and revenues?) were off 50% since last year.
I bet TheKrell caused all that! 
