GNRCounter Yearly Traffic: See Your Long-Term Growth

The GNRCounter Yearly Traffic page showing summary cards, a yearly bar chart and a table, using sample data

Yearly Traffic shows the big picture: one bar and one row per year, with the change against the year before. It is the page for long-term growth and for the question “How far has my site come since I started?”.

LIVE DASHBOARDSample data
gnrcounter.com/dashboard · Yearly Traffic
The Yearly Traffic page with seven numbered areas: header, year count menu, four summary cards, yearly bar chart, counting note, search and export buttons, and the table header

Yearly Traffic with its areas numbered. All figures in this guide are sample data from a fictional website.

A tour in seven steps

The numbers below match the markers in the picture.

  1. HeaderThe page title and your site name.
  2. Year count menuChoose how many years to show: 3, 5 or 10. The default is 10.
  3. Four summary cardsTotal visitors with page views, the best year, the average per year for completed years, and pages per visitor with the mobile share.
  4. Yearly bar chartOne group of bars per year. Visitors and page views are shown; click New Visitors or Bot Visitors in the legend to add them.
  5. Counting noteA reminder that totals add up each day’s unique visitors and that the current year is still in progress.
  6. Search and exportFilter the table or use Copy, CSV, Excel, PDF and Print.
  7. The yearly tableOne row per year, newest first, with visitors, change, page views, pages per visitor, new and returning visitors, mobile share and bots.

Three year counts

Choose how many years to look at. The default is highlighted. The pictures in this guide use 5 years.

3 years5 years10 years

One chart, two views

Switch the tabs to see the chart with its default series and with every series switched on.

Yearly bar chart showing visitors and page views for five years

By default the chart shows visitors (blue) and page views (orange) for each year.

The same chart with new visitors and bot visitors added

Click New Visitors and Bot Visitors in the legend to add them. Click again to hide them.

Yearly Traffic at a glance

10Years by defaultYou can also choose 3 or 5.
4Summary cardsTotal, best year, average and pages per visitor.
24Rows per pageOne row per year, newest first.
5Export optionsCopy, CSV, Excel, PDF and Print.

Zoom in on the details

Four summary cards: visitors with page views, best year, average per year and pages per visitor with mobile share
Summary cardsThe average counts completed years only, so the current year does not pull it down. The best year can be the current year if it already leads.
Information note explaining how visitor totals are counted
Counting noteSomeone who visits on several days is counted once per day, so yearly totals are sums of daily visitors.
Yearly table with the current year tagged so far, change chips and mobile share
Yearly tableThe current year carries a so far tag and has no change value until it is complete. Other rows show an arrow against the year before.

Reading the numbers correctly

  • Visitors for a year are the sum of each day’s unique visitors, so a person who visits on many days counts many times.
  • The current year is marked so far and has no change value, because it is not complete.
  • The average per year uses completed years only.
  • Change compares a year with the year before it. The first year in the list has no change value because there is nothing to compare it with.
  • Mobile is the share of visitors on mobile devices. Bots are counted separately.
A young site can grow very fast in its first years. Percentages shrink as the numbers get bigger, even when growth continues.

Four ways to use it

  • See the long-term direction. Compare the bars of several years at a glance.
  • Celebrate progress. Look at how visitors and page views grew since your first year.
  • Judge big changes. Compare the years before and after a major relaunch.
  • Report. Export the table to CSV or Excel.

Yearly Traffic on your phone

On a small screen the summary cards come first, followed by the chart and the table. Swipe the table sideways to see every column.

Tip: tap the legend items under the chart to add or hide series.

Yearly Traffic on a phone: summary cards and the yearly chart
Yearly Traffic on a phone, scrolled down to the counting note and the table

Common questions

Why does the current year have no change value?

It is not complete yet, so comparing it with a full year would be misleading. The value appears once the year has ended.

Why is the first year without a change value?

There is no earlier year in the list to compare it with.

Why do yearly visitors look higher than the number of people?

Visitors are counted once per day, so people who come on several days are counted several times.

How far back can I look?

Up to 10 years, as long as your counter has been running that long.

All guides Back to homepage