Alamy Measures Stats January 2009

It's been a quiet month punctuated by a snowboarding holiday where I shot a few Facebook pictures for my friends, and promptly received news of my work situation changing...for the worse. The credit crunch has bitten and I am now looking for my next contract. You'd think that this would give me an opportunity to go out and shoot some pictures but actually I'd rather practice the guitar in the warmth of my living room and finally finish keywording the last handful of pictures of Japan. I pleased to say that my portfolio on Alamy is getting a healthy number of views, a nice level of zooms and my pseudonyms are settling in nicely. The surprise statistic is that my travel image pseudonym has the best CTR at 3.20% - I was expecting it to be terrible in face of the competition but perhaps they are my best photos after all. Here is my view of Alamy for the month of January: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 18% , average of 13.04 pages viewed 2 words = 44% , average of 9.57 pages viewed 3 words = 27% , average of 8.57 pages viewed 4 words = 9% , average of 4.45 pages viewed 5+ words = 3% , average of 8.38 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 512 Proportion of views to pictures: 131.84% Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.27 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.27% My CTR: 1.18%

Ema (wishes) on display at Meiji Shrine, Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan

Proportion of searches for: 5 letter words 18.07% 4 letter words 16.47% 3 letter words 15.66% 6 letter words 13.52% 7 letter words 12.45% 8 letter words 6.96% 9 letter words 5.62% 2 letter words 5.09% 10 letter words 4.28% 11 letter words 1.34% 15 letter words 0.40% 12 letter words 0.13% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: READING off shell green Hiroshima asda Second word: berkshire shop license UK airport amsterdam car town a drink wheel japan festival petrol you Third word: UK south japan not manger Fourth word: africa UK town book is Womad england Fifth word: UK Any position: UK and READING book japan shop berkshire Most popular variations: cape town: (table mountain OR south africa) reading festival: NOT (book OR womad) grand union: (canal OR narrow boat) woman: (money OR drink alcohol)! buckinghamshire: (crime OR police OR public) blue: (recycling OR wheelie bin) book: (pages OR store) recycling: (bin OR facility) beer: (shop OR crates) green: (bins OR management) shell: (station OR petrol) train: (japan OR arriva) castle: (battle OR coombe) In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for: Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search): by number of unique customers searching: cat laptop london "piggy bank" dog by number of sales: "new york lights" handshake barcelona "brooklyn bridge, new york" iphone by number of zooms: "punjab india" mirrorpix dubai baltic "Jurassic Coast"

Alamy Measures Stats December 2008

So I'm *still* keywording those damned Japan pictures on Alamy but at least I've finished a photo book of the best 404 pictures that I brought back. I'm off on my next assignment soon so there'll be some new pictures to show you of winter scenes! This last month was still lacking in sales but my CTR has bounced back nicely. Here is my view of Alamy for the month of December: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 22% , average of 12.36 pages viewed 2 words = 44% , average of 8.67 pages viewed 3 words = 25% , average of 8.23 pages viewed 4 words = 9% , average of 5.27 pages viewed 5+ words = 0% , average of 0.41 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 467 Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.14 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.29% My CTR: 0.93%

Traditional shop fronts in modern Japanese street scene, Miyajima Island, Japan

Proportion of searches for: 5 letter words 16.41% 6 letter words 15.44% 3 letter words 14.86% 4 letter words 13.32% 7 letter words 11.39% 9 letter words 9.07% 8 letter words 9.07% 10 letter words 4.05% 2 letter words 3.86% 11 letter words 0.77% 13 letter words 0.77% 15 letter words 0.58% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: marlow tinsel reading christmas uk mardi Second word: Berkshire uk house bin not gras Third word: uk edinburgh bags beads man money office cut-out landfill africa Fourth word: uk edinburgh bin town london rubbish Any position: marlow tinsel Chrismas brunel capsules Most popular variations: environmental health: (bin OR rubbish) uk: (construction site OR taxi OR bank reflection) reading: (berkshire OR abbey) recycling: (bin OR box) woman: (rucksack OR umbrella) scotland: (yard OR hotel) disabled: (uk OR parking) silver: (tinsel OR presents) In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for: Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search): by number of unique customers searching: Christmas "christmas tree" "christmas dinner" ipod hospital by number of sales: "san andreas colombia" parrots "leeds sculpture" "leeds kenneth" "madrasa pakistan" by number of zooms: lobina mallorca "Frank Lloyd Wright" "nassau bahamas" "World Cup"

