Forex Kills

June was not as good as May. The EURUSD consolidation hit the statistics. The only site with a constant growth is forexpros, but this is also the only site with a section about stock and ETF.

It seems that july won’t be very good for the forex industry and very bad for Mataf. 3 weeks ago I have modified the link structure of the website which dropped most of my positions in several search engine… The mistake is corrected now but I lost arround 30% of the visitors in only 3 days and they didn’t come back for the time being.

4 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / forex industry and statistics

May has been an exceptional month for most of the forex portals. June started very well but the number of visitors fall week after week… I hope I’m not alone!

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The worldcup has a negative effect on the number of visitors. Last friday for the opening ceremony and the 2 firsts match Mataf had a fall of 10%.

On saturday and sunday I had the same “worldcup effect”… And it will certainly continue until  the 11th of july!

2 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / statistics

Most of the webmaster in the forex industry should follow the traffic statistics of fxstreet (I do since 3 years). Francesc gives detailled stats each month. It’s a nice benchmark for me. I don’t worry about strong drop or growth in the number of visitors if Fxstreet have the same variation.

Since the beginning of this year Google adplanner seems to give not bad data for the number of visits. I will publish some data every month to follow the evolution of the forex’s audience.

You have to take care with those data because Google use several approximations… But it could be a nice benchmark because every website have the same approximations.

Forex Global Statistics

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Mataf's uptime in March 2010

March was a good month for the response time which fall from 1050ms to 550ms. But I had a big downtime at the beginning of march.

Despite this bad news I had more than 800k unique visitors this month. I will certainly need a load balancer with 2 servers soon…

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Mataf's Uptime

The uptime was 100% until the last 3 days of the month, no luck, an unknown error has destroyed my hopes to be at 100%…

The uptime was 99.75% in january, the response time 1048ms.

I have to work to improve the numbers this year. It will be more and more important.

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Google AdPlanner gives strange statistics

Last September I shared my Google Analytics statistics on AdPlanner. Since this time the number of visitors has increased from 35′000 to 200′000 unique visitors per day.

I wish it was true…

No Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / statistics

I have some statistics since 2005.

Statistics from 2005 to 2009

I started 2005 with 100′000 visits per month, after 1 year I had 200′000 visits, in 2007 300′000 visits, 2008 started with 430′000 visits and 2009 with 980′000 visits.
This year is better with 1′150′000 visits in january.

Bad years :

• In 2006 I worked at Synthesis Bank (now saxo Switzerland) as head of webmarketing, I didn’t work a lot on Mataf and the number of visitors decreased on Q3.
• In 2009 I had a lot of problems with my hosting, the volatility on the market decreased, and I took 1 month vacation at the end of the year for my honey moon…

Excellent year

• Q3 2008 was the fall of EURUSD, i think most of the forex websites had the same variation in the number of visitors.

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