19 June 2017

Dramatic traffic increase for 8a

According official statistics on Similarweb, 8a has doubled up the traffic during the last four month and for the first time ever, we are now higher ranked than both Rock & Ice and Climbing. Interestingly, most of the traffic for our competitors come through links on Google and Facebook etc. The 8a visitors, instead, actively write www.8a.nu in the browser in order to get to 8a. Here is a "direct" traffic comparison including also showing that half of the traffic for our main competitors come from their country of origin. At the same time the 8a visitors are evenly spread around the world. 82 % 8a.nu: Traffic spread evenly around the globe 36 % UKC: Traffic 59 % from UK 26 % Planet Mountain: Traffic 59 % from Italy 24 % R & I: Traffic 49 % from USA 24 % Climbing: Traffic 46 % from USA It should also be noted that 8a is only focusing on sport climbing meanwhile our competitors cover and get visitors interested in all climbing disciplines.
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