Web Traffic Update: Blogger Counts Everything as Traffic!

Hah! I just learned that Blogger, the platform my website uses, counts EVERYTHING as "traffic." Bots, spiders, viewing your own post, sneezes, you name it, it counts as a visitor. What that means is that, aside from Google Adsense, I have no idea how many unique visitors I have AND the numbers I was bragging about a few months ago were hilariously off. Were talking by as much as 20x, maybe more.

Making matters worse, Alexa hasn't ranked my site yet, even though it has been over a year. Part of the problem is that, for more than 4 years, my site was parked and redirected to HardOCP. I reached out to Alexa and, as expected, the answer was "we'll look into it."

In the mean time, some interesting stuff about the site:

• Almost all my traffic comes from the US and Canada
• Page views per visitor  is 2.7
• Daily time on Site per visitor is 2.2 minutes
• Most of my traffic is organic (direct visitors)
• Search traffic is 8.5%
• Almost 10% of my traffic comes from Facebook, followed by 8% from Google, 6% from Bing and Yahoo providing 5%.
• Biggest article so far was my Titan X: Maxwell vs Pascal review

I'll update you guys more as I get better stats so that I'm not just talking out of my ass next time!