Visitors statistics on the website by January and February

03.03.2025

5 minutes

Introduction

For all the time that I have been running this site, that is, 1 year and 4 months, January and February have become my best months. By what metrics? Well, basically by all of them. Moreover, not only Google now gives me traffic, but also Yandex, for example. I think Yandex can become the main source of traffic, given the fact that with fewer impressions, there are more clicks.

To analyze my site, I use such tools and services as Google Search Console, Yandex.Webmaster and Yandex.Metrika. Well, okay, I dragged out the introduction, let's get down to business.

Analysis

Google traffic analysis

Let me start with analyzing traffic from Google. In general, this is my main and, accordingly, the best source of traffic. And here, everything seems to be good. Since my site was released from the sandbox (in November 2024), impressions, and then clicks, have always grown, which I think is very good.

Although deep down, I am still waiting for my first collapse and fall. I do not want this, but I know that it can very well happen to me. Unlike many other sites in my niche, the November and December Google Search core updates did not affect me, rather the opposite. But who can guarantee that this will continue in the future.

In January and February, the trend continued. If in January there was a slow and gradual growth, then February simply blew up my site. In the good way. The number of impressions increased by 50%, more or less.

If you want to analyze all the stats in detail, you are welcome to look at the file about the effectiveness of my site in Google search results

With the increase in impressions, the number of clicks on my snippets also increased. The growth was about 50%.

You can see that my average site position hasn't changed much, it's even gotten a little worse. The same can be said about CTR.

As you can see from the graph, the number of indexed pages has increased dramatically. But don't think that I somehow generated thousands of articles for the site. No, I mean, yes, but it was my paginator that did it, not the AI. I just modified it a little, and then it started ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

Well, if you look at it from a technical point of view, it's not really a paginator. Let's look at the newly indexed pages. As you can see, all the new URLs have so-called tags.

Most likely, experienced webmasters and SEO specialists already understand what my problem will be in the future. Ehh, the issue is that the budget for crawling the site is not unlimited and there may be problems in the future with crawling pages. In addition to this, there will be a difficulty with canonical addresses and duplicate content.

Although Google has not yet detected the latter (duplicate content). This means that my templates of titles and descriptions are good enough ╮(￣_￣)╭

You can see what I did with this in the article about the paginator and duplicate articles and their canonical addresses.

Traffic analysis from Yandex

Let's see how Yandex is doing. As you can see, in January everything was very sad. There was a small jump, but it was not caused by anything. I did nothing at that time and did not undertake anything. Most likely, this is either a statistical error, or a test from Yandex, as it was with Google.

For those who want to analyze the results for themselves, here are the Yandex Search results for January-February.

In February, the picture is completely different. A sharp increase in impressions, and along with it, clicks. Again, I did nothing with regard to Yandex. To be honest, I simply gave up on it, because it didn’t give a damn about me either (-_-). And, lo and behold, now Yandex is my main source of traffic.

Honestly, I don’t know how to feel about this. Like, you (I’m talking about Yandex, by the way) ignored my site the entire time of its short existence and suddenly decided to give it a few impressions. Honestly, I expect a return to my usual rate of impressions soon, that is, to 0.

Although, it may be that my website has just left the Yandex Search sandbox. Although Yandex doesn’t mention using it. Maybe I really was in the sandbox all this time??? ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

Traffic Analysis from Metrics

Let's take a look at where people come from.

As you can see from the report, I have two main sources of traffic. These are Google and Yandex. And other search engines, such as bing, yahoo and duckduckgo, also give a little.

Hell, even those same AIs sometimes visit the site. I clearly like diversifying traffic to the site. At least then I have a better chance of avoiding any filters or bans from search engines.

Traffic distribution on the site, compared to the previous period.

Let's take a look at the most popular pages of my site. In first place, as always, is the image scraper from websites. Next, a tutorial article on how to make a quiz bot in Telegram. The top three is closed by an article about the history of dead programming languages. This trio makes up a quarter of all traffic.

Yeah, I won't miss the opportunity to cross-link my articles once again (─‿‿─)

You can read the list yourself, but I would like to highlight one (no, not an article, but a whole cluster of articles). These are articles about working with the QuillJS library. Together, they bring me more traffic than, for example, the second place.

- this is an image scraper page
- this is a page about creating a quiz bot in telegram
All the rest, one way or another, about QuillJS and how to use it

Full data on my site's traffic can be obtained from the corresponding report or by following the link: https://metrika.yandex.ru/stat/40704702-85e7-4b63-978d-69afce493254?id=95199635&period=2025-01-01%3A2025-02-28&group=day&currency=RUB&dimension_mode=tree

Conclusion and what was done

Compared to the previous period, the traffic increase was huge. In my humble, personal opinion. Let's see what I did.

I'll start with the published content. In total, over these two months, I published 9 articles and 12 pages for tools. Not much. Also, I dug a little into the site code. The changes mainly concerned the WYSIWYG online editor and paginator. Oh, and I also removed the article previews from the site. I didn't even work on the external link profile. Although it would be worth it.

The only significant changes to the site that could affect its growth were changes in its internal structure and the work of the paginator. Plus, don't forget about the Google search update in November and December, which, I think, gave me a boost. In any case, I live for the moment and am happy with the results achieved. And to you, dear guest, I also wish good results and impressions in the search and that the AI does not offend you, too much. Hugs (づ￣ ³￣)づ

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