I’ve been blogging for a long time, longer than I’ve owned this domain or had Google Analytics. Â Beyond public blogging I also keep a paper journal, and in fact cart an entire box of my old journals with me whenever I move (which has been often). Â I also wrote more than 500 blog posts on the Twilio blog, and have guest posted for TechCrunch.
Recently this blog has been enjoying some popularity but I hadn’t looked very closely at the stats. Â I fired up Google Analytics and it looks like I very recently crossed 100,000 all time visitors — from August 2008 to present — which is a bit of a milestone. Â My blog archives go back to September 2007, when I started working for the first tech startup of my life: Pelago. Â It was also a month after I married Kevin.
Some stats:
- 236 RSS subscribers (according to Feedburner)
- 222 published posts
- 197 drafts
- 100,875 visits – more than half of which were in the past 6 months
- 16.48% of visits are from returning visitors
- 3 minutes average time on page across all posts
- Average page load time 13.68 seconds (WTF!!!)
- 21.6% of visitors via mobile
Top Content by Pageviews
- Don’t Waste a Single Moment (June 2012)
- How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit (February 2012)
- How I Built a Multi-User Door Buzzer for Our Apartment (June 2010)
- Got 99 Competitors & Bit.ly is One (June 2012)
- Starting Referly Took Me Three Years (May 2012)
Traffic Breakdown
- 16.7% Search
- 57% Referral
- 25.5% Direct
Top Referral Traffic Sources
- Hacker News
- Google.com
- Referly
- Twilio
- Seattle20.com
Congrats to your milestone! I reached 100,000 visits on July 15, 2005. http://egoist.blogspot.se/2005/07/100000-visits-to-ego.html