How many uv/month does a website have to receive to be considered "high-trafficked"?

[the_poet]

Just out of curiosity, how many uv per month do you consider a high-traffic volume? Personally, I think 10,000 uv/month is decent as a starting point.

 

[MattheP]

Thats 333 uvs per day. I would say its very low traffic for any serious site. However, if thats traffic of parked domain, then it is good domain/traffic

 

[the_poet]

Thats 333 uvs per day. I would say its very low traffic for any serious site. However, if thats traffic of parked domain, then it is good domain/traffic

Even for a serious site I think it's a decent starting point, obviously it will need to grow much for the website to be considered successful What's yor number BTW?

 

[TroyS]

I think it really depends on the type of audience/target market for the website. 10,000 random browsers who have no commercial intent (for the way you are monetising the site) is relatively low as you will probably be relying on advertising to make any return. 10,000 at $5CPM won't make you a fortune and won't make a potential buyer a fortune.

If however that was 10,000 of potential leads with a good conversion rate for an average paying product or service then it could be considered high traffic. The return would be great.

Work out the value of each visitor and it will be easier to quantify the amount of traffic.

 

[MattheP]

Even for a serious site I think it's a decent starting point, obviously it will need to grow much for the website to be considered successful What's yor number BTW?

First of all, its very hard to define and track real "traffic". What is traffic? Unique visitors? Refreshes? Time visitors spends on page? Number of pages visitors click? What is more relevant as "traffic" statistic - 4 unique visitors who will left site after 5 secs or 1 unique visitor who will stay on site for 4 hours, and will have high click through rate? There are many tools, some are very expensive, which tries to measure relevant traffic. But lets stay on Unique visitors for now.

333 UV/day is good for start but cant be considered high. For example, news portal I visit has more then 300.000 UVs/day, and tech portal more then 36.000 Uvs/day. Both are non english, with limited audience of small country.

About successful site - it depends more on "quality" of traffic then on "quantity". For example, I have a minisite which receives about 200-400 UV/day, but generates less revenue then my other (parked) page which receives 30 UV/day but has 60-70% CTR.
One part of my (adult) network of sites receives almost 30.000uv per day, and I wouldn't call it very successful. On the other hand, If I would have 30.000uv/day targeted traffic on real estate site, I would call that VERY successful.

My point is - quality of traffic is hard stuff to measure

 

[Gr8web]

And it depends for what site it is. 333 uniques Visits for a personal Family Page is already a lot, for a Webbusiness, it's not that much.

 

[MCDomains]

Depends on the niche. How does your traffic compare to your main competitors? What are your ranks for your keywords? if you're barely in the top 10 and getting 333 uv/day your traffic is not good since the top sites are probably getting 33,000 uv/day.