Does the Internet have Seasonal Trends?
Everyone who Works on the Internet follows statistics. There are lots of ways and many reasons for following certain trends for a Website or Blog. These trends can be broken down into days, and in some cases by the hour.
There seems to be certain days of the week that are better for a particular topic, niche or product. You may find that your product or subject gets more pageviews from Monday through Friday or over the weekend. Trends can also change from week to week, month to month or season to season.
Keeping up with trends on the Internet is, to say the least, difficult. At present I have 2 different statistics counters on my main sites. With them I have noticed that my readership is shifting.
During this past winter, the best days for visitors were from Wednesday through Saturday. I could attribute this at least in part to the weather (more people at home). People would come home from work, may be fed up with their job and look for something they could do from home and be self-employed.
Once the weather changed and people started doing more outside, viewership changed more towards mid-week. People more than likely started their gardens and tending to outside activities like mowing the lawn on weekends.
Now that we are in mid-summer (in the U.S.) family activities and vacations come into play. There is no time to waste looking for Work on the Internet, there is fun to be had. People don’t spend as much time on the computer, there are better things to do.
Since I have only been Working at Home on the Internet for 9 months, I have yet to see how the seasons play out. But, if the trend follows the logical path, visitors, readership and pageviews should start to pick up within a month or so. Once the weather breaks again, and we enter autum, people should start spending more time inside and getting on the computer more often.
I’m hoping that is the case. Only time will tell. I may be off a little with the reasoning, but the Trend seems Apparent.
Possibly I made the change-over to my Own Domain at the right time, without even knowing there was a season for change.
Do you think there is a seasonal difference on the Internet? Have you noticed a seasonal change with your site?
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Hey Joe! I just noticed your favicon. I like it!
Input by Chris Cree | July 28, 2006 @ 9:01 pm
Hey Chris,
Yeah, I made it myself using Microsoft Paint (Windows XP).
Glad you like it.
If you have a jpg, gif pic you want to use for one, just go to http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ It’s just one of the useful things I have on my Joe’s Freeware Finds page.
Joe
Input by Joe | July 28, 2006 @ 9:42 pm
Hi Joe ~ after two years of watching trends the only that has held for me is less traffic overall on the weekends which doesn’t make sense to me sometimes because when I worked outside the home, I was on my puter on the weekends. I suppose I considered myself average when other people actually go out and DO things on the weekend
I’ll be looking forward to what you discover as my sites are constantly changing and traffic fluctuates more over a 7 day period than by months or seasons BUT those are for my sites.
You are doing ALOT with yours! (I’m graphic challenged)
Input by Tammy | July 29, 2006 @ 10:52 am
Hey Tammy,
I don’t know if the WAH thing is seasonal, but a lot of the Work FROM Home is.
I’m keeping an eye on the trends, but W/E’s are definately slower than they were in the winter for me.
I’ll probably do this again after I’ve been at it for a full year, that should give me an idea if I was right or not.
Joe
Input by Joe | July 29, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Hey Joe,
Back on the favicon thing. It shows up on your pages that you can link to from your front page (about, etc.) but it doesn’t show up on your post pages (like this one above). Weird.
Input by Chris Cree | July 29, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
Hey Chris,
That’s just because I installed the code in the index.html, and in pages not individual posts. I just didn’t think about it.
Think I should put the code there also?
Input by Joe | July 29, 2006 @ 1:59 pm
Hi Joe, probably like yous my self employed cohorts who read for ideas and information seem to do so in weekday office hours. People who have outside jobs read in the evening and on weekends. And in August things are pretty much dead what with vacations and such. I’m looking forward to September.
Input by Susan Reynolds | July 31, 2006 @ 3:50 pm
Hey Susan,
I used to worry about what time of day I posted. If I post by 10am here, NY will get it at 10am, LA at 7am and Australia will get it some time tomorrow, or yesterday I can never figure that out.
So, now I post when it’s ready unless I pre-post.
As far as vacations (or holiday as they say other places), summer is the worst for visitors to any website or blog that I have found.
Thanks for stopping by,
Joe
Input by Joe | July 31, 2006 @ 3:58 pm
Joe, If I remember right all I did was put the favicon.ico file in my blog’s root directory and it automatically shows up on each page, at least with Firefox. I don’t remember having to do any adjustments to my blog to get it to show up.
Oh, and as far as I can tell it doesn’t show at all in IE. Oh, Well.
Input by Chris Cree | July 31, 2006 @ 5:28 pm
Hey Chris,
Maybe it was a different service. This one is based on the Favorites in the Tool Bar. Once it is saved, it shows up in the address bar.
I had to put a piece of code in the template on the pages I wanted it to show up on, nothing to it really.
I had no problem with IE once it was in Favorites. FireFox, it just showed up all by itself.
Joe
Input by Joe | July 31, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
Yeah. With Firefox it automatically picks up the favicon.ico file where it exists and adds it to your favorites (Bookmarks in FF) and shows it in the address bar.
With IE you need to add code to each page I guess.
Yet another reason I like FF over IE!
Input by Chris Cree | July 31, 2006 @ 6:08 pm
Chris,
2 questions… Are you in Florida right now?
Did you use the new Follow comments addition I put on posts?
Other than that, I’m just to busy and/or lazy to try to learn FireFox, so I just use the ole IR6 (for now).
Joe
Input by Joe | July 31, 2006 @ 6:17 pm
Joe, Actually I’m home in Savannah. But I understand how it can be hard to keep up, I drove up to Charleston for a meeting first thing yesterday…
Actually I haven’t been using the follow comments check box because I don’t want to overwhelm my email. I use coComment to keep up with my stuff. That way I can track my conversations from anywhere. Which comes in handy with all the traveling I seem to be doing.
Input by Chris Cree | August 1, 2006 @ 7:43 am
Hey Chris,
I did notice you were keeping up with comments. I was just curious about how the check box thing was working.
I have heard good things about coComment, I just thought having the check box gives people another option.
Slow down a little, stay home for a couple of days. This heat will get you if you don’t watch out.
Joe
Input by Joe | August 1, 2006 @ 8:49 am
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