Leading Tech Blog TechCrunch Reveals Traffic Data
By Anna Johnson on February 24th, 2010Dontcha love it when Internet marketers reveal their numbers? Well, leading technology business blog, TechCrunch, has revealed some traffic statistics based on its Google Analytics data.
According to TechCrunch, total unique visitors to all its sites (including TechCrunch, CrunchGear, CrunchBase, MobileCrunch and TechCrunchIT) were 69.5 million in 2009, up 55 percent over the 45 million unique visitors in 2008. Page views were 228 million, an increase of 90 percent over the 120 million the previous year.
TechCrunch’s main source of traffic in 2009 was Google, which was responsible for 29.6 percent of TechCrunch’s traffic (down from its 37.3 percent share of traffic in 2008). TechCrunch’s second biggest source of traffic was direct traffic, amounting to 24 percent of all traffic (slightly down from 25.3 percent in 2008), followed by Digg (5.1 percent of traffic), Google sites e.g. Google Reader (3.18 percent) and Twitter (2.9 percent).
Early indications are that TechCrunch’s 2010 traffic will be its highest yet, with 11.7 million unique visitors to TechCrunch’s network of sites so far.
Source: Jack McKenna, “TechCrunch State Of The Union, Belated Edition,” TechCrunch, February 14, 2010
February 24th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Sometimes the amount of traffic sites like TechCrunch gets really boggles my mind for a minute or so…