As you may have noticed, we periodically update our readers on BuffaloRising.com traffic. We've taken the time to assemble a traffic review of the first seven months of 2009 - it sheds some interesting light on local internet traffic trends and larger internet trends.
From January 1 - July 31, 2009, BuffaloRising.com received 1,319,447 visits - an increase of 17% over the first seven months of 2008. At the same time, unique visitors have increased 35% to just over 462,000 and total pageviews are up 4% to over 3.27 million.
We have also seen some notable shifts in where our traffic comes from. Direct traffic - visitors who type BuffaloRising.com directly into their browser's url - is up 26% from 2008 and now accounts for 38% of our traffic. Facebook and Twitter have blown up, as the kids say, and now send 20x the traffic they sent in 2008.
The 10 network locations (not counting consumer-focused ISP's like Road Runner) that sent the most visitors to BuffaloRising.com during the first seven months of this year are:
1.) SUNY Buffalo
2.) City of Buffalo
3.) HSBC Bank
4.) Buffalo State College
5.) Erie County
6.) Roswell Park
7.) Canisius College
8.) Kaleida Health
9.) Citicorp
10.) Ingram Micro
The 10 search terms that drove the most traffic to BuffaloRising.com during the first seven months of 2009 are:
1.) 31 Club
2.) Buffalo events
3.) Encore Buffalo
4.) Anthony Bourdain Buffalo
5.) YNN Buffalo
6.) Thirsty Buffalo
7.) Tabree
8.) Buffalo Restaurant Week
9.) Ralph Wison death
10.) Merge restaurant Buffalo
Stunningly, there are158,816 unique search terms that sent visitors to BuffaloRising.com. While the top 10 reveal what's new and hot in Buffalo, we also like to look at the weirdest keywords as it gives us some insight into the bizarre intersection of human curiosity and interest search engine algorithms. Here are a few candidates for most bizarre terms:
1.) Cupcakes in the shape of Obama (124 visits to BR)
2.) Deep fried burgers (78 visits to BR)
3.) Those idiots (67 visits to BR)
4.) Aud Buffalo hole (62 visits to BR)
5.) Rob Ray shocked (58 visits to BR)
6.) Cosmic cupid connections (48 visits to BR)
7.) Will the NBA ever return to Buffalo (40 visits to BR)
8.) Eating zebra mussels (32 visits to BR)
9.) Lady in White, Allentown (28 visits to BR)
10.) Why doesnt the Buffalo smartcode link work (5 visits to BR)
11.) Does hummus have lactose? (3 visits to BR)
12.) Buffalo hotties (2 visits to BR)
13.) Does anyone ever make it big at an Indian casino (1 visit to BR)
14.) Does flan jiggle? (1 visit to BR)
15.) What does mean by saying i am going to turn you in to goonie (1 visit to BR)
And to answer the question, flan can jiggle, but it really shouldn't.
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From January 1 - July 31, 2009, BuffaloRising.com received 1,319,447 visits - an increase of 17% over the first seven months of 2008. At the same time, unique visitors have increased 35% to just over 462,000 and total pageviews are up 4% to over 3.27 million.
We have also seen some notable shifts in where our traffic comes from. Direct traffic - visitors who type BuffaloRising.com directly into their browser's url - is up 26% from 2008 and now accounts for 38% of our traffic. Facebook and Twitter have blown up, as the kids say, and now send 20x the traffic they sent in 2008.
The 10 network locations (not counting consumer-focused ISP's like Road Runner) that sent the most visitors to BuffaloRising.com during the first seven months of this year are:
1.) SUNY Buffalo
2.) City of Buffalo
3.) HSBC Bank
4.) Buffalo State College
5.) Erie County
6.) Roswell Park
7.) Canisius College
8.) Kaleida Health
9.) Citicorp
10.) Ingram Micro
The 10 search terms that drove the most traffic to BuffaloRising.com during the first seven months of 2009 are:
1.) 31 Club
2.) Buffalo events
3.) Encore Buffalo
4.) Anthony Bourdain Buffalo
5.) YNN Buffalo
6.) Thirsty Buffalo
7.) Tabree
8.) Buffalo Restaurant Week
9.) Ralph Wison death
10.) Merge restaurant Buffalo
Stunningly, there are158,816 unique search terms that sent visitors to BuffaloRising.com. While the top 10 reveal what's new and hot in Buffalo, we also like to look at the weirdest keywords as it gives us some insight into the bizarre intersection of human curiosity and interest search engine algorithms. Here are a few candidates for most bizarre terms:
1.) Cupcakes in the shape of Obama (124 visits to BR)
2.) Deep fried burgers (78 visits to BR)
3.) Those idiots (67 visits to BR)
4.) Aud Buffalo hole (62 visits to BR)
5.) Rob Ray shocked (58 visits to BR)
6.) Cosmic cupid connections (48 visits to BR)
7.) Will the NBA ever return to Buffalo (40 visits to BR)
8.) Eating zebra mussels (32 visits to BR)
9.) Lady in White, Allentown (28 visits to BR)
10.) Why doesnt the Buffalo smartcode link work (5 visits to BR)
11.) Does hummus have lactose? (3 visits to BR)
12.) Buffalo hotties (2 visits to BR)
13.) Does anyone ever make it big at an Indian casino (1 visit to BR)
14.) Does flan jiggle? (1 visit to BR)
15.) What does mean by saying i am going to turn you in to goonie (1 visit to BR)
And to answer the question, flan can jiggle, but it really shouldn't.
Photo from Hot Buffalo
Why does Buffalo Rising continue to make a mockery of the "Lady in White" whether in photographs or "best of.." articles. She clearly has some sort of serious allergy to the sun. I just don't get it.