Looking at site statistics

Yesterday was the busiest day on my other Web site, Mad About Madrid, for many weeks. Ever since the dreadful bombings in Madrid a few weeks ago traffic has been down around 40% but is now starting to reach pre-attack levels. However, the reason for yesterday’s big spike in traffic was due to the memorial service held in Madrid’s Cathedral, the Almudena. Many people from all over the world heard or saw the news about this event on TV, radio and the press and so made a beeline to their search engine to find out more about this cathedral. As Mad About Madrid is number 1 on Google for these search words, many people clicked on the Almudena Cathedral link.

Using the statistics package that I have from Stat Counter, I have been checking the activity of the people coming in to the site, most who have come in have read the information and left. However, a small percentage have moved around the site and will hopefully be added to my 'returning visitor' list. This is a snapshot of how one referrer, from Italy navigated around the site. The final 3 results indicate that the person is carrying out a search using Google on the Mad About Madrid site.