Oct. 06, 2006 - Friday Stats Stuck

misery loves company

[andrewshim]

5 hours to go for Friday (Google time) and I'm down 80%! Anyone having a holiday anywhere in the world?

[mrSEman]

Yep, it's Thanksgiving weekend in Canada eh. Monday being the official holiday. Not to mention hockey season has started. :p

[maxgoldie]

Do you think that Canadian Thanksgiving will really be a downer for North American traffic?

[jomaxx]

Monday might be slightly slow. Hard to see how that (or any other celebration currently going on anywhere in the world) could drop Friday's traffic by 80%.

If Andrew's looking for an answer, it will be in his web logs and/or SE listings.

[firec]

If it's any consolation to andrew, I'm down 60%, with eCPM more than halved. I was looking for an answer too, but for now I'll blame the loss on the double whammy of smart pricing and holiday weekend.

[Pengi]

For me, Thursday and Friday are both well down on last week - about 45%. But when I look further it seems to be because last week's performance was so good - if fact, this weeks values are my second best ever!

[Genuine1]

My ecpm and income is better than average friday. But I wouldnt worry yet because theres still a search update going on I believe - so you could be getting badly targeted traffic?

[andrewshim]

But I wouldnt worry yet because theres still a search update going on I believe - so you could be getting badly targeted traffic?

Everything else is normal. In fact, since my site started ranking on page #1 for most of my key phrase variants, traffic has increased.

BUT I just don't understand it. More traffic = less clicks?

[surfer67]

Do you think that Canadian Thanksgiving will really be a downer for North American traffic?

Absolutely not. Canadian traffic only accounts for a very small percentage of overall traffic. 5% in my case.

[jomaxx]

Andrew, for the sake of our sanity it's necessary to explain what exactly the problem is when you start one of these threads. When you asked if there was a holiday somewhere, I naturally assumed your traffic was down.

So it that your traffic is the same but clicks are down 80%? That seems weird, and not the kind of weird that could be explained by a long weekend somewhere. Or is it a combination of clicks and low payour per click? Or what?