Search Engine Referral Stats
Inspired by Jeremy, here are my search engine referral statistics, with Google dominating heavily.
Included are every non-human edited website in the top 250 referrals. Ask is nonexistent, AOL is being beaten by Del.icio.us, MSN is being beaten by a ping server, and Bloglines is beating all Yahoo referrals. Google has five products on the list, all of which beat every other engine, save Yahoo. Google products take 79.44% of the list.
UPDATE: JR Conlin points out that while Google wins hands down on search referrals, Yahoo kills Google on total referrals, thanks to it having more than two highly-used services.
October Web Search Referral Statistics
I was looking at some updated stats for my web site and decided to plug the numbers into Excel so that I could more easily visualize the relationships. The chart below is one of several I produced. It shows the percentage of search referrals I can attr…
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On all of my sites, Google traffic is more than double Yahoo! traffic… including on my:
- blog
- goofy site with jokes and such
- personal Web site with my resume
- RIAA satire
- Lindy Hop (swing dancing) wiki
My blog tends to include a lot of techie stuff, but all the other stuff… pretty non-techie (the wiki is a wiki in back-end only, it looks like a regular site).
So I’m quite baffled, as you might imagine. Frankly, I’m suspecting that the market share cited by Y! and others is way off. I’d PREFER it to be a neck’n'neck race, frankly, because I love watching Google and Y! compete so closely (I think such strong competition is healthy for everyone!)
And in fact, I must cynically wonder whether this is the same reason why stats reported by various agencies also make this into such a close race. It’s just more engaging news-wise, eh?
Seriously, not only are all of *MY* sites G! dominated, but so are the sites of a handful of friends I’ve chatted with… including a dance site, a magician site, and other decidedly non-techie sites!
Very, very puzzling (and disconcerting).
Comment by Adam | October 24, 2005