Tomasz Tunguz Blog · 2014-12-19 · 4185d

How Referral Traffic Drives Breakout Content Performance

Analysis of blog traffic distribution reveals a power law pattern where the top 2% of posts generate 19% of traffic. While social media and direct traffic remain constant across all post performance tiers, referring sites dramatically increase from 5% to 25% for top-performing content, demonstrating the critical importance of content syndication and collaboration.

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Metrics in this report

Blog Traffic Growth

3xmultiplier

year-over-year

annual growth

Direct Traffic Share

35%

approximate

all traffic

Email Subscriber Growth

4xmultiplier

more than

annual growth

Referral Traffic Share - Lower Quartiles

5%

median

25th and 50th quartile posts

Referral Traffic Share - Top Quartile

25%

median

top performing posts

Social Media Traffic Share

40%

aggregate

Twitter and Facebook combined

Top Posts Traffic Share

19%

top 2%

of all blog posts

Top Posts Traffic Share

48%

top 10%

of all blog posts

Top Posts Traffic Share

69%

top 20%

of all blog posts

Twitter Follower Growth

3xmultiplier

year-over-year

annual growth