Continuous Learning

The following are the stats for January 2007:

• Posts: 17 posts for 23 weekdays - 3.5 posts/week
• Visits: 4,382
• Page Views: 6,261
• Average: 1.43 pages/visit

There are only 10 days worth of data in December 2006, from 12/22-12/31:

• Visits: 924
• Page Views: 1,619
• Average: 1.75 pages/visit

If I normalize January to compare against December data, then I have:

• Increase of visits: 158%
• Increase of page views: 128%
• Decreasing of average pages/visit: -0.32 pages/visit

Based on my blog objective for the year, I have achieved #1, #3, and parts of #2 for this month (I was shooting for power(100,1/12)= 147% growth per month).

This means there are still more work to grow traffic:

1. While I have more posts, the posts are not as focused and/or coherent
2. I also did not have as much time to focus on each individual posts as before
3. I have spent the last 8 days working on improving the blog theme, which also take away time from posting

All above means I need to look at a different way of creating compelling content for you. I will discuss my approach in the next article.