Alamy Measures Stats November 2008

*Sigh* The most depressing part of struggling on Alamy is actually that they make your stats so available and detailed. I am clearly not succeeding on Alamy and I don't wish to go into denial and blame the credit crunch. I have found some enthusiasm to start shooting some stock over winter at least but the following stats represent my worst month so far. Here is my view of Alamy for the month of November: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 15% , average of 22.48 pages viewed 2 words = 52% , average of 10.38 pages viewed 3 words = 24% , average of 7.14 pages viewed 4 words = 8% , average of 7.75 pages viewed 5+ words = 1% , average of 7.33 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 403 Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.11 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.35% My CTR: 0.37% WTF!!!!!

Coloured and golden Koi carp, Hiroshima, Japan 3/4

Proportion of searches for: 5 letter words 15.86% 4 letter words 15.69% 6 letter words 14.44% 3 letter words 14.08% 9 letter words 11.59% 7 letter words 11.23% 8 letter words 8.20% 2 letter words 4.28% 10 letter words 2.14% 11 letter words 2.14% 13 letter words 0.18% 16 letter words 0.18% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: christmas chinese tinsel toilet amsterdam book ENGLAND victorian Second word: CARDS dragon UK christmas child office Third word: UK manger Traditional shop lake smith Fourth word: UK district beautiful buildings mountain concrete Fifth word: village Any position: christmas CARDS UK chinese dragon Most popular variations: shell: (petrol OR fuel) christmas: (cards OR stars OR decoration angel OR penguin OR presents) amsterdam: (coffee shop OR bike) book: (pile OR chapter) old: (book OR paper) toilet: (seat OR flush) household: (rubbish OR recycling OR store) victorian: (street OR christmas OR doll OR toy) In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for: Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search): by number of unique customers searching: Christmas "christmas tree" dubai cat champagne by number of sales: tallin leeds "kid profile" "dawn ireland" warnemunde by number of zooms: courcheval malaysia hawaii christmas cuba

All of Alamy Theories

Japanese coins in a bottle
I've titled this as All of Alamy Theories since that should avoid any abuse, but also because this analysis is based on only a week of Alamy Measures data and I'm supposing that this can give enough information to suggest a trend!

People searching for everyday subjects have the least patience for searching

This theory is based on the top searches on Alamy. This week the top searches started with "woman", "child", "man", "christmas", "children", "family", "school", "young", "old", or "red". With the exception of "christmas" and "red", I would expect these words to come out top every week in terms of the number of unique customer occurrences (all have 100 or more searches in a week). The subject "woman" has a possible 1,683,703 results, which even when qualified with another word gives about 10,000 results on average. However, these top subjects get less than 400 views by each unique customer, that's approximately 4 pages viewed. It's as if the customer has an expectation to find what they want on popular subjects without digging. This theory stands for the top 173 subjects, which received less than 7 pages of views on Alamy, which this week were:

woman child man christmas children family school young old red car dog london new couple the computer business boy teenager van mexico PEOPLE white snow san money water black traffic uk female lake baby police house girl india ST green city shopping great teen office dubai modern hotel florida hospital chinese North Person beer john vietnam Texas building Virginia african la horse british spain Gold asian broken River kids french teenage father open sports south one student hand digital male human Ice women cat winter eiffel switzerland fish big manchester japan home obama empty vintage australia two russia credit beach small road rock shanghai dublin COSTA BUSINESSMAN drinking china Indian night paper video american wolf mother metal book Earth Russian english senior University glass moon coffee older mobile royal sun fiji blue back hispanic chocolate polar construction happy St. Italian sydney high window World street maldives teenagers party supermarket table doctor bermuda hurricane group james nurse students hot Electric animal shop champagne native vegetable BUS air classroom cafe football crowd TREE adult apple

Theory: To sell stock photos of popular subjects you need to have pictures on the first four pages of the results on Alamy. To achieve this takes a good Alamy Rank and if you don't have a good rank, you may not be best placed to cover these subjects

There are popular subjects where searchers will spend longer searching when the subject is more specific

