How popular is the detector brand you use? Some answers.:smile:

[BarnacleBill]

Most companies are not going make their sales figures public for all to see, unless they are publicly held. But one gauge of their popularity is how much web site traffic they have. Prospective buyers and customers seeking help & information will visit the company website. I recently took a look at the traffic reports for some of the more popular brands. A smaller number is better(more visits), and that two tiers exist is pretty evident.

Tier 1
1. Garrett.com has a traffic rank of: 311,328
2. Whiteselectronics.com has a traffic rank of: 323,813
3. Minelab.com has a traffic rank of: 534,298

Tier2
4. Detecting.com has a traffic rank of: 1,040,474
5. Tesoro.com has a traffic rank of: 1,158,269
6. Fisherlab.com has a traffic rank of: 1,543,711
7. Tekneticst2.com has a traffic rank of: 5,849,868

There are also three month trend reports to see how each manufacturer has done recently traffic wise.


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HH
BarnacleBill

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Now this is really odd! India 10.6%

Or is it some fluke of the way the web works??

From Alexa

Findmall.com users come from these countries:
United States 67.5%
India 10.6%
Germany 9.3%
Netherlands 2.6%
Spain 1.5%

 

[BarnacleBill]

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[Michigan Badger]

interesting!

Popularity is an odd thing in this hobby but I think your charts do much to show where it's at today.

I've been into this hobby for 41 years and THers are just as fickle today as ever

The movements in popularity burn from one end of the field to the other and then reverse direction.

A few post "this machine is hot" and within a few months everybody has to have one. A year later there's a mudslide of offers in the classifieds.

One of my pet machines is the Tesoro Tejon. I've owned at least two and probably will own another in the future when the popularity fire changes direction once again.

Right now I'm hot on the trail of a nice used F75 or F70. Will it find coins and relics where there are none to dig? Nah! But, one must follow the fire, right?

Oh ya, tis a pirate's life fer me.

 

[Deno]

Advertising has a lot to do with any machines popularity. When i first got into this hobby i researched the different brands by looking at their advertisements
& looking at their claims, this was a mistake, at the time i didn't know anyone in the hobby. My first high end machine was a big mistake, i believed the hype.
For five years i got my butt kicked by 2 buddies with different machines. I knew my machine inside & out, like a dummy i was brand loyal. I came to my
senses and bought another brand, my finds went up right away. I can give you one good example of a machine that a lot of people don't know anything
about, the Nautilus, it is by all means the deepest machine that i now of. If you hunt relics, this is your machine. Depth is not everything. My XLT can weed thru the junk like no other that i have experience with, i hunt coins. There are a lot of machines out there that i don't have any experience with that may be all that. This is just my 2 cents worth.

 

[therover]

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[Elton]

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[Jackpine Savage]

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[Ron from Michigan]

Bill,again interesting data.

 

[1859large]

That would be my guess. To upper end machines has to have a bit of a draw.

HH

1859

 

[Carl-NC]

Garrett.com traffic includes their security business, which is probably bigger than their hobby side.