Traffic
February 14, 2006
Like many of you with a blog or Web site, I watch my traffic. I am not obsessive about it, but I usually check daily, and lately am both pleased and intrigued.
Pleased because there are more visitors all the time. I was getting a steady 700 or so user sessions a day when I lauched the combined blog in September of last year. I hit an average of 1000 a day around the end of November, and then averaged 1210 a day last month. The last week or so has seen a steady climb through 1300 a day, and then yesterday I had 1699 user sessions. I wonder how many of them were from T-Mobile?
The intriguing part is the number of people who go straight for the RSS feeds. Of the 3966 pageviews yesterday, 1560 of them were the feed for my blog, 130 of them were the feed from my eForms Resources page, and 98 of them were the feed from my CM Resources page. Even more interesting is that some downloads of my feeds are for multiple subscribers through places like Bloglines and Newsgator. Moreover, my feed is hosted in at least a couple of places, and I have only a vague idea how many people subscribe that way.
So clearly RSS is the growth medium for Web publishing, at least in my case. When I only had my brochure site, I would get 35 or so visitors a day. Yesterday, it looks like about 12 people took a good long look at the brochure site. Many of the rest of them were going straight for the RSS.
Posted by Bill Trippe at February 14, 2006 9:15 AM