Traffic Stats From Month 1 of Layered Thoughts

Posted in Monthly Stats on May 1st, 2010 | 0 comments

Yeah, I know, I’ve been lagging pretty hard on posting here. Oh well. I’ve been in a less than good mood lately so wasn’t feeling it. But I’m going to try and post every other day in May, and I have a pretty solid list of topics I want to hit, so til then, chill out. I’m also going to write up at least 2 more posts in the niche product sites guide, hopefully more, so stay tuned for that too.

So around the end of March, I resurrected this old blog domain of mine and ripped out all of the old posts and decided to start fresh with a whole new set of topics and posts. Since then, things have gone pretty well. I got ridiculous traffic from that post I did on the simple Watir bot, which was sweet. I definitely need to man up and write up some more posts on that topic, people were obviously very interested in it. After that post, things settled down quite a bit, and I’m back to about 75-100 visitors a day pretty consistently. I’m really happy about that, blogging without readers is always difficult

So enough with the babbling, here are my analytics screenshots for the first month of Layered Thoughts:

Traffic Overview

As you can see in there, I got a little over 4000 visits, about 6500 page views, and an average time on site of a minute and a half. Not too bad. You can also see the traffic breakdown per page, as well as the splits amongst my referrers. Search traffic actually makes up a small portion of my traffic this month, all because of that post sending a huge amount of traffic through Hacker News, Wickedfire, and random other sites. I would imagine my search traffic will be a much larger percentage this month. (more…)