Here’s a graph of daily traffic to LessonIndex.com (updated: August 4 through October 3):

And yes, the “baseline” for this graph is zero — traffic has more than doubled compared to a few weeks ago.

The two lines represent “unique visitors” measured by two different sources: blue shows data from Google Analytics, while red shows data from AW Stats based on my server log files.

The graph clearly shows the weekly cycle, with traffic lowest on Saturday.

And here’s another graph of the same data, emphasizing the “day of week” variation:

2 Responses to “Back-to-School Traffic Surge”

1. Tracee Orman says:

   September 22, 2011 at 5:04 am

   Awesome! Your site is such a valuable resource for ELA teachers, so I’m not surprised. 🙂

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2. Lhurey says:

   October 18, 2011 at 2:13 am

   Hi,

   I have an educational website and I would like to invite you to submit your site/blog to my educational links directory. You can submit your site details at the following link http://www.edudepartment.com/edulinks/links.php

   Lhurey

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