'Record: Over 9.5m people visited MoneySavingExpert.com in January' blog discussion

Former_MSE_Penelope

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

Read Martin's "New Record: Over 9.5m people visited MoneySavingExpert.com in January" Blog.

Please click reply to discuss below.

timbim_2

That means more than one in five UK adults came to the site at some point and not far from one in the three adults who are online

You mean that only three adults in the UK are online!:eek:

Paul_Varjak

More likely that the same (relatively fewer) people visited with a different IP address.

poppy10_2

"January is always the biggest month"

I always assumed it would have been December, what with people looking for Xmas deals and loans to buy their Xmas deals. Maybe in January they are trying to trim their budgets to pay for the excesses of xmas.

Anyway, congratulations - those figures are amazing. Imagine if you put some google ads up - you'd be a zillionaire.

gallygirl

Incredible figures Martin :T, Like others, I like to think I'm responsible for a fair few! A year ago a few us at work used to send round links to vouchers etc. off the site and were greeted with 'thanks' - now it's 'got it already, thanks' A couple of comments:

"That means more than one in five UK adults came to the site at some point and not far from one in the three adults who are online"

Are all of these visits from the UK? I'd be interested to know how many overseas visitors there are, I see a lot from Oz & the USA on the forums I use.

"For example a family all using one computer will often only count as one unique user when it should be more – or a person who uses the site at home, work and on an iphone would count as three."

For this reason the digital industry is now using 'devices' rather than users - the figures are no different but the term is more accurate. Worth thinking about?

Well done again :T

Mobeer

Impressive figures there, even if they are users rather than people.

Do you (or your staff) have any thoughts on the proportion of users visits just viewing one page? Figures from Alexa show this trending upwards, whereas other sites like moneysupermarket.com have a downwards trend.