The First 100,000 Visits
I've been blogging for a long time, longer than I've owned this domain or had Google Analytics. Â Beyond public blogging I also keep a paper journal, and in fact cart an entire box of my old journals with me whenever I move (which has been often). Â I also wrote more than 500 blog posts on the Twilio blog, and have guest posted for TechCrunch.
Recently this blog has been enjoying some popularity but I hadn't looked very closely at the stats. Â I fired up Google Analytics and it looks like I very recently crossed 100,000 all time visitors -- from August 2008 to present -- which is a bit of a milestone. Â My blog archives go back to September 2007, when I started working for the first tech startup of my life: Pelago. Â It was also a month after I married Kevin.
Some stats:
236 RSS subscribers (according to Feedburner)
222 published posts
197 drafts
100,875 visits - more than half of which were in the past 6 months
16.48% of visits are from returning visitors
3 minutes average time on page across all posts
Average page load time 13.68 seconds (WTF!!!)
21.6% of visitors via mobile
Top Content by Pageviews
Don't Waste a Single Moment (June 2012)
How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit (February 2012)
How I Built a Multi-User Door Buzzer for Our Apartment (June 2010)
Got 99 Competitors & Bit.ly is One (June 2012)
Starting Referly Took Me Three Years (May 2012)
Traffic Breakdown
16.7% Search
57% Referral
25.5% Direct
Top Referral Traffic Sources
Hacker News
Twitter
Facebook
Google.com
Referly
Twilio
LinkedIn
Seattle20.com