This theory is based on the lower ranks of the most popular searches on Alamy. This is perhaps the best place to look for subjects as there is plenty of demand and although possibly plenty of images, the searchers appear to spend longer looking, an average of 13 pages. These subjects probably change each week so the following is only an example:

telescope Havana poland cup cabbage perspective damascus corridor laptop orca huayna Malaysian atm workman asia smiling satellite ljubljana pollenca byzantine Sarawak sixties hammock porridge multicultural designer positive chile hungary morecambe celebration valencia taoist bend mann caribbean blues wrist Sharm honeycomb calcutta botanist connection Crutches Mountain stretching dead Anatomy shadow elementary kindergarten boobs x Olives guatemala salvador photos support backgrounds forest CHURCH fir aquarium greenhouse doll seattle caravan volleyball Cayman Bangkok cider panda machu penguins surfing ball baseball active community malaysia beetle Tatra jail balanced sunrise wristwatch marble stormy tango picture fuerteventura lips Sabah volcanic breasts stone Hawaii award savings fisherman gymnastics nova puzzle feather venice

Theory: More specific but still popular subjects are perfectly accessible by lower ranked contributors on Alamy - particularly conceptual images where the searcher will spend lots of time looking in the lower pages

There are popular searches which go unanswered on Alamy

In the lower ranks of the popular searches on Alamy are a number of subjects which return no results. These subjects will vary each week but consistently go unanswered. There is a good deal of misspelling and poor english in this area but that is not to say that the searches are invalid. There is clearly an opportunity to fulfill these requests with no competition at all. There were 119 subjects this week which fell into this category as follows:

Blowholes amazonen junio "Marrakech "pioneers" Cabo chritmas del eyl Hilditch Kenneth Kingda musso neolithic rusizi teenagerd vegatable 1963 A/B aaron Avenida Avranches AX30DWpeople Barrios Berberis 'bill blathnaid brazillian bruno buddha buddhamonton businessperson canna Caroline chewit chil Chines chritsmas colage collage Collapsing columbines compter consoda daithi dart dava debretts 'Dutch dzanga-sangha elasticated elephans ELY, emilie eucalypt frederik freston Gilboa gus hameau Heliocidaris Hgirl highly hotle hstern Hsuehshan Ibn icleand iiza Isaiah Jebisseh judge Kamalame Kazimiercz kim kiviak, Kleburg konstruktion latvian leke Lev loose louguan Meadowhall menie milage mosesberg MUNICIPAL munk na nasser neptune Noel Oparach owner Poste poundbry preda Prestes Prima process reservoir retangular rouelette roza Sakalava samuel sant Sheila stawberry stefani stopped tenn trafficcongestion tricyrtis Wesminster woddy zhinan

Theory: This one is more about keywording than shooting. When you keyword you need to think out of the box, which All of Alamy will help with, and use appropriate, unambiguous misspellings

Alamy Measures Stats October 2008

I think I am losing enthusiasm for Alamy. Whilst it provides a meaningful outlet for my photography, it is rather soulless as far as photography goes. It does not reward artistic merit but rather rewards those who can "produce" photos, something I have not scratched the surface of. November in England is not an inspiring place for the artistically shallow! Here is my view of Alamy for the month of October: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 18% , average of 19.00 pages viewed 2 words = 50% , average of 20.04 pages viewed 3 words = 20% , average of 7.44 pages viewed 4 words = 9% , average of 5.44 pages viewed 5+ words = 3% , average of 8.73 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 375 Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.01 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 0.95% My CTR: 0.65%

The A-Bomb Dome at night with moon, Hiroshima, Japan 3/3

Proportion of searches for: 4 letter words 19.93% 5 letter words 16.93% 7 letter words 15.52% 6 letter words 12.87% 3 letter words 11.82% 8 letter words 6.70% 9 letter words 5.47% 2 letter words 4.94% 10 letter words 3.53% 11 letter words 1.94% 15 letter words 0.35% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: snowman cape christmas haunted UK boots Second word: house town UK garden cards shrine Third word: UK cape town chemist money Fourth word: town UK money turbine open sign warm group africa driveway Fifth word: EUROS Any position: snowman insulation ludlow ostrich Hiroshima Most popular subjects: japanese: (home OR Bullet train) willow: (river England OR tree river) UK: (road signs OR foorball ground OR motorway OR autumn hedgerow) old: (house OR paper) car: (wash OR wind turbine) ?!?! affordable housing: (UK OR building) empty restaurant: (UK OR London) baby: (stroller OR hide OR strollers) christmas: (angel OR cards OR stars) home: (depot OR ventilation) queue: (UK OR Britain) In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for: Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search): by number of unique customers searching: Christmas "christmas tree" barcelona fireworks football "credit crunch" iceland by number of sales: meditation "historical art collection HAC" "venice art" "northern ireland" "child yoga" by number of zooms: Nice Skagway "person and red" puppy madrid There is no good news this month. I've added 100 pictures in the last month and my CTR has more than halved. Even though Alamy's CTR is depressed this month, this is not good news. I think I need to create a new Pseudonym to house my Travel pictures as they are terrible at the moment (in fact, I ought to remove them altogether at this rate). Time for a bit of reflection on what should be on my portfolio I think, before I dissappear into the lowest ranks of Alamy. Andy

