Days of the week better than others for traffic?

[Rhino27]

Have you found any particular days of the week for non-b2b traffic better than others?

i realize some months are better than others but what about days of the week?

[Vetteman]

Yes I have noticed this. My site is about the stock market and traffic varies incredibly.

On Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I get around 1000 uniqes per day. On Fridays and Saturdays I'm lucky if I get 400 uniqiues.

I'm really looking for a way to even out this trend, but people don't think about stocks when they are in weekend mode! Except for me, of course.

[ManAboutTown]

I update my site once a week, so I can expect when the traffic will come. Weekends are usually dead for me, but that doesn't matter, especially when I think about my own habits. I'd usually rather be out doing something than inside reading the web.

[jmccormac]

My main site is a directory of Irish websites and statistics on the Irish hosting business. The best days of the week tend to be Monday and Tuesday with Wednesday and Thursday and Friday being slower. The weekends are very low traffic days.

Regards...jmcc

[hunderdown]

I think a lot of people surf at work, and surf for topics of personal interest. I also find that traffic drops by about a third on weekends from a typical weekday. Monday through Thursday tend to be about the same, with Friday about halfway down to weekend levels.

[robotsdobetter]

I have noticed that on one of my web sites gets the most amount of traffic on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and the least on weekends, but my other web site gets the most on the weekends, mostly because that's when teenagers and kids are out of school. It mostly depends on your web site's topic.

[Vetteman]

Interesting. So teen sites get most traffic on weekends? That makes sense, but how about in evenings after school?

I'd like to know because my site has historic stock market info as well, and I'd like to know if it is mostly students who are researching this information.

[robotsdobetter]

Interesting. So teen sites get most traffic on weekends? That makes sense, but how about in evenings after school?

On the weekdays after school hours I do get more traffic than during school hours, but have seen that my traffic goes up around 10:00 to 12:00 PM and think it's because of computer classes, where the kids can get on the internet.

[hp11]

I have found that my traffic seems to peak Monday-Thursday and on Sunday. It is at its lowest on Friday and Saturday - go figure.

[EhWire]

Hi,

I try and maintain my site as a humorous take on current events. I have only recently made a concerted effort to analyze my traffic and the results have been a real eye-opener for me.

Like others, I notice a real dip in 'uniques' over the weekend and things picking up first thing Monday.

A few weeks ago I did a posting about a bigfoot/sasquatch sighting in Northern Manitoba, Canada. To my astonishment this has generated up to 500 'uniques' per day by way of search engine referrals.

The biggest surprise of all though is the sheer volume of URLs that are government or corporate during times when paid employees should be staffing those URLs. This leads me to believe that 'surfing on company time' is a widespread phenomena. To a much greater degree than I would have ever imagined.

I am trying to make the switch from 'network administrator' to savvy 'webmaster' as the jobs and money just aren't there anymore. This site has been a wealth of information since I discovered it a couple of days ago. Maybe now I can make my sites pay and know why they do or don't.

Dan