Post statistics for 2007
1 January 2008
Filed under Site news
I thought I’d compile a list of statistics about my blogging activity and the attention my site has gotten over the past seven years! Here’s the standard stats I took from my Wordpress install over at http://phaedo.cx:
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Posts | 183 | 172 | 458 | 494 | 448 | 78 | 22 |
| Comments | 508 | 292 | 391 | 371 | 220 | 12 | 0 |
| Ratio | 2.77 | 1.69 | 0.85 | 0.75 | 0.49 | 0.15 | 0.00 |
| Avg. Post Length | 1450 | 841 | 926 | 1184 | 1065 | 812 | 499 |
| Total Len of Posts | 259k | 141k | 414k | 571k | 466k | 61.9k | 10.7k |
Here are a few visual representations of this data, courtesy of Google Charts:
The single statistic here that stands out to me is the number of comments I have been receiving. This, more than anything else, tells me that I am building an audience. It also tells me that I need to get comments enabled on this blog lickity split! Notice how my posting volume has settled down from the hey-days of 2004 and 2005? I’ve cut back by about a third, but my specific focus on posting less often, but to post more content per post has paid off.
I think that this is that has driven the explosion in commenting, even while the number of posts I made is relatively low. I now write an average of 1,450 characters per post compared to 841 last year. This is important.
My only concern now is my ability to convert my audience from phaedo.cx to this new blog. I’ve learned a lot about building an audience and quality content over the past seven years and I think my growth here will be much more lively!
Just to compare those content metrics to some hard visitation metrics, ala Google Analytics:
2007: 89,551 visits, 77,822 uniques, 112,794 pageviews, 84.89% bounce rate
2006: 66,402 visites, 53,866 uniques, 86,948 pageviews, 82.50% bounce rate
I’d say I was on a good trajectory! Now I just need to get some good content here and start to bring in the Google traffic :)
