YoChicago reached nearly 70K unique visitors in July

The volume of visitors to established real estate websites is as good an index as any of the state of the housing market.

YoChicago had 69,842 unique visitors in July, a 44% increase over the 48,496 unique visitors in July of 2012. We attribute most of that surge in visitors to a much healthier housing market.

YoChicago reached 478,745 unique visitors during the 12 months ending July 31, 2013, a 29% increase over the 12 months ending July 31, 2012. Two-thirds of our 12-month visitors, according to Google Analytics, were new to the site, and 53.6% of visitors found us via search engines.