JonDMiller
Publisher/Founder
This is inexact, but perhaps telling. Over the past several years, traffic on this site has dropped dramatically after signing day, then picked back up in March and April before the typical May-July soft months.
Through the first 20 days of February 2012, when compared to the first 20 days of February 2011, traffic to this site is up 58% and the number of unique users to the site is up 25%. Those are enormous gains, especially in the overall number of page views being up 58%. It means more people are coming to the site and reading more items related to Iowa basketball, be it stories or posts on the forums. Given that the off topic board is now opt in to read and the views in that forum are way down compared to when it was not opt in, the traffic gains are all the more encouraging and attributable to basketball.
Site traffic and uniques were up around 10% during football season, so normal growth for an established website. But the numbers this month are mostly reflective of Iowa fans staying engaged with this basketball program.
Through the first 20 days of February 2012, when compared to the first 20 days of February 2011, traffic to this site is up 58% and the number of unique users to the site is up 25%. Those are enormous gains, especially in the overall number of page views being up 58%. It means more people are coming to the site and reading more items related to Iowa basketball, be it stories or posts on the forums. Given that the off topic board is now opt in to read and the views in that forum are way down compared to when it was not opt in, the traffic gains are all the more encouraging and attributable to basketball.
Site traffic and uniques were up around 10% during football season, so normal growth for an established website. But the numbers this month are mostly reflective of Iowa fans staying engaged with this basketball program.