My friend, super-blogger, and fellow Arsian, Josh Bancroft has a really keen post about how he tracks the various metrics of his personal blog (which gets quite a good bit of traffic!). I will admit it too, I am an analytics junkie too and I use a lot of the same metrics and tools as Josh does to see what content is doing good and where I can make improvements on my site. This is another post that grew from an interesting conversation at work. We were discussing what site statistics/metrics are REALLY important to a blogger. That is, swimming ...
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 ...