The end-of-year analysis report for Neohide.com is finally here again. This time we try to be as comprehensive as possible and provide a much detailed report, with the help of Google Analytics, than the previous End-of-Year Statement Report for 2007. Besides the comprehensiveness of the report, we try to make it as simple as possible, in a way, we break it down into 4 different major components; that is,
- Total Number of Visitors
- Traffic Sources
- Map Overlay of Visitors
- Top Contents for 2008
As far as possible, we reveal some of the revenue information for NeoHide.com, but due to Google AdSense policy, we have to keep data privacy to a maximum.
Total Number of Visitors
The first category is the most important category of all time; traffic! Only with traffic, does it drives revenue. Hence, we take a look at how the performance of the site over the last 1 year for NeoHide.com.
The above figure denotes that the average value of visitors fluctuates about 300 on a daily basis. Along the way, there are a few peaks, but never hit beyond the 1,000 barrier. However, there is one that strikes over 3,000 visitors in the 4th quarter of 2008.
Generally, there is hardly much improvement shown in terms of growing trend, but the positive outlook that we can derive from here is quality positive content that the site is still able to generate, which hits the roof. The total number of visitors is probably not as much as what a lot of people expected, but it is definitely higher than the previous year.
Traffic Sources
One interesting information to note is where is the traffic source? Is it driven mainly by organic links, e.g. search engines, or direct links from other sites, or even perhaps direct link to reach the website. Here is the result.
Well, many thanks to the help of search engines, e.g. Google, MSN, Yahoo! or even others, more than 3/4 of the visitors were sent across by them. About 18% of the visitors come from referring sites and others from direct traffic and others, etc.
The distribution of the traffic sources is pretty good; as what I would expect. As long as the site doesn’t get in the bad books of the search engines, it does have a very healthy outlook for the next coming year, relying on organic traffics and links.
Map Overlay of Visitors
Where does Neohide.com visitors come from? Once again, let’s get the help from Google Analytics to show the way.
As depicted by the Map Overlay figure above, it is very apparent that the visitors mainly come from United States of America (US) and partially from United Kingdom (UK) and India. The site has originally focus to target the US market, hence it is without a doubt that the distribution of visitors is as shown.
Top Contents for 2008
Undoubtedly, this is probably the most interesting section of today’s post. At least, it will be interesting to know what are the top contents that really attracts the visitors in 2008.
Does the result amaze you? NeoHide has drawn a lot of attractions based on Ubuntu as its main pull factor. Nonetheless, for this case, the top 2 positions are about Ubuntu Desktop Effects. Surprisingly, the front page lies 5th in the position. So, it seems that our internal linking is far more stronger than its front cover. This will mean more work needs to be done to improve the front page.
Amongst others are side topics which also captured some interesting news, such as topless Cambridge student and Linux command tutorial, such as Tar.gz.
Closing Keynote for 2008
Year 2008 has been really promising and helpful to NeoHide.com; however, we cannot take things for granted. One significant improvement that we had done was to shift the entire site to run on the latest 6.x Drupal engine, as well as powering the site on the later PHP 5 language.
In spite of the economic downturn that affects the global market in the last 6 months, we should still be able to stand strong and withstand the turmoil. This year, 2009, we will welcome with open arms as we proceed to improve the site to greater heights. Last but not least, we’ll like to wish everyone a very
HAPPY NEW YEAR in 2009!!!
With Warmest Regards,
Keith Neo
NeoHide CEO