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Ok, my curiosity has gotten the best of me, and I just have to ask… For some of the more mature blogs on Yakezie, if you were to look back at your stats after the first 6 months of writing and networking, what did the analytics look like?

I know that every site is different, but am just starting to wonder what the typical growth rate (if there is such a thing) tends to be? 

I've noticed a slow but steady increase on my site in recent months, despite a temporary hiatus due to military duties that kept me from my hobby of writing, and am just wondering if I'm lagging behind where I should be based on the last 6 months of work. 

These days, I have around 150 subscribers and an Alexa rank of around 250,000. I have been averaging right around 250 visitors per day. How am I doing? 

Again, any info on where everyone else was around this 6 month benchmark would be helpful. And hey, if you have a few spare minutes, feel free to check out my site and offer any advice you may have to help pick things up…

Thanks in advance for the advice! 

-Pat

http://www.compoundingreturns.com

Post edited 11:00 am – July 12, 2011 by Sustainable PF

Is that 250 visits, or unique visitors?  Either way, has us beat.  There was a time early on I thought we were doing WAY better but then I realized our google analytics code was installed twice – which effectively doubled our numbers for a little over a week.

At the end of May our stats looked like (click link for table):

http://sustainablepersonalfina…..og-update/

We started the end of November …

Its around 200-250 visits per day, although it can vary quite a bit day-to-day. I was just using what is an average for the site in general. Glad to hear that I'm doing OK, good to get the feedback from everyone. 

I hope I am where you are in a couple months!  Site meter says I have an average of 39 visits a day and my blog is 2.5 months old.

My info, like to publish this on my blog as well.

I started blogging 5 months back, for first three months I got 15 visitors per day with 25 page viewsI joined Yakezie a month back with Alexa rank of 2.6M and seeing increase every week.

Last week I had 60 visitors per day with 100 page viewes

last three days, I got more than 100 visitors with 160 page viewes on avg. 

In 4 weeks of joining Yakezie my Alexa rank got reduced to 390K from 2.6M

At 6 months, we had about 70 visits/day.

250/day is pretty awesome!

I am at 18 months now and get 325-450 visitors a day and that has only been a development in the last 2 months.  I'd say you are doing great!

OK – perhaps i'm the only skeptic, but I think Pat S may need a hand here and the analyst in me isn't quite getting the success upon looking at other metrics.

200-250 visits.  Cool.  Now lets dig deeper as this one metric is hard to gauge true success.

When I look at the numbers: 150 subscribers and 250k Alexa some questions arise ..

First, not a whole lot of alexa toolbar users visit.  Some yep, but not like Crystal's site (which has a crazy low Alexa).  150 subscribers is pretty good too, but they likely wouldn't account for 250 visits a day.  A lot of subscribers never leave their email or RSS reader.  For example, we have 350 or so RSS but don't get that many visits per day – people like the window they're in from our experience.

This is why I asked about the number of vistors.  If a select few come back multiple times a day then this number would be suggestive. 

I would also be curious about the search engine traffic – you get a lot Pat?  I'd think so give the number of visits. 

Lastly, I noticed, at least lately, you get about 1 comment per article.  I think there is some room for improvement there but also made me wonder who is visiting your site (e.g. lots of SE traffic who I find don't comment nearly as much as other bloggers).

I'm not trying to be a negative nanny here, but I think the picture is incomplete and commentators are measuring against this incomplete picture.  I would hate to think Pat is left thinking things are awesome (due to the comparisons) if they are simply OK, or, if there was an analytics issues (like double counted stats – I know the week I had that I thought i'd hit gold!) or the number of actual visitors was no meshing with the visits or metrics were being counted from Pat's visits themselves.  Or worse, if bots somehow were being counted in your visits.

So after all that, Pat asked how the stats on compoundingreturns measured up with others but it is important to look beyond one metric that can be deceptive.  Pat – if you provide more data a comparison is easier to make more accurately. (visitors, SE %, when you look @ the pages visited are they all an even number?)

(yes, I took stats in university … and various analysis methodology courses.  I'm a nerd that way)

Hope to help (and with lucky simply re-affirm)!