Search index growth, number of search queries and traffic stats

I received a request from a journalist yesterday for some statistics about blogs.com.au. While certainly nothing incredible to look at here yet, I’ve posted the numbers at The Local in case anyone else had an interest.

Blogs listed in the search index at the start of each month
April - 912
May - 1445
June - 1894
July - 2107
August - 2314
September - 2561
Note: While we’ve nearly tripled the number of Australian blogs that we know of already, I really would like to get to 10,000 by the end of the year. If you read a local blog but can’t find it by doing a search then please add the blog to our index.

Web Site Traffic Statistics
In March this year before there was a search engine feature or The Local, the domain name parked on a empty holding page received 363 unique visitors. In August, the 5596 unique visitors to blogs.com.au generated 29,454 page views.
Note: Page views don’t include search queries conducted off-site.

Search Engine Usage Statistics
In August, the total number of search queries performed was 8710.