Just a quick update on the great effects of StumbleUpon. While, many may look at this traffic and scoff at how common and low it is. For me and my personal sites, it’s a huge amount of traffic (though, the site I work on at my day job pulls in approx. 1 million uniques a month, so it’s not like I’m seeing the ocean for the first time–but it’s still fun).
I had been getting a trickle of SU traffic since launching wpZipper.com last week and then around noon EST this past Monday the flood gates opened:
By the end of Monday, the site had received just under 1,000 unique visitors. By Tuesday, that number had almost doubled. For such a small, new, and generally unknown website it was quite exciting to see this many people visiting. I could also see the StumbleUpon page for wpZipper start to fill up with people who also “liked” the site.
Of course, all good things must end. And, with a resounding thud, traffic landed back around the 250 uniques range on Wednesday. Though, comparatively speaking, 250 uniques is hardly a thud. I’ve been “dugg” before and it can bring tens of thousands of unique visitors within an hour or two. So, this is not on that level, but still a fun thing to watch.
The real value here isn’t the boost in traffic, it’s that so far this week over 3,000 people have been exposed to wpZipper and I’m starting to see the site being mentioned in blogs (several Spanish-speaking ones, oddly enough–there are some good looking Spanish blogs out there… just wish I could write Spanish beyond asking where the bathroom in the library is!).
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