Alamy Measures Stats September 2008

September was a quiet month for me, with two weeks away from work, shooting in Japan (also known as a holiday to my fiancée). So I have loads to upload, my first 66 pictures from Japan go live tonight, I have to admit I may have taken too many pictures this time! Here is my view of Alamy for the month of September: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 15% , average of 14.52 pages viewed 2 words = 57% , average of 15.18 pages viewed 3 words = 22% , average of 6.47 pages viewed 4 words = 5% , average of 4.57 pages viewed 5+ words = 2% , average of 12.68 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 272 Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.32 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.19% My CTR: 1.41%

Ludlow Castle tower from inside, Ludlow, UK

Proportion of searches for: 6 letter words 18.78% 5 letter words 15.92% 4 letter words 14.69% 7 letter words 13.27% 3 letter words 9.39% 8 letter words 9.39% 9 letter words 7.55% 2 letter words 5.31% 10 letter words 2.86% 11 letter words 2.04% 15 letter words 0.61% 12 letter words 0.20% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: christmas table father john credit Second word: christmas mountain lewis crunch Claus Third word: UK street house england christmas Fourth word: UK BINS amsterdam summer hummingbird Most popular subjects: london: (children OR family) christmas: (star OR angel OR cards OR garland) woman: (ATM OR balloons) UK: (motorway OR housewife OR football ground OR restaurant inside) recycling: (bin OR tip) plastic: (clothes OR recycling) beer: (festival OR making) baby: (stroller OR money) south: (africa: (bush OR marina OR winter) OR west trains) children playing: (outside summer OR street uk) In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for: Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search): by number of unique customers searching: christmas, compass, computer, iphone, "piggy bank" by number of sales: "orkney islands doug blane", "persian gulf sunset", "superstock woman dancing", vaccine, "MAI CHAU VIETNAM" by number of zooms: "antique market", scorpion, "ARCTIC FOXES", "Kimberley, Australia", "victoria falls" I'm quite excited by the results this month but that might be because I was dreading writing up another month because of the lack of sales. However, my CTR is above the Alamy average and some of my images are starting to get view in categories where sales are more likely. My Christmas images are appearing in searches - this is a little late in the year I reckon, but bodes well for next year. I have some images of people which are getting views since I've moved towards a more editorial look to my pictures, this is in spite of not having keyworded the Reading Festival properly yet (I have until next summer!). The Alamy data is interesting, clearly this is the month for Christmas searches, the credit crunch is predictably sparking an interest in piggy bank images (go to the microstocks, folks!), and "compass" perhaps leads to editorial about the direction of the world's finances. Andy

Alamy Measures Stats August 2008

Well, yet another busy month for Alamy as they have upgraded Measures with some teething troubles but with masses of new data to crunch. Alamy have opened up their database to the contributors so that we can see what's hot and what's not. The result is probably too much information but I'll see what I can beef up from it anyway. Here is my view of Alamy for the month of August: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 17% , average of 11.86 pages viewed 2 words = 37% , average of 10.98 pages viewed 3 words = 35% , average of 9.65 pages viewed 4 words = 8% , average of 7.00 pages viewed 5+ words = 3% , average of 3.52 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 264 Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.13 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.01% My CTR: 1.19%

Overhead view of the Oracle roundabout on the Reading IDR (Inner Distribution Road), Berkshire, UK

