Alamy Measures Stats April and May 2008

The view from my small window into the world of Alamy buyers. These are the first two months on Alamy so a very very small sample was involved. I'll be interested to see how these numbers progress over time...

April 2008

Proportion of searches for:

1 word 15% average of 14.00 pages viewed
2 words 45% average of 7.47 pages viewed
3 words 35% average of 3.31 pages viewed
4 words 5% average of 0.68 pages viewed

Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 1.65
Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 0.81%
My CTR: 0.00%

Proportion of searches for:

5 letter words 20.93%
7 letter words 13.95%
8 letter words 13.95%
3 letter words 11.63%
9 letter words 11.63%
4 letter words 9.30%
6 letter words 6.98%
2 letter words 6.98%
10 letter words 2.33%
11 letter words 2.33%

Most popular words (top 5 in each position):

First word: table, firework, noisy, garden, festival
Second word: mountain, display, uk, stage, grass
Third word: uk, garden, crowd, Rowling, cut
Fourth word: out

May 2008

Proportion of searches for:

1 word 12% average of 26.87 pages viewed
2 words 46% average of 13.30 pages viewed
3 words 26% average of 8.27 pages viewed
4 words 12% average of 4.93 pages viewed
5+ words 5% average of 6.19 pages viewed

Average number of my pictures viewed matching query:1.64
Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 0.78%
My CTR: 2.25%

Proportion of searches for:

5 letter words 20.39%
3 letter words 17.65%
7 letter words 16.08%
4 letter words 12.55%
6 letter words 12.55%
8 letter words 5.88%
10 letter words 5.10%
2 letter words 4.71%
9 letter words 3.14%
11 letter words 1.18%
12 letter words 0.78%

Most popular words (top 5 in each position):

First word: recycling, white, neighbours, pylons, cuba
Second word: uk, bin, paper, Potter, goers
Third word: page, field, for, sky, uk
Fourth word: sky, feather, book, town, white