Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Statistics for February 2011

February was quite a good month. Given its shortness I managed to get to 399 visitors. The grower was marblemice.com while this blog remained fairly constant in visitors. Funnily enough both the this blog and marblemice.com got exactly the same number of visitors this month. Total visitors are up 36% from last month, here is the graph.



I am considering dropping the voyaging mind website from the stats as it only has a couple of articles on it and I am not likely to add any more at the moment. I am gradually adding content to a seperate blog. I am thinking of making an arbitrary rule that I won't worry about sites that make up less than 1% of my visitor count. I can see a time when tracking collating data on all the different sites become a bit of a pain.

The release of IdeaChimp came on the 28th of Feb which was too late to make a difference on the stats. If I had counted the few visitors I would have broken the 400 mark. I didn't so I didn't.

This blog gets most of its visitors from a few informative articles I wrote a while ago. Without them even less people would be reading this site. I guess reading about my attempts at growing websites is not that interesting :)

Joking aside it does raise the observation that while over the past two months I have released 2 web apps and have been happy with there response I could have produced 8 reasonable articles in that time and perhaps gained many more visitors.

This is probably a correct observation but my desire is to learn to create and market web apps and I set the goal as being getting to 2000 visitors a month while doing this. I am just slightly more interested in creating real applications rather than writing articles. That said perhaps I should experiment with article writing as away to promote my web apps.

Perhaps I should try to convince people who read this site to try out idea chimp :)

A positive thing is if current growth rates continue I am well on target to hit the fabled 2000 well before the end of the year. From here on in I have to maintain a growth rate of 18%, that is actually a bit of scary number now I have worked it out, I had better get to work.

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