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About 10k visitors during the first month
Just letting you know that this blog has had about 10 thousand unique visitors according to Google Analytics during the first month of its life.
Biggest incoming traffic has been the result of two spikes: 1) the finnish digimedia writing about www.IRC-Galleria.net stuff and about 10 to 15 other blogs publishing either that same content or announcing that this blog has opened up (thank you for that bloggers!), 2) TechCrunch and ArcticStartup writing about Fruugo gossip.
Interesting details from statistics:
- There has been more overall incoming traffic from www.ArcticStartup.com (and from Vierityspalkki) than from TechCrunch ;-)
- Facebook is the biggest referrer overall (I publish entries on status messages and as an incoming RSS feed to my FB Notes). Seems to actually work better than anticipated. Nice. That stuff is visible only to my FB friends, which leads me to think that they must really read my writings (thanks) or they are just being nice..
- Google.com direct search traffic is huge; 3rd largest referrer.
- Jaiku is way above Twitter as referrer.
- I have had 12 visitors to my blog coming in with a search keyword "world of warcraft addiction" W00t? LOL =)
- Fruugo story is by far the most read.
- Half the traffic is returning visitors
I can say that I'm satisfied with the level of readers here during the first month. However I would wish for more comments and more discussions to appear on the blog. Many have commented my tweets or status messages, and I would rather see those comments here instead - and hopefully get some conversation going.
Thank you for reading! Keep at it! (and comment when you fell like it)
BTW: is there any kind of well-established and easy way to measure your RSS feed subscriptions? Drupal default stats don't quite do the trick as well as they should.
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Hi. My name is Taneli Tikka. This is where I preach what I practice. I'm a
serial entrepreneur and a startup activist of sorts. People usually know me
from my past and present consumer Internet service projects: IRC-Galleria,
Dopplr, Muxlim, StarDoll, RunToShop, Vakuutuskone.com, and a bunch of other stuff. My
"proper" bio is behind this link. Glad to see you here, thanks for browsing
around.
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I think only "almost"
Tue, 2008-11-11 12:07 — Anonymous (not verified)I think only "almost" reliable way of measuring rss-feeds at the time is:
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
If there is some other ways, please let us know :) I have service which has dynamic rss-feeds (rss-feeds for search results) and would love a way to measure these subscriptions... Feedburner doesn't work in that kind of situation.
Feedburner
Tue, 2008-11-11 12:17 – taneliWill have to go and explore what that can do for me. Drupal stats are showing a huge amount of load into the RRS file itself, which is probably the result of all the readers re-freshing the feed all the time.
Congtrats!
Tue, 2008-11-11 12:59 — Ville Vesterinen (not verified)10K is nice round figure. We all hope to see that grow.
Your blog is a great window into the Finnish startup scene and especially into the DOs and DON'Ts of running a startup! Priceless!
Thanks for putting yourself on the line and sharing the insights!
Ville.
Colors of the site
Tue, 2008-11-11 13:20 — perro (not verified)The black, blue, white combo hurts my eyes. The black background always makes my eyes hurt after few minutes.. Maybe it's just me.
Colors etc
Tue, 2008-11-11 13:38 – taneliVille: thanks for the encouragement!
Perro: white on black always reminds me of the old BBS scene and MUDs. Actually my screen is still full of VT100 terminals with white-on-black color scheme. The choice of these particular colors is just to look a bit different from the crowd out there. My apologies if it makes your eyes sore =(
In finnish please, too.=)
Tue, 2008-11-11 13:50 — Make (not verified)First of all, congratulations about that much of visitors, It is awsome! Then I still would like to read this great articles also in finnish. It would be great to fully understand the whole message.
congrats and re: commenting
Tue, 2008-11-11 13:53 — Tuija (not verified)Congrats on your impressing stats. Why not join the Oindex listing while you're at it?
I have noticed the same trend, very hard to get a discussion going in a blog, casual "drop a line" commenting happens more often in Jaiku. The microblog/lifestream is where "everybody else" is and the discussion stays in the middle of the people like a volleyball game whereas in a blog it is in some distant isolated corner of the social web.
There are some efforts to tie an individual's blog comments back to that person (CoComments) but I don't think those are very successful so far.
Awesome!
Tue, 2008-11-11 20:00 — Timo Vuorensola (not verified)Sounds very good, Taneli! Your blog is really a nice one to read. I'm also starting a new blog pretty soon about films in the internet era, and am trying to learn from your approach on tane.li.
It's probably pretty hard to
Tue, 2008-11-11 20:06 — Bro (not verified)It's probably pretty hard to measure the views in RSS feeds without doing it yourself on the server-side. But if you do, it's probably possible to also get it working up to a certain point with Google Analytics.
IE. you could make a request to Google Analytics using PHP or whatever server-side you're using whenever there's a request to the RSS feed. That way you'd get the stats for subscriptions and feed reader updates, altho it'd all be from your server's ip address.
Also by linking some measurement picture to the blog entries you could track it the same way and get stats for views.
Actually that might make a popular service if someone created a RSS feed stats service which you could hit on the server-side like mentioned above or use as a transparent gateway like http://whateverstatservice.com/?get=http://tane.li/rss.xml
Hmm, quite an interesting problem that almost demands a solution.. I think I'll need to think this a bit more. =)
Timo's blog and RSS
Tue, 2008-11-11 22:43 – taneliThank you for the compliments Timo. Will have to start reading your stuff once it's up. You (and the other Energia / SW guys) certainly have some interesting stories to tell!
Bro: Sounds like something started there ;) would be a nice service to get it all set up like that. Will have investigate those measurement pics etc further, thanks.
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