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Blog Report & Projections
By Jeremy | February 1, 2007
[I have no idea what this means, really, but in the interests of full disclosure ...]
According to Sitemeter, in January this blog saw its most traffic since moving over from my blogspot account, with over 1,700 visits for an average of 55 a day. The blogspot site still receives around 20 daily visitors as well. Shortstat, which is a WordPress plugin for counting web traffic that includes both hits and RSS feeds, claims that there have been 6,089 "Unique" visits (or 70,239 "Hits") since November 16, 2006, with as many as 425 unique visits in a given day. If anyone can help me make sense of these numbers, please email me or leave a comment.
January 2007 Highlights
+ New content on 25 out of 31 days.
+ Integration of multimedia.
+ Free downloads of presentation materials.
+ Live blogging from conferences and thinktanks.
New Features
+ Monday Morning MP3
+ Wednesday's Weekly Webcast
+ Friday Foto Finish (inspired by SpanglishGringo)
Thank you to all who find the resources here helpful and have engaged the conversation. Keep the comments coming.
Topics: blogging | 6 Comments »
February 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
I have also added you to our aggregator … which basically gives a snipet of everything you post with a link if my readers want to go to your site to finish it up.
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February 1st, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Wayne, thanks for the add!
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 am
J-D,
You got me into this crazy blogging world…but I am really lovin publishing my brain online. I think you and me need to revisit our late night thoughts from Orlando. Hit my post today, and let’s talk!
Your 2nd City Homeboy,
CB.
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Your new blog look is great – especially the content sharing stuff. Even from the best, I mean west coast, the partnerships & impact that you are having in NY is inspiring. And even when hits & stats don’t say the whole story, it is exciting to read about the success you’re having. Congrats.
P.S. I love the ripping off of ideas. I’ve gotten so many different blog ideas from different sites that I visit. Glad to inspire a little.
February 8th, 2007 at 3:30 am
at present, 16% of my web traffic comes from the Ukraine… meaning: there’s a lot of spam running up counts on our blog stat programs… i think shortstat catches everything, whereas sitemeter somehow provides a more accurate picture (how, i can’t say, except perhaps they’ve figured out how to ignore multiple hits from the same IP… so, for example, one stat program will count all 700 hits from the same IP in – surprise! – the Ukraine, whereas another program will only count those 700 as a single (1) hit… there’s also other ways to track visitors… you can look to see how many hits come straight to the home page, versus going to single post pages… some stat programs have a “unique visitors” category… my best hunch is to think about a blog like a congregation… how many unique people come over a given period of time… i like to count how many unique (separate, distinct) people come over a seven-day period. I konw people who come to my blog every day, and then there are those who seem to come by about once a week… it’s just a guess, but I try to put together all those visits and guess how big the “listenership” is… from the stats you put it, I’m guessing that over a week’s time period you have 200-250 regular blog visitors, not counting people who come once and may never return (usually from a Google or Yahoo search)…
February 8th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Rudy, that explains alot. I got a bizarre bump in traffic this week from 2/1-7, which peaked at 1,014 “unique” hits (on Shortstat) on 2/3. Must’ve been Ukrainian spammers. Heh.