This weekend, I had two people sitting at different tables at the same bar tell me they read this website, and really enjoy learning about various topics covered in the posts. This is unlike what I usually get—people who compliment me on my website, but are probably bullshitting to be polite, and that’s fine.
I analyse this site’s hits regularly. In May I had an average of 25 different people hitting per day, June saw an increase to 35 people per day, and this month has an average of 40 different people per day checking out my site per. In the past three months alone, I have had 2,679 visits, and over 6,000 page views (accounting for the same people who return more than once per day). Traffic is mostly from Canada.
For a personal side-project, a place where I can just vent and put my thoughts down somewhere else, it’s nice to hear the meaningful feedback like I heard at the pub that night. I enjoy writing, but what I enjoy more is having people challenge my ideas, hopefully so that I may always make my opinions more founded. I want people to call bull on me more often; but alas, that’s not so easy to get people to do.
Anyway, I really appreciate it when people give feedback. Not nearly as much because it slightly boosts my ego (it doesn’t really anymore, I’ll still have this site even if nobody even read it), but hearing that they have new interests or have had discussions because of something they read on Andrewshouts.com, is the metaphorical cherry on my sundae.
Any chance of trying out a “vlog” one day?
Posted by Mathieu on July 27th, 2009.
vlog = video log :P
Posted by Mathieu on July 27th, 2009.
I know what a vlog is =)
I never really put thought into that, actually. I’d like to think I express myself better in writing, and that I’m not very ‘videogenic’. But it’s now in the cards; thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by Andrew on July 28th, 2009.