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What is “good” performance for a new Travel/City guide site?

Please don’t roast me! I’m sure this is a FAQ and I did try search first!

Hyper local website competing with the BIG sites like Yelp, Expedia, the big City Travel pages that are ran by the Tourism Boards.

I launched March 2 with only 8 indexed pages and I have a little over 60 pages indexed now. I’ve had 40k impressions so far with a big recent spike of traffic quickly compounding. It took 6 days to go from 30k to 40k impressions. I’m seeing around 1,500 daily visitors and a 1.2ctr. Avg position is 11.2 but that is dragged down by lowest ranking pages that have high competition from legacy sites. My top pages are all in the 5-8 range. Bounce rate is in the 30% range and time on page is a little over 1.2sec overall with 3.9 events per session.

So is this actually a good start? I have no frame of reference. I’d love to get your feedback!

TIA

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