Proportion of searches for: 4 letter words 19.09% 6 letter words 18.52% 5 letter words 16.81% 7 letter words 12.82% 3 letter words 10.83% 8 letter words 7.41% 2 letter words 3.99% 9 letter words 3.42% 11 letter words 3.13% 10 letter words 2.85% 12 letter words 0.85% 15 letter words 0.28% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: cape south national camera electricity Second word: town window gallery toilet beach Third word: UK sign bins sunset town Fourth word: UK africa edinburgh scotland sign Fifth word: tracks Most popular subjects: noisy: (neighbours OR flat) toilet: (cistern OR seat) script: (book OR paper) royal: (lifeboat OR mile) cape town: (sunset OR views) national gallery: (edinburgh OR scotland) In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for: Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search): by number of unique customers searching: globe "New York" london istanbul family by number of sales: "great ocean Road" minneapolis "monster truck" "london christmas" lidl "san francisco north beach" by number of zooms: russia "tavira portugal" Dorset "tsukiji tokyo" "rialto market" This month's conclusion for me is that in spite of my poor AlamyRank and hence lower number of views, my CTR is improving again (what some contributors call the AlamyRank yo-yo effect!). The two pseudonyms are now bedded-in and working how I wanted, AndySmyStock has a good CTR, AndySmyCreative has a poor CTR, so the more creative/abstract images are not pulling down the more obviously sellable stock images. Last month's sales were predictably a flash in the pan and I expect a drought for at least two months before my next sale otherwise I would be outperforming other far better Alamy contributors.

Alamy Measures Stats July 2008

Last month was both my best and my worst. Alamy took the opportunity to re-rank their contributors and because of my lack of zooms and sales in the preceding period they have downgraded both my pseudonyms. That is quite a blow as my CTR was rising and I reached the 200 picture mark. At the same time, last month I made my first sales! I sold two pictures, the first picture twice (once for a printed folder and once for an associated web page) and the second picture for an educational book. The second one is intriguing, and I've posted it here, because I can't think of an educational use for such a specific image. What I do know is that John Lewis this weekend announced a fall in profits so the same image got quite a few views over the weekend but alas no other sales as yet (fingers crossed that the papers used it and will report the use in due course). It is not a very exciting image (slight understatement!!! and remember, with a D100 I don't even get to crop!) but I am proud of the sale nonetheless, after all, I must have got the keywording right! Without further ado, here is my view of Alamy for the month of July: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 13% , average of 17.21 pages viewed 2 words = 43% , average of 11.93 pages viewed 3 words = 29% , average of 6.09 pages viewed 4 words = 10% , average of 6.15 pages viewed 5+ words = 6% , average of 11.02 pages viewed

The John Lewis customer collections depot in Reading, Berkshire, showing delivery vans

Total number of pictures at end of month: 206 Number of sales for month: 3 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.43 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.43% My CTR: 0.63% Proportion of searches for: 5 letter words 18.72% 7 letter words 14.87% 4 letter words 14.62% 6 letter words 12.82% 3 letter words 11.79% 8 letter words 11.03% 2 letter words 5.13% 9 letter words 5.13% 10 letter words 2.56% 11 letter words 1.54% 12 letter words 1.28% 13 letter words 0.26% 17 letter words 0.26% Most popular words (top 5 in each position): First word: Cape, coastal, berkshire, Edinburgh, mudeford Second word: and, town, bin, erosion, boat Third word: uk, bin, table, south, bag Fourth word: uk, mountain, africa, and, station

Alamy Measures Stats June 2008

Third full month on Alamy and these are some stats from my measures view of Alamy. Views were down this month, but that was expected as I tightened up my keywords and removed some images which were sub-standard

Proportion of searches for:

1 word = 13% , average of 21.45 pages viewed
2 words = 30% , average of 14.09 pages viewed
3 words = 33% , average of 16.21 pages viewed
4 words = 19% , average of 16.02 pages viewed
5+ words = 4% , average of 5.36 pages viewed

Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 1.83
Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.13%
My CTR: 1.35%

Proportion of searches for:

5 letter words 17.52%
3 letter words 16.85%
4 letter words 13.75%
6 letter words 13.30%
7 letter words 12.64%
8 letter words 7.98%
2 letter words 5.32%
9 letter words 5.32%
10 letter words 4.21%
11 letter words 1.33%
15 letter words 0.89%
12 letter words 0.44%
13 letter words 0.44%

Most popular words (top 5 in each position):

First word: edinburgh, amsterdam, UK, recycling, plastic
Second word: and, bin, UK, of, crowd
Third word: UK, england, and, table, festival
Fourth word: mountain, mile, tantrum, and, books

These stats seem to show that the buyers tend to search with the obvious word first (wow...I mean, how earth-shattering is that statement...it's worth coming back to my blog for that exclusive insight) By rights you could just put this one word in the keywords and get very good Alamy rank but at the expense of rarely appearing in searches. The best approach appears to be combinations of no more than four keywords - but most of my pictures are of something so this is easy. The surprise, that "and" keeps coming up. Should I start putting "and" in my keywords on every image? As it happens, "UK" turns up on most of my "UK" ones anyway.

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