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114 average daily visits is extremely good for a 3 month old blog I'd say. I spent practically my whole 1st year with an average of 20-60. Only now am I getting close to breaking 100. My posts are also much better now I'd say.

Your average visit length is also very good.

If you're ever interested in ad based monetization, realize that you'll need more search engine traffic to be successful.

I'd keep on doing what you're doing, it seems to be working.

I do have a few questions though, hope you don't mind answering. What are you using to measure this data? Google Analytics? Sitemeter? Wordpress Stats? All will give slightly different reads and you have to ensure that your own visits aren't being counted. I'm not an expert, but the 6 minute time on site seems really high. Is it possible that your own visits, which are probably longer, are being recorded?

Personally I like to see a higher number on the search engine referrals as those are usually the readers that lead to clicks and money via adsense.. but definitely you've got a solid start.  The key is to continue writing good stuff, work on improving SEO and promotion/networking, and keep at it for the long term!

My best advice is to check out some of the big dog PF bloggers and see what they're doing – and try to emulate them (not copy them).  They do things the way they do for a reason -because it works and brings traffic. :)

Thanks for the feedback, let me add some clarification.

The stats I posted above come from my webhost, they have an analytics tool that I have been looking at. I understand that it will not be perfectly accurate, but I have been using it over the past 3 months, so it least it is relative data to me.

I probably visit the site 10 times per day, definitely not 40. This is mainly just to check for and answer comments.

I was lucky enough to have 3 guest posts in a row on Free Money Finance in mid-February. After that, my traffic picked up a ton. I think that helped me get started more quickly than most. I've also been included in several blog carnivals.

Also, for some reason, over the past week, my average is closer to 160 visitors per day. On the weekends, that usually falls over to 80 or 90 per day.

Looks like you have some pretty good explanations on your stats already, but yes, they are very good. The daily #'s and the length of time is outstanding. In another 3 months, you could really be ready for some serious monetization!