Trade Site Reader Statistics

In April 2008, our online articles had the greatest number of page visits on Wednesdays - over double the number of Internet hits on Saturdays.

Page views on Wednesdays in April were tops, about 2% more than online visits on Tuesday.

Thursdays and Mondays also averaged well over 3,000 page views daily.

Recording the fewest page views for a week day, the time window from Friday to Saturday seems to be when many Web surfers are offline doing other activities such as shopping or entertaining.

Below is a summary of page views for each day of the week, based on April 2008 statistics.

1. Wednesdays ... 18,337 for a daily average of 3,667
2. Tuesdays ... 18,017 for a daily average of 3,603
3. Thursdays ... 13,228 for a daily average of 3,307
4. Mondays ... 13,097 for a daily average of 3,274
5. Sundays ... 11,169 for a daily average of 2,792
6. Fridays ... 10,113 for a daily average of 2,528
7. Saturdays ... 7,168 for a daily average of 1,792.

The credibility of this data is low since we're only looking at 30 days. Also note that there was an additional Wednesday and an extra Tuesday in April.

What we can safely say is that, in April 2008, page views from:

• Monday to Thursday were 62,679 for a daily average of 3,482.
• Friday to Sunday were 28,450 for a daily average of 2,371.

Thus, page visits from Monday to Thursday are about 47% higher than later in the week. So if a month ends on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday - chances are that month will have lower page views than a comparable month that ends on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - or best of all - Wednesday.