January 2011 Site Stats

Another month another set of visitor stats.  Here is how the graph looks now.

Month Visitor Stats

And the breakdown for this month

• This blog: 197
• Marblemice.com: 82
• Voyaging Mind: 13
• Total: 292

So this months sees a continuing decline in visitors to this blog and a rise in the number going to marblemice.com.  The overall result is I hit a new record (admittedly only 3 months of data) of 292 visitors. 

I have ever so slightly changed the focus of this blog over the past few months. Prior to that  I would post many what I am up to post along with the occasional how to do something article. The how to articles are what really drove in the small number of visitors I am getting. The slight change I made was to stop writing these articles. The took much longer to write than normal blog posts. As the articles on this site start to date I expected the number of visitors start to decline and that is what I think I am gradually seeing.

As I expected this it does not worry me. The idea is the number lost will be made up by other sites that I am developing and this is, at least for now what I am seeing with marblemice. Voyaging Mind is my little google sites site that my contain any articles I decide to write but to be honest I doubt I will write many in the coming months as I am focused on actual development rather than discussion about it.

The goal is to reach 2000 visitors a month by the end of the year and I am not sure I am on track to do that just yet without some substantial hard work by my part. At least the figure grew this month compared with last.

Predictions for this month? It is fun to make predictions. February is a short month so the odds are stacked against beating January without the release of my next project. I am hoping for a mid February release date but perhaps it is going to slip back a week or two. Beating Januaries results is going to be a close run thing.