Are you worried about your website traffic dumping on Turkey Day? If you live in the United States, or get  lot of U.S. traffic you might expect it. The reality is though, it’s just another day, and don’t be surprised if you actually get more traffic than expected.

Looking at my own stats for a few of my sites, I found Thanksgiving played an insignificant roll in web traffic or it’s following days.

Looking at 2008′s benchmark from Google Analytics, traffic appeared to actually go up for most sites. This was based on an sites similar in size to 500 pages. Looking at benchmarks by category here is a list of the categories ordered by largest increased Turkey Traffic first. Continue reading »