Genealogy Link Site Traffic

Here are the Reach (unique visitors each day per million Internet users), Rank (of all web sites), and Page Views (daily views per million Internet users) statistics charts from http://www.alexa.com/ for five of the genealogy largest link web sites over the last three years -

* http://www.AncestorHunt.com/ (#12 on Kory Meyerink's Top 50)

* http://www.AccessGenealogy.com/ (#13)

* http://www.CyndisList.com/ (#15)


* http://SearchForAncestors.com/ (#21)

* http://www.deathindexes.com/ (#31)

Since the graphs are somewhat hard to read, I will list the average Reach (per Million Internet users) and page views (per user) for the last three months for these three sites (plus Ancestry's statistics for comparison purposes) -

* http://www.ancestry.com/ -- Reach = 197.5, Page Views = 15.4 per user

* http://www.AncestorHunt.com/ - Reach = 9.65, Page Views = 1.5 per user

* http://www.CyndisList.com - Reach = 11.0, Page Views = 2.1 per user

* http://www.AccessGenealogy.com - Reach = 8.35, Page Views = 2.4 per user

* http://www.DeathIndexes.com - Reach = 2.4, Page Views = 1.6

You can see that www.CyndisList.com had a Reach of over 60 in early 2006, and now is down around 10, and has been steadily declining since then.

www.AccessGenealogy.com has several Page View spikes in 2005 and 2006, which may be additional Canadian Census database additions to the web site. Their Reach peaked at around 40 during 2005 and 2006.

www.AncestorHunt.com and www.SearchForAncestors.com have not had the significant traffic decreases that Ancestry, some of the Free database sites, and Cyndi's List and others have had over the past three years.

www.DeathIndexes.com had a peak Reach of about 15, but has been fairly steady over the last year.