A comment regarding what you say here: “Interesting to note that your stats are about double those of PaulD

Thanks for that. Interesting to note that your stats are about double those of PaulD’s. I trust this is because the browser is unique but the emails are a total count .. ie. so if somebody emails three agents, then as far as your stats they are only one unique browser for three emails… but as far as the agent’s stats are concerned thats one unique browser and one email.

Also, PaulD and I were raising the issue of the trend of those stats over the years. I believe that more people are tending to phone now rather than use the email facility (mainly because of the lack of response from many agents) and thus I believe that the yearly trend has been slowly down for emails per UB. PaulD stats seem to confirm that as well. Is that what REA is seeing?

Lucas commented in the other post that Domain is higher now than 04.. but the answer did not really match the question so I dont know if that is a case of just picking two years that gave them the best answer or whether thats all the info he has.

Interesting to note the monthly increase in January was 34-35% for the last two years. I looked around that period and found the drop off and spike for those two months for us were particularly in the 2 weeks wither side of the new year. Traffic on the website (not all look at property as we have 150+ other pages on the site) to the first 2 weeks of January was 250% of the last 2 weeks of Dec so I reckon that is where most of your 35% will lie.

In January 06, my office had 14,048 UB’s (from REA only) that looks to be about as much as the whole of Tassie combined. The big increase over the following year was probably just more and more agents coming on stream and more and more property being available, rather than any other mysterious reason.