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In August, 12K Users visited our website, viewing 34.7K pages. On average, they spent 1 minute and 23 seconds engaging with the content. “Users” refers to the number of people who engaged with our website within the specified date range. “New users” refers to the number of first-time visitors during that same date range, and Google Analytics tracking cookies determine it.
The Reports snapshot section highlights important performance metrics for our website, including total Users, New users, and Average engagement time.
| Analytics category | August 2024 | 12-Month Average | % Change |
| Users | 12.0K | 10.3K | +16.5 |
| New users | 10.0K | 10.3K | -2.9 |
| Average engagement time | 1m 23s | 2m 00s | -30.8 |
Google Analytics offers a comprehensive view of our Users’ demographics, including details like their location, gender, and preferred language.
In August, the majority of our website traffic originated from the United States, making up 53% of total visits. Below is the full list of the top 10 countries where our Users are based:
Here is our top 10 list when it comes to cities:
It’s likely that a large portion of visits from Portugal and Croatia can be attributed to our staff living in those countries (we currently have 13 in Portugal and 14 in Croatia). Therefore, these figures should be taken with some caution, as we don’t have a simple method to exclude visits from our own team members who need to access the site for work purposes.
The Traffic acquisition section shows how Users discover our site.
As reported by Google Analytics 4, the main sources of traffic in August were:
A breakdown of social media-driven traffic shows that our website received 447 visits from various social media platforms:
Our site includes searchable public directories for Photographers and Crew, along with private directories for Clients, Agents, and Resources.
In August, we had 1.8K Users browsing through 5.2K profile pages (GA4 counts a View when a User scrolls through 25 profiles).
| Page | Users | Views |
| Find Photographers | 1.5K | 3.7K |
| Find Crew | 222 | 377 |
| Find Clients | 77 | 1.1K |
| Find Agents | 7 | 21 |
| Find Resources | 9 | 19 |
Of our 12.0K Users in August, 3.1K visited the “Find Photographers” page. On this page, 1.5K Users conducted 3.7K photographer searches.
We provide two options for browsing our photographer directory: List View and Gallery View. For Users without an account, the home page automatically shows the Gallery View, while the Photographers tab under the Find menu defaults to List View. For registered Users, both the home page and the Photographers tab in the Find menu default to List View.
| Type | Users | Views |
| List View | 995 | 2.7K |
| Gallery View | 508 | 1.0K |
The List View seems to draw more Users with higher engagement levels compared to the Gallery View.
900 Users engaged with photographer profiles, resulting in a total of 6.7K interactions. Below is a breakdown of those interactions:
| Link Type | Users | Clicks |
| Website | 611 | 4K |
| 200 | 665 | |
| About | 127 | 303 |
| 64 | 115 | |
| 54 | 90 | |
| BTS | 21 | 65 |
| Unpublished | 25 | 49 |
| Phone | 16 | 19 |
| Agent | 8 | 13 |
| Wikipedia | 1 | 1 |
Our website has a section named “Unpublished,” where photographers can present their self-assigned projects available for licensing. You can find this section through the Find menu or directly within each photographer’s profile.
| Page | Users | Views |
| Unpublished | 71 | 130 |
The static pages in the Consult and About sections of our site got 3.6K views.
| Page | Users | Views |
| Stock | 124 | 139 |
| Consulting Services | 99 | 146 |
| Design | 68 | 105 |
| Marketing | 113 | 204 |
| Photo Editing | 96 | 145 |
| Pricing & Negotiating | 310 | 413 |
| Shoot Production | 338 | 444 |
| Mission | 181 | 208 |
| Team | 328 | 510 |
| Successes | 56 | 69 |
| Press | 20 | 23 |
| Specialties | 81 | 127 |
| Membership | 250 | 361 |
| Jumpstart | 45 | 75 |
| Terms | 41 | 56 |
| Privacy | 10 | 10 |
| Contact | 79 | 90 |
Our Published and Intel blogs received 10.1K views. These articles serve a dual purpose: offering valuable information to our readers while also drawing new Users to our website when their web searches align with our content.
Below is a summary of traffic volume by article type, tracked through their consistent URL structure. We don’t track traffic for Case Studies, as the URL structure for those articles makes monitoring too time-consuming.
| Page | Users | Views |
| Expert Advice | 1.3K | 1.9K |
| Listicles | 1.1K | 1.4K |
| Specialty | 273 | 373 |
| Crew | 249 | 306 |
| Spotlight | 460 | 645 |
The top 5 Photographer Spotlight articles in August were:
The top 5 articles on our Published blog in August were:
The top 5 articles on our Intel blog in August were:
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