Wolverine Devotee

October 31st, 2014 at 10:38 PM ^

Per Brian's interview on 105.1 today, he said that the email story on the main page was probably the story that had the most traffic in MGoBlog history. 

Whoa. 

aiglick

October 31st, 2014 at 11:47 PM ^

Go to compete.com and you'll be able to see the overall traffic spike for mgoblog. It is an estimate but at least for the trend is pretty reliable.

In summary the site got around 50,000 unique visitors on average since Septemeber 2013 through June 2014. Starting in July traffic started to climb and by this September 2014 the level reached around 150,000. The traffic basically roughly doubled from the average and is definitely not just due to seasonal trends.

That October number should be large with all of these referral sources driving traffic.

Congrats Brian and staff on these huge accomplishments and may you accomplish many more moving forward.

Edit: excuse me from August to Septemeber is when the traffic basically doubled. That 150,000 would be three times the average of 50,000 or so through 6/2014 when the spike began.

CrabCakes_and_…

November 1st, 2014 at 12:30 AM ^

Yup, and looking at the free Quantcast info lets us dig even deeper since they show unique visits, pageviews, etc. The unique visitors number spiked to about 3X normal this week, but pageviews was only about 2X which means lots of regulars were F5ing, and many new visitors just read the one email article.

Also, it looks like MGOBLOG averages about 1/3 mobile visits, but during the spike about half of all visits were on mobile, which means there were probably a ton of visitors from social media. And there was almost as big a spike after the Minnesota game/concussiongate.

Gerald R. Ford

October 31st, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^

Back when I found this blog, it was a fairly small cult for those who wanted to be informed intelligently.

Fortunately, it a till feels the same just bigger. Great week y'all. Thanks WD. You did well.



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speakeasy

November 1st, 2014 at 10:11 AM ^

Truth. My first interaction with the site was reading a post of Rich Rod's offensive schemes over the shoulders of some OL in class in the early spring of 2008. MGoBlog was quite literally the most informative source for actual Michigan football players for a hot minute there.

Coincidentally, Obi Ezeh used to sit in the aisle and take naps during that class.

BiSB

October 31st, 2014 at 11:08 PM ^

MGoBlog was mentioned in the New York Times, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, FOX Sports, the New York Post, Deadspin, Slate, the Chicago Tribune, and basically all of the local papers and media outlets. So, that's cool.

CharlesCarmichael

October 31st, 2014 at 11:18 PM ^

It's great to see this site get some well deserved recognition.

I was a little, I don't know, saddened? to see Schlissel say he feels like a Michigan Man. Can we please stop using that term! Michigan Man is a four letter word.

Jon06

October 31st, 2014 at 11:32 PM ^

Congratulations to Brian and Ace on the well-deserved achievement. It must be gratifying.

(I love all the whining about the NYT, too. Strong work, Section 1%ers.)

jared32696

October 31st, 2014 at 11:40 PM ^

New york times must important newspaper? Man i never wanted to believe it but obviously a very liberal thing to say. Tell that to the michigan guy who is being forced to pay child support even though its not his child. I wonder how the most important newspaper in the world, weighs on that issue? Gee boy i wish the government will bail me out if i go under on my mortgage or company. Oh boy oh boy. How bout this country grow a pair and have some responsibility for their stupidity. Sorry for the political rant but im tired of people expecting strangers to make their life easier. Thats what intuition and havin a brain is for. Neg away fuckers