The First 100,000 Visits

I’ve been blogging for a long time, longer than I’ve owned this domain or had Google Analytics.  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).  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.  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.  My blog archives go back to September 2007, when I started working for the first tech startup of my life: Pelago.  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

1. Don’t Waste a Single Moment (June 2012)
2. How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit (February 2012)
3. How I Built a Multi-User Door Buzzer for Our Apartment (June 2010)
4. Got 99 Competitors & Bit.ly is One (June 2012)
5. 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