One of the exciting things about working in a web startup company is the rapid growth that happens at the start as your ideas turn into actual traffic to your site. May 2009 was another month of continued growth for us here in RevaHealth.com. As you can see below, our traffic was up by 23.38% on the previous month, and the number of enquiries for clinics on our site grew by 20.98%.
RevaHealth.com Monthly Growth - May 2009
Average monthly growth rates have been around the 20% mark since the start of the year, and we’re hoping to push these up to 30% per month as the year goes on. Obviously this gets hard the more traffic we generate, but we have our ideas and we’re making our plans so we’ll keep you posted!
As usual, the majority of our traffic came from the UK (37.21%), Ireland (26.10%) and the US (10.60%). According to our Google analytics, the remaining 26.09% came from 182 different countries or territories! This got us interested, and since the start of the year, we count only 13 countries on the map that haven’t visited our site since the start of the year. I wonder if we can get this number down by year’s end?
The split between people using our site to contact clinics at home or clinics abroad remained roughly the same this month for both the UK and Ireland. As our SEO efforts for our local listings take hold we should see the proportion of enquiries for clinics at home increase, but only time will tell.
Home vs Abroad (UK) - May 2009
Home vs Abroad (IRL) - May 2009
Of interest here, we know that the number of people looking at clinics (as opposed to contacting them) is far higher than the contact figures above reflect, so from next month we’re going to look at providing figures for visitors and figures for users i.e. people who just come to the site versus people who use the site to contact clinics. The differences in their behaviours should be interesting.
Interest in travelling to Northern Ireland from the Republic is strong as ever, with the raw number of enquiries up another 12% month on month, and the percentage of enquiries slipping just slightly from 19.73% to 19.11%.
Poland leapfrogs Hungary and Turkey this month to claim the most popular foreign destination title, with Bulgaria taking Spain’s place at the end of the top 5.
Top 5 destinations (IRL) - May 2009
Our methods of calculating which treatments people are interested in have changed slightly this month, so we can’t compare them directly to previous months, but there are no real surprises in the top 5 treatments in dentistry for Irish patients. Cosmetic surgery though has seen a slight shift towards weight related treatments, as expected as the summer approaches.
Top 5 dental treatments (IRL) - May 2009
Top 5 cosmetic treatments (IRL) - May 2009
One of the fastest rising treatments we found in our incoming keywords was “Endermologie”, which was a new one on me. This was closely followed by “Mesotherapy”. It turns out these are both treatments aimed at reducing cellulite, so I guess bikiniphobia was particularly strong in May!
The countries outside of the UK that British people were interested in visiting stayed much the same, with only Spain replacing Bulgaria in the top 5. Poland remained the most popular destination for people from the UK.
Top 5 Destinations (UK) - May 2009
While the UK interest in dental treatments pretty much mirrored that in Ireland, the cosmetic surgery treatments being requested differed in that acne / scar removal and tattoo removal weere 2nd and 3rd after Botox in the UK.
Top 5 dental treatments (UK) - May 2009
Top 5 cosmetic treatments (UK) - May 2009
Out of of interest what are the 13 countries?
Here you go:
01. French Guiana
02. Western Sahara
03. Mauritania
04. Guinea
05. Sierra Leone
06. Niger
07. Chad
08. Central African Republic
09. Somalia
10. Eritrea
11. Serbia
12. Turkmenistan
13. North Korea
Well done!
Is much of the more traffic coming into the main site or the blog?
Our main site gets around 99% of our traffic. We’ve been neglecting the blog a little lately. Hopefully, that’s back on track now.