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Kottke.org redesign by the numbers

by bgraves on 4/5/12, 4:45 PM with 1 comments

• by bgraves on 4/5/12, 4:50 PM

  kottke.org is one of the most popular daily-updated blogs and was recently redesigned. Today, Jason posted some stats (highlighted below). I think the stats on Tumblr and Twitter engagement was interesting, too.

  - Overall traffic to kottke.org was up 14%. And February was a pretty good month itself so that's a nice bump.

  - Mobile traffic now accounts for 19% of kottke.org's traffic and increased by 25% over the past 30 days.

  - Referral traffic now accounts for 45% of kottke.org's traffic and increased by 28% over the past 30 days.

  - I also removed the links to the tag pages (like this and this) from the front page. I had a hunch that very few people were using those links compared to the real estate they took up and the traffic numbers bear that out...traffic to tag pages decreased only 3%.