All-time statistics since July, 2008

  • Over 26,ooo unique visitors
  • 58% search traffic, 25% referral, 17% direct
  • 80% visit once
  • 26k unique visits, 45k page views
  • 1 minute average on site, 82% bounce rate
  • 206 subscribers on average, reach of 4
  • Outliers: over 1,400 visits 6/09 and time on site over 9 minutes 11/09 and in June 2011 from 300 to 200 subscribers

Statistics for the last year

  • 80% visit once
  • 65% search traffic, 19% referral, 16% direct
  • 9,400 unique visits, 14, 700 page views
  • 1 minute average on site, 84% bounce rate
  • 196 subscribers, reach of 6
  • Outliers: over 100 page views on 1/11 and over 13 minutes on site on 12/22, reach of 53 on 12/24

Insights

Not much has changed on this site over the last year, from when I first started blogging. I think a few people who know me subscribe, and that’s about it. This successfully proves once again, how a poorly maintained blog gets little attention. So why do it? What do I want to get out of keeping a blog? I tried to explain that here.

Let me give you the answer I told my wife last when she asked. I blog for the same reason everybody else does. It’s the same reason you, me, and everyone else are on Facebook. To get laid. She probably won’t ask me again. Did you laugh as long and loud as she did? Then you might be someone who should consider subscribing to this blog.

If you’re someone who subscribes because of the Agile stuff it’s OK, I’m going to keep writing about it. If the rest of it is as interesting to you as the recent craze in kitting is to me, then you may want to subscribe to Agile fashion only. Just be prepared for a little more of my personality and humor in it. I’m no Agile Borat, but I might describe in a little more detail the people and situations that amuse me. I hope you find them amusing, too.

Or you may be the type of person, like almost the other 99% of us out there, that does not even know, nor care to understand, all about this Agile stuff. Perhaps you’re more amused by the likes of selfpoptart. While I will try to show a little creativity and humor, you’re really putting a lot of pressure on me to produce something unique. But you can see if I’m up to the task by subscribing to the other stuff worth mentioning.

Changes to the site

  • Changed the name
  • Created new categories
  • Converted old categories to tags
  • Updated Top Posts page
  • Added tags to the top posts
  • Now using cloud tag
  • Added category-level feeds
  • Adding media to excerpts
  • Adding pictures to posts from New Zealand

Given the reasons I want to blog, I’ve made some changes. They’re summarized above. If I want the blog to be about more than work, I needed the name to reflect that. I also wanted to clean up the clutter of the categories, and put everything Agile under one category so that people could subscribe to that part. I also made a separate space for our adventures in New Zealand.  In an effort to pick up more search traffic, I started using the tag cloud. Old categories were converted to tags to help seed that cloud.

Some time ago in one of the upgrades it mangled some characters, so I’m going back through old posts and reformatting. While editing I’ve been reminiscing and throwing some pictures in there, too. In keeping with the blogs new name, I keep tinkering with things a little bit. I’ll probably keep messing with it until blogging is as popular as reading newspapers is now.

What do you think? Are you ready for my new attitude?