Octopart Traffic

http://octopart.com/blog/get?y=2008&m=3&d=5

by andres • 18 years ago

48 25 18 years ago

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jl• 18 years ago

Congrats guys - traffic graph is fabulous!

prakash• 18 years ago

congrats!! good to know you are sticking it out and doing well.

andres3• 18 years ago

thanks! it was definitely difficult at points so we're really glad we stuck with it. paul's essay is right on.

daniel-cussen• 18 years ago

By my estimates, assuming $20 per user (which really varies), that's over $200,000! Congrats!

pg• 18 years ago

This is the magic pattern that means a startup is probably going to make it.

Incidentally, while 10k uniques a day is not a huge number for the average site, it is for this site. These visitors are per capita about as valuable as you can get. They're not just checking out the latest pictures on their friend's profile; they're all looking for electronic parts.

mixmax• 18 years ago

We did some sourcing of hardware parts in a previous startup, so I know the field a little. I think octopart will survive simply because they solve a problem that hasn't been solved well before. Sourcing is a pain...

I'm glad to see these stats, and I think they will definitely make it.

tim2• 18 years ago

Cause/effect?

That is an awesome site.

ashu2• 18 years ago

Awesome! Keep it up, dudes...

keizo• 18 years ago

This may be some what unrelated... but www.mcmaster.com is the best website I've ever seen or used for sourcing and buying mechanical or industrial products. Maybe it's worth considering that kind of model, ie more like craigslist, for octopart's homepage vs the google style.

andres3• 18 years ago

we really like mcmaster-carr's website as well. eventually octopart's website will be closer to that. first we have to aggregate a lot of technical data though. technical data is hard to come by because it is held tightly by a few companies who license it for $100K's. this is one of the problems we are trying to solve.

axod3• 18 years ago

Alexas graphs really do look nothing like graphs provided by sites :/ who to trust!...

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/octopart.c...

Seriously, cool graph + wd :)

ashu2• 18 years ago

Alexa is nuts. It's only useful as a comparison tool for sites which are really popular. Otherwise, their extrapolations just don't make sense statistically.

axod3• 18 years ago

It'd be nice if they showed the error bars on the graphs. I expect they'd be pretty massive unless as you say the site is really up in the top ranks.

brezina• 18 years ago

Congrats fellas! - i'm curious, can you say who your top referring sites are? Does Google dominate 80% of it? Do you spend lots of cycles on SEO? I understand if you aren't comfortable answering these questions in a public forum.

huherto• 18 years ago

Nice! I like it that is not the typical social network. It really solves a real world need saving time and money.

Fuca• 18 years ago

Great idea. I will wish you luck, but you do not seem to need it anymore.

spoonyg• 18 years ago

I use the hell out of your site and I am stoked that it sounds like you will be around for some time. Congratulations.

andres3• 18 years ago

awesome! i'd love to hear what you think we should do with the site. (andres@octopart.com)

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