All depends on where the clicks are counted
I gave one of my customers free traffic last month so I could prove to him that paid hosting versus free hosts had a better click thru, and got listed more often and thusly more clicks. Granted it's not an apples to apples comparison since he did the freehost run in June and on our boxes in July so there could be a diff based on the month. It would be nice to run a set side by side, anyone want to give that a try ??
Any way, the ctr numbers on our side look like this.
Date Unq CT CT %
7/1/2002 1 1 1
7/2/2002 178 12 0.07
7/3/2002 2346 111 0.05
7/4/2002 7293 504 0.07
7/5/2002 10582 659 0.06
7/6/2002 5811 121 0.02
7/7/2002 7525 144 0.02
7/8/2002 14261 432 0.03
7/9/2002 10256 701 0.07
7/10/2002 7246 112 0.02
7/11/2002 8239 431 0.05
7/12/2002 11189 215 0.02
7/13/2002 15360 943 0.06
7/14/2002 14596 121 0.01
7/15/2002 12112 559 0.05
7/16/2002 16354 943 0.06
7/17/2002 11880 331 0.03
7/18/2002 13255 934 0.07
7/19/2002 19323 1023 0.05
7/20/2002 15256 313 0.02
7/21/2002 20213 942 0.05
7/22/2002 20752 1237 0.06
7/23/2002 38055 2321 0.06
7/24/2002 31694 1142 0.04
7/25/2002 22470 911 0.04
7/26/2002 23881 599 0.03
7/27/2002 23361 2943 0.13
7/28/2002 31279 503 0.02
7/29/2002 117700 3205 0.03
7/30/2002 52822 991 0.02
7/31/2002 36282 584 0.02
8/1/2002 32900 2361 0.07
8/2/2002 41687 2901 0.07
8/3/2002 30021 2155 0.07
8/4/2002 16366 1175 0.07
8/5/2002 18353 1317 0.07
760899 33897 0.04
So 4% on average, he was using tgsw to submit and then ran the top10 by hand, he did get one hun listing in there on the 29th which threw the numbers off a bit, if you take that day out of the figures then you get a 5% ctr.
from wusage:
"The web site received 760,898 visits. A typical visitor examined 21.60 distinct files before leaving the site. A typical visit lasted for 1.89 minutes."
almost 2 minutes a person, proof that people are just jacking off to your pic's
You try to spend 2 minutes on a web page with 15 to 20 pics, it don't take that long
"There were 6,470 requests for documents which did not exist on the web server."
So it is very important to have your own 404 page to grab those people typing in more pages to see what they can find !!!!
"The web server was linked to by one or more pages found on 3,149 distinct web sites. "
sorry for the long post
Tim
