.mobi iPhone users surfing .mobis?

[-REECE-]

I thought this was a particularly interesting topic for discussion granted the commercials and all about the iPhone being a "full fledged" web experience.

Here's my Mac view counts for the past 3 months -- read it how you'd like

April 01-07 = 0
April 08-14 = 5
April 14-20 = 0
April 21-27 = 12
April 27-May 03 = 27 (started promoting my site; 85% was NP traffic)
May 03-09 = 6
May 09-15 = 6
May 15-21 = 14
May 21-27 = 15
May 27-June 02 = 7
June 02-08 = 12
June 08-14 = 2
June 14-20 = 14
June 20-26 = 0
June 26-July 02 = 26 (82% NP traffic)
July 02-04 = 29 (66% NP traffic)

Namepros traffic is considered traffic resulting from links via Namepros. The percentages described are as a percentage of all traffic visiting my site from links on the Internet. The statistics do not include type-in traffic.
NP traffic accounts for approximately 4.3% of total traffic. Other links (dir.mobi, sitepoint.mobi, m.yahoo.com, etc) account for approximately 1.5% of traffic. NP stats are included due to the greater percentage of technological saavy users whom use Macs. Statistics are reported this way so as to emphasize the considerable difference that has occured lately.

Confused? The above stats are for total traffic (including type-ins), whereas the NP percentage of traffic is related to the percentage of links which were of NP origin.

Taking the best 3 weeks...

As a percentage of total traffic (this includes links from all sources and type-ins), Macs represented:

April 27-May 03 = 1.94%
June 26-July 02 = 1.16%
July 02-04 = 5.42%


Anyone think the iPhone has something to do with that? :lala:

 

[garrett200]

I can't say for sure because I have no idea where my traffic is coming from, but I CAN say that in the last 6 days I've had more total traffic than any other 6 day period ever.

Have a lookie at these pageview stats:

June 1- June 30: Total page views - 366
July 1- July 5: Total page views - 144

What's changed in the last 6 days? iPhone.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I have a feeling some peeps may be getting frustrated with trying to browse "full blown" .com's, and are finding out about and/or actively searching for .mobi websites.

One of mine in particular, "86d.mobi", is now getting traffic daily, and it never got any before. Hmmm, still some NNL's out there to reg!...hmmmmmmm.....

 

[-REECE-]

Just checked my Godaddy updated stats for Antioxidants.mobi from July 01-05:

Uniques: 226
Visitors: 403
OS X Visitors: 43
Hits: 844


For a 5 day period of time, that's about double the uniques + visitors I'd expect to get. Hits weren't up at all -- actually down a bit, which is odd granted both uniques + total visitors are up big time. I wonder how many of those 43 OS X visitors (which is more than I got in all of June) are iPhone users, perhaps typing in random sites (like egcg.mobi, epicatechin.mobi, etc; all of which point to this site), ending up here and not staying long (avg ~2 hits per visitor) granted the info they're seeking hasn't been added to the site yet...

 

[skeitel]

One of mine in particular, "86d.mobi", is now getting traffic daily, and it never got any before. Hmmm, still some NNL's out there to reg!...hmmmmmmm.....

Garret One doubt I always had: What's the logic behind names like this? Where is this traffic coming from? What are they looking for? What is 86d? How to monetize a name like that? What was your logic process to buy that name? Where can I find more information about these short + numbers names?
It is one of the typical names that I would never imagine would get traffic, and yet you say it does.
What are your experiences guys with "weird" names?
Thanks

 

[nrmillions]

My traffic is lower now than it was before the iPhone came out. I'm sure 99% of iPhone users who arent domainers still do not know about mobi and are not typing it in. Extra traffic is probably just from domainers searching for more names to buy now that iphone is out and from domainers looking at how mobi sites look on their new iphones. I myself was testing out mobi sites from a display iphone while I was at the Apple store in my mall.

 

[garrett200]

Garret One doubt I always had: What's the logic behind names like this? Where is this traffic coming from? What are they looking for? What is 86d? How to monetize a name like that? What was your logic process to buy that name? Where can I find more information about these short + numbers names?
It is one of the typical names that I would never imagine would get traffic, and yet you say it does.
What are your experiences guys with "weird" names?
Thanks

When you get "86'd" from somewhere, it means you get thrown out for good, such as a bar, etc. So actually it does have a meaning.

 

[RJ]

It's easy to detect iPhone users. Here's what I'm seeing as their browser agent when they visit NamePros:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

My logs don't distinguish between NamePros.com and .mobi traffic, so I don't know which people are using. I'm also not sure how well the .COM site loads on an iPhone, but it would be easy enough for me to put a message on NamePros.COM just for iPhone users to recommend the .MOBI.

RJ

 

[PVFARKAS]

I think 86d was initially diner lingo. if so its as american as rte66. i actually hunted around after seeing this thread. 86d is on a hot list for tech lingo too, fyi.