Half a million pageviews!

This is a big THANK YOU to all those botanical art fans who have

• become regular visitors to Botanical Art and Artists and
• use this site as the resource it was intended to be when I set it up back in early 2015.

Number of monthly visits and pageviews since April 2015 when BA&A started

Recently, I realised that, since it started in April 2015, Botanical Art and Artists has now topped:

• half a million page views (560,107 as of today to be precise) since April 2015
• more than 400,000 unique visitors to the site (400,913 as of the time I'm writing). 

In 2017, the monthly site traffic averages to date have been:

• 20,000 visitors
• 28,000 pageviews

and the overall trend (apart from the summer months) is ever upward

A new traffic counter

I never include counters until I've got something to 'toot my horn' about - and the achievements in terms of visits and pageviews felt like something worth tooting! My second big thank you is to Statcounter who worked out for me how I could include their counter code in the right hand column of my blog (and on the home page).

Why do I count?

Some of you will know that I qualified as an accountant (after I qualified as a teacher!). I spent most of my career involved in analysing numbers.

So, when I retired and started writing about art, it was entirely normal for me to use traffic stats to tell me whether or not what I was on the right track with what I was doing with my blogs and websites!  I get instant feedback and I do like a nice upward trendline! ;)

Google analytics data on geographical reach for the last 90 days

My website traffic stats tell me

• what interests you and what doesn't - in terms of traffic to individual webpages and blog posts
• what the reach of a site is in geographical terms which is also very interesting and also helps tailor content - hence why I've focused on developing global content for every continent!

What amazes me is that Botanical Art and Artists is now actually accelerating in traffic faster than Making A Mark was at the same age! (MAM is coming up to 12 years old - and its next big milestone towards the end of this year will be 12 million pageviews)

How do I count?

I've got two ways of counting traffic on the site. I've always done this because it means you have a back-up if anything stops working

• I use Statcounter as it provides an easy access / quick overview of my traffic stats - plus a very useful counter
• I use Google Analytics as it provides depth in a much more analytical way - but is less friendly with respect to communication on the site - although it's beginning to get better!

Why is this of interest to readers?

Two reasons. I depend on people telling me about:

• botanical art exhibitions in different countries around the world
• botanical art diploma and certificate courses - and other workshops/courses around the world

What you can see from the stats is that having your information on this website means an awful lot of people get to see that information.

Those botanical art societies and botanical gardens that send me information PLUS AN IMAGE about their botanical exhibitions also get a free blog post about it as well as a listing on the exhibition pages!

I'd certainly RECOMMEND anybody who is trying to promote their botanical art and/or exhibitions and/or courses to get a grip of your traffic statistics and use them to refine how you promote your content.

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