2010 was a great year! I launched my own business Michael Brandvold Marketing and launched www.MichaelBrandvold.com.

The website went live on September 15, 2010 with four daily visits, by November 29th I had reached 843 daily visits to the site. 2010 ended with nearly 17,000 visits to the site. Average time spent on the site is nearly two minutes. Total published posts – 373.

The top traffic sources for 2010 are:

• KissAsylum.com
• Direct Type In
• Facebook.com
• Google.com
• Twitter.com
• Kissfaq.com
• Sleazeroxx.com
• Melodicrock.com
• Antimusic.com
• Musicthinktank.com
• Linkedin.com
• Bravewords.com
• Cheaptrick.com
• CDBaby.com
• Stumbleupon.com

4 of the top 15 traffic sources are social networking sites.

Top Countries

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• Germany
• Netherlands
• Brazil
• Sweden
• Italy
• Slovenia

Are you providing translations for your site?

Top Browsers:

• Internet Explorer – 38%
• Firefox – 32%
• Safari – 14%
• Chrome – 10%

Only comment is how the mighty have fallen!

Top Operating Systems:

• Windows – 71%
• Macintosh – 17%
• iPhone – 5%
• iPad – 2%
• Android – 2%
• Linux – 1%

9% of the traffic is mobile and 24% is coming from Apple devices. Are you optimizing your site for mobile? 9% of your traffic is a lot to ignore. And, what about Flash? 9% of the traffic is unable to view Flash, can you afford to deliver a poor experience to such a large percent of traffic?

Type Of Visit

• New Visits – 75%
• Returning Visits – 25%