Milestone! Two million views
August 3, 2012Sometime between 5pm 2 August 2012 (my time) and 7am 3 August 2012, this blog hit two million views!
In September 2011, this blog cracked the one million views mark since I started blogging in 2008. As I said when the total views passed half a million sometime in 2010, I can’t even comprehend that number.
So to have a further one million views in less than 12 months is mind-boggling! I must be doing something right ;-)
My weekday average number of views is between 4000 and 5000, and my monthly average is more than 100,000 views. I’ll do a full analysis at the end of this year, as I have done in previous years (see below for links).
However, despite the number of views and the overwhelmingly positive comments (‘OMG! You saved my LIFE!’), I make no more than ‘pin money’ from the donate button at the end of many posts (https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/if-only/) and I pay WordPress to NOT have random ads on this blog (my choice).
I mainly write this blog for me — I can’t possibly remember all the things I learn, so when I write instructions they are primarily to backup my brain ;-) Think of this blog as a dumping ground for all those random bits and pieces I learn each day. And yes, I definitely use my own blog to ‘remember’ how to do something I may have only done once or twice before.
The fact that others (all two million others!) find it useful too, is humbling.
See also:
- 2011 blog stats: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/2011-blog-statistics/
- 2010 blog stats: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/2010-blog-statistics/
- 2009 blog stats: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/revisiting-another-year-of-blogging/
- 2008 blog stats: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/looking-back-on-the-first-year-of-this-blog/
[Links last checked August 2012]
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Nice work Rhonda. I for one have pointed several people to your useful blog in the past. They have marvelled at the depth and breath of it vowing to bookmark it straight away. Well done.
Why do I keep coming back? Well, you come across as approachable and accessible; you’re relevant to me; you reassure me that I’m not the only one facing the problems I have; and every so often I feel I can add to what you have already said.
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