Not that I spend a lot of time on stats or hits or anything, but as an “analyst-type person” I can assure you it’s important to set success criteria and metrics. Therefore, for the purposes of this task, I have decided (for myself at least) to define “popular blogger” against the statistic of 110 million blogs published (live and dead based on Q4 2007 estimate) with the top 1% (11 million) of these blogs averaging about 20 regular readers and 300 unique hits per day. Thus, averaging those numbers for a significant timespan (I’ll arbitrarily choose any 30-day span) seems like a reasonable definition of “popular” to me.
Not counting spiders and syndicate sites, my numbers are currently 12 regular readers (who according to my logs visit the site or hit the feed at least five days per week – and at least eight of whom I have identified and know personally – thanks guys) along with an average of about 30 unique visitors per day. Since the latter number is directly proportional to the number of references I make to obscure sexual acts (see previous posting about goat nipple electrocution), I will also remove the “over-empowered monkey-spanking teenager demographic” from my calculations when monitoring my success.
So, in short, it looks like I’m only about 10% towards my overall goal, and I should probably be finding ways to make myself interesting to people (or at least search engines) besides quoting a bunch of statistics. But in the meantime, I just need eight of you to subscribe to my feed.
