iMarc Zeitgeist

Google just released their 2007 Zeitgeist, a list of search trends, patterns, and popular terms for the year.

Here are some trends, patterns, and popularity stats for iMarc's website during 2007.

Summary

Throughout 2007 iMarc.net averaged 2,507 visits per day and just over 11,630 pageviews per day. The average visitor viewed 4.6 pages per visit.

Though "hits" is an irrelevant and useless number, we managed to generate 18.3 million of them in 2007.

On May 7, 2007, we launched a new version of our website. It was a complete visual redesign and simplification of the site architecture. Before the redesign we averaged 2,074 visitors per day and 4.4 pageviews per visit. After the redesign our traffic jumped to 2,672 visits per day and 4.77 pages per visit. In terms of pure numbers a 28% increase in traffic qualifies as a successful redesign.

Search Terms (Referrals)

Most popular terms that people used on a search engine to find our site:

1. imarc
2. zombie photoshop
3. make your own movie
4. jessica alba hot
5. old woman
6. christian keyes
7. unix web server
8. web 2.0 tables
9. pythagorean wins
10. kim jackson

Searches

Popular terms that people used on our own search page to find specific content on our site:

1. tutorial
2. photoshop
3. zombie
4. alba
5. redesign
6. tsunami
7. freebsd
8. construction
9. mitx
10. poster

Popular Pages

The most popular page was actually our blog's RSS feed. In terms of real webpages, the most popular were:

1. PS Quickie! Your Own Crazy Movie Poster
2. AHHHHH! Oy! Alien Invasion! A Photoshop Tutorial
3. Home Page
4. Freakish Zombie in 11 Steps!
5. Make Jessica Alba Hot in 11 Steps!
6. Make me a dirty old woman! (in 11 steps)
7. PS Quickie: Meteor Invasion!
8. Portfolio
9. 9 Expert CSS Ideas You Should Think Twice About Before Using
10. Communique

Browsers

• Internet Explorer (36.73%)
• Firefox (31.19%)
• Opera (4.47%)
• Safari only accounted for 1.74%, coming in below such fantastic browsers as "msnbot", "unknown", and "AppleSyndication"

Operating Systems

• Windows (52.60%)
• Unknown (35%) – I'm guessing this is RSS readers grabbing the blog feed
• Macintosh (9.14%)
• Linux (2.27%)

Thanks.