What percentage of your traffic bookmarks your site?
 

Hey gang,
What percentage of your traffic bookmarks your site? And what would you do to improve that percentage?
Have fun,
Dunkin

Is there a way to track how many bookmark?

I know about 25-35% of my traffic comes from bookmarks, but I have no idea how many new ones I get each day.

Sure. I have 3 different stats programs on my server - Analog, Awstats and Webalizer. Awstats gives me all the bookmark information and even shows the percent.

yep aw stats shows that info, but my goddamnnn host whiped out my stats info from januar 2004 to 11 december 2005.so i cant tell how much....

Anywhere from 2-10% here (as tracked by awstats); my sites that are only getting link trade and SE traffic have the higher % of course ;)

Voodoo! |spook

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/..._glossary.html

This value, available in the "miscellanous chart", reports an estimated indicator that can be used to have an idea of the number of times a visitor has added your web site into its favourite bookmarks.

DD

In AW, are you referring to the "Direct address / Bookmarks" part of the "Connect to site from" totals?

If so, I think that's how many accessed via a bookmark & not how many bookmarked the site on a given day.

OH! That area...those numbers seem WAY off IMHO.

On strange attractor so far 73% of my hits are off bookmark .... On the escort site 28%... think the key is daily fresh content ...strange attractor updated daily whereas escort site is weekly... if they know they gonna get it then they come back. You keep coming back here dont you?

According to AWstats:

Add To Favourites:
This value, available in the "miscellanous chart", reports an estimated indicator that can be used to have an idea of the number of times a visitor has added your web site into its favourite bookmarks.
The technical rules for that is the following formula:
Number of Add to Favourites = round((x+y) / r)
where
x = Number of hits made by IE browsers for "/anydir/favicon.ico", with a referer field not defined, and with no 404 error code
y = Number of hits made by IE browsers for "/favicon.ico", with a referer field not defined, with or without 404 error code
r = Ratio of hits made by IE browsers compared to hits made by all browsers (r <= 1)

As you can see in formula, only IE is used to count reliable "add", the "Add to favourites" for other browsers are estimated using ratio of other browsers usage compared to ratio of IE usage. The reason is that only IE do a hit on favicon.ico nearly ONLY when a user add the page to its favourites. The other browsers make often hits on this file also for other reasons so we can't count one "hit" as one "add" since it might be a hit for another reason.
AWStats differentiate also hits with error and not to avoid counting multiple hits made recursively in upper path when favicon.ico file is not found in deeper directory of path.
Note that this number is just an indicator that is in most case higher than true value. The reason is that even IE browser sometimes make hit on favicon without an "Add to favourites" action by a user.

60%

I know mine used to be around 14% but since I just redesigned the directory, my stats so far for December show 24% ....bookmarks are actually just as important as search engine traffic building, so the hard part is to get more users to bookmark your site.

actually, I just checked my stats...its 39.9% Waiting for it to be 100% hehe :)

At Fetish Philes about 45% of my traffic is shown as "direct address/bookmarks" by awstats, which of course includes visitors using browsers or systems that strip the referrer. My bookmark rate according to awstats is right around 8% (based of course on the formula Emerald beat me to posting) :D.

Hmmm I wonder how many of them actually bookmark me, but the % is rather low for now - gotta be working on that in th near future.