Site Statistics for www.andrewhope.co.uk

LAST UPDATE : 02/01/23

Some people may be statistically minded, or genuinely curious just how much traffic my website slurps / generates. Or simply think I talk crap about my website traffic. As you can see the raw figures are here. I have no reason to lie. It gets me nowhere

This is the raw data from AW stats for users (non-robots)

As this is only a personal website I don't get particularly many visits, but month on month it has slowly been improving since I started the website and I'm always adding new content specifically for my MK5 Golf. Everytime I encounter a problem or need to fix something there's a topic goes in, it proves useful for if I need to work on my car again. I'm fairly impressed personally on how much traffic my website gets considering it's only a small personal site for me and my knowledge. The results are showing for me now, as I'm number 1 in google for certain search queries relating to MK5 Golf repairs and VW Golfs. My traffic improves month on month. I've updated this page with the newer statistics. Please note that 2016, I changed web host so lost a lot of data. As you can see however the traffic on my website has grown and continues to grow.

Breakdown of statistics for previous year 2022

• Average of ~2689 visitors per month
• Average of ~55,423 hits per month
• Average of ~3,467 page views per month
• Average of ~2.45GB downloaded data per month (I should note, my site is small and built around HTML, so focusses on speed over dynamic content). So this doesn't concern me

My site is developing year on year. I'm currently optimising it for mobile phone usage, and improving the menu design to make it more user friendly. Also I'm foccusing on improving SEO, reducing my bounce rates on the website to increase user viewing content. Additionally I'm focussing on generating more content and improving my adsense monitoring. I keep as much content as free on my site as possible. As I used to hate looking around for the information I needed. I do however have to make money somewhere

Fingers crossed in 2021, I'll be aiming for ~5000 visitors and around ~100,000 hits per month. Aim high, it's always doable. More and more of my content is being indexed by Google and I achieve higher rankings because I aim to make the content better and better as opposed to more and more. Statistical breakdown by year (if you don't want to read the below tables). I'll merge the data at some point, but for moment, can't be bothered

COMMENTS

In 2020 my site had two issues

a) Major downtime from my Webhost, I resulted in a Website Migration, so I lost traffic

b) Coronavirus impact, I lost a lot of traffic due to the outage.

As you can see however, my site has grown considerably. I hit a few #1 in Google Search, and a few featured snippets. I also had a good ranking for a while on a blog post. This increased my figures overall. My figures became a bit skewed as they're seperated between HTTP/HTTPS now, as the site hasn't migrated fully yet. You can see however, my site keeps growing.

If I can hit 1,000,000 in 2021 I'll be happy (I did, woop!)

I dropped traffic in 2022, I think this is because one of my popular articles fell out of #1 spot. I'm in competition with Volkswagen and other sites (blogs, forums) so it's usually quite hard to stay rank on this article

RAW DATA (Total Yearly)

Data Breakdown (Average Monthly)

2022

2021

2020 (Data up to 13/06/20)

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak/lockdown that happened in March, I noticed a down turn in traffic, so not expecting this years figures to be really good. As you can see the raw data is below, I couldn't figure out why my numbers were so rubbish then I thought about what had happened and it makes sense.

HTTPS DATA (2020)

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015 (I've taken this as a snapshot data (currently 14/09/15) where this is taken)