How many hits does the average web site get?
99% of hit counts are below what value?

I read that the average web site uses 200-500 mb/month bandwidth and 99% of sites use under 2GB bandwidth. Does this seem accurate?

That is very accurate. Most sites (unless they are ecommerce or heavy traffic sites) put out numbers similar to those.

I'd tend to agree.

You'd have to have mega visitors and lots of graphics transfered to use up a lot of Gig transfers.

Originally posted by Wicker
How many hits does the average web site get?
99% of hit counts are below what value?

I read that the average web site uses 200-500 mb/month bandwidth and 99% of sites use under 2GB bandwidth. Does this seem accurate?
Where did you read those stats?

I got the 200mb -500mb statistic on this forum.

I found the 99% under 2 GB in this google search -- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%2299%25+of+web+sites+use+less+than%22+bandwidth

Does anyone know how many hits the average site gets?

The page at http://awesomeandmore.freeyellow.com/host.html says the average web site receives only 3 HITS PER DAY

That can't be right. Can it?

Yeah but you notice they are trying to sell search engine submit service. If 3 is average then I'm doing good...lol.

I don't trust the source, but it could be possible. What if most web sites don't get any hits at all? Perhaps lots of people put a site on the web and don't submit it to any search engines. There are no doubt millions of no hit web sites that we don't know about.

Sure it could be right. It could even be too high. Consider the following: for every Yahoo and ebay and other high traffic sites, there are millions of personal and small business sites that get no traffic on a daily basis. Some go weeks, even months, without visitors.

For a couple of years or more, the number of web sites on the Internet was doubling every 4-6 months. People were putting up all kinds of sites on almost any imaginable topic. Many are interesting only to them, or to a small number of people.

Search engines are irrelevant. MyComputer.com just dropped the webshapshot service so I can't show you that only about 7% of sites are found by search engines. Discounting bookmarks (about 40%+), which apply to sites already found, and being inside the site (going from page to page), links from other sites is much more effective (about 28%).

Besides averages can be deceiving, especially when the disparity from high to low is so great. A mean figure might be more revealing. These averages include a relatively small number of big sites that get a huge amount of traffic, a huge amount of sites that get practically no traffic (and not every day), and many sites somewhere in between.

The average "website" is a poorly defined term.
One domain can house many sites, and even a domain whose content is created by just one person can be considered to be housing many websites.

The traffic for webdomains would be the real measure to seek. Stats services like superstats and mycomputer's things only track the pages that have their codes on them.
Since most webmasters just put their code on their main page, search engines that bring in visitors via the back doors will be undercounted.

I believe the average content site with 10,000 to 100,000 page views, the midsize sites receive most of their visitors from search engines and links unless they have an offline presence. Only "news" sites with regularly updated content would have such high bookmark return figures.
But then again maybe those that operate "news" sites with frequently updated content are the ones most concerned with tracking their visitors and put the tracking code on them to begin with.

OK, it seems that we have come to consensus that the average web site gets close to 3 hits per day (100 hits per month) and uses 200 to 500 MB bandidth per month. One of these two figure has to be off. I can't imagine that the average hit is a download larger than 1 MB.

Perhaps I should explain why I am interested in these numbers. A person recently added a directory to my site that gets about 10,000 hits per day. I want to tell him that his directory recieved more hits than 99% of web sites or something similar.

Thanks

While none of it directly addresses the issue of average number of hits, there are still some fallacies in your reaaoning, firstmark.

The average "website" is a poorly defined term. One domain can house many sites, and even a domain whose content is created by just one person can be considered to be housing many websites.

I don't think so. Most people don't define it as most know what a web site is.

The traffic for webdomains would be the real measure to seek. Stats services like superstats and mycomputer's things only track the pages that have their codes on them.
Since most webmasters just put their code on their main page, search engines that bring in visitors via the back doors will be undercounted.
There are other ways of measuring traffic that don't require code. Alexa uses them for the figures it supplies to both Microsoft and Netscape, which they use in rating sites by popularity. Interestingly, they may differ by several thousand rankings, with Netscape tending to be the lower numbers (higher in popularity).

I believe the average content site with 10,000 to 100,000 page views, the midsize sites receive most of their visitors from search engines and links unless they have an offline presence. Only "news" sites with regularly updated content would have such high bookmark return figures.
Define average, if you can, as well as content site. It's a lot easier to define a web site. What's midsize, large, small?

Where are those figures coming from? I know that there are other reasons for high return rates on bookmarks, like popular forums (aka communities) that people return to daily.

But then again maybe those that operate "news" sites with frequently updated content are the ones most concerned with tracking their visitors and put the tracking code on them to begin with.
Now that's just naive. Al kinds of sites want to know the traffic they are getting, partly for advertising reasons. Many use cookies to do this, although there are other ways. (I can't stand the cookies). Code is not necessary in order to track traffic.