Traffic Report: December 2025 – January 2026

Hello everyone!

I haven’t written new blog posts for a while, so I finally decided to return to this format. In this article, I want to talk about the current state of the progosling.com website, show fresh traffic numbers, and compare them with the previous report.

Some context

In the previous report, I wrote about 3,850 unique visitors per month. That was the period from July 12 to August 11, 2025. The data came from Cloudflare Pages analytics, specifically the Unique Visitors metric, which counts visits from unique IP addresses over the last 30 days.

It’s important to understand that this metric is not equal to the number of real people. It also includes cases where the site’s content is partially used by third-party services. These can be bots, plugins, APIs, or other websites that don’t load the page fully but simply request resources.

What’s happening now

Now the numbers look very different.

For the period from December 9, 2025 to January 8, 2026, the number of unique visitors grew to 23,830. The growth is noticeable, but this is not a one-time New Year spike. Traffic has been staying at roughly the same level for the past three months, so it can be considered the current baseline of the site.

But there’s a nuance

Of course, it would be nice to believe that all these almost 24 thousand are real people. But reality is simpler and more down-to-earth.

To better understand what’s actually going on, I enabled the additional Web Analytics section in Cloudflare Pages and looked at the statistics for the same period:

• Total visits: 1,030
• Total page views: 1,250

These numbers are much closer to real user traffic. They clearly show the difference between raw unique requests to the site and regular visits with full page loads.

Conclusions (preliminary)

The site is definitely seeing traffic growth. But most of it is not direct visits from real users — it’s background traffic.

This includes:

• bots
• parsers
• preview services
• other automated clients

In the next parts, I want to take a closer look at:

• where exactly this traffic is coming from
• which pages people actually read
• and what can be optimized further based on this data