Our blog’s statistics after nine months

Editor’s note: This article was first published in January 2011. All figures are from that month: 115 countries, 2,356 cities, 1,800–2,100 visits and 6,000–8,500 page views a day, about €950–1,000 in monthly income, and a goal of 10,000 daily visits by the end of 2011.

The first post on this blog was published on 12 April 2010, so we haven’t reached our first anniversary yet. Even so, here are our blog’s statistics for these first nine months, since some people have asked to see them, and I hope they encourage others who are just starting out in this world.

Traffic has kept rising steadily over time, and let’s hope it continues that way.

How many countries have visited us?

Over these nine months we’ve had visits from 115 countries, with the top 10 being:

1. Spain (home of this blog and its creator)
2. Mexico
3. Argentina
4. Colombia
5. Peru
6. Chile
7. Venezuela
8. United States
9. Ecuador
10. Costa Rica

The blog has been visited from a total of 2,356 cities around the world. The top ones by number of visits are:

1. Madrid
2. Buenos Aires
3. Barcelona
4. Bogotá
5. La Victoria
6. Valencia
7. Mexico City
8. Seville
9. Caracas
10. Córdoba, Quito and Granada (Spain), tied

The sources that have brought us the most visits (in other words, the sites that have sent us the most traffic) are:

1. Google (search engine), by a huge margin over the rest
2. Wikio: 96,345 visits
3. Facebook: 95,234 visits
4. Yahoo: 87,504 visits
5. Bing: 71,567 visits
6. Blogger: 15,567 visits
7. Direct traffic: 14,987 visits
8. Idealista.com: 9,231 visits
9. AOL: 5,943 visits
10. Twitter: 3,191 visits

Conclusions: we need to work much harder on going viral on Twitter, since Facebook has worked far better for us so far. It’s also true that we don’t have many followers on Twitter.

Average daily traffic:

• Visits: 1,800–2,100 (we still have a lot to improve)
• Page views: 6,000–8,500 (a more than excellent result, in our view)

These two figures mean that either we’ve been very lucky or we’ve done a good job, because our bounce rate is minimal, so much so that I won’t even mention it, since many people wouldn’t believe it. It means that people who come to our site aren’t disappointed: they view more than four articles per visit and, more importantly, a high percentage of them come back.

We’ll close this month of January with more than 180,000 page views. I know I don’t have Facebook’s traffic, but it’s also true that I’m somewhat more attractive than Zuckerberg 🙂 You can’t have everything.

People have sometimes told me they’ve spent three hours on our site, and I thought they were exaggerating, but no:

• 17 people have browsed this blog for more than 6 hours.
• 101 people for more than 4 hours.
• 567 people for more than 3 hours.
• 1,578 people for more than 2 hours.
• 2,679 people for more than 1 hour.
• 13,456 people for more than 30 minutes.

And this is what pushes me to keep trying to publish quality content.

Our most-read articles

• How to start a business with no money
• The mindset of an entrepreneur: Donald Trump
• Steve Jobs’s early days at Apple
• The only secrets to getting rich
• The 10 jobs of the future

Our most retweeted article was, sadly, our controversial piece on Menéame (a Spanish social news site):

• Menéame gets a failing grade: karma, penalties, inequality and passivity

Overall I’m satisfied with the results, although I know I could have done much better. The lack of time is starting to show, so I’ll try to find a solution, and of course I’m keeping in mind every suggestion you’ve sent me through the comments.

During 2011 I’ll try to get in touch with some professionals in the field to find ways for readers to interact with one another and take an active part in our site, and once again, I’m open to suggestions from readers on this. The goal I have in mind is to reach 10,000 visits a day before the end of 2011.

I’d like to thank each and every one of you who reads us, follows us and leaves positive comments, because you’re the ones who keep me motivated to carry on with this site every day.

And yes… I haven’t forgotten a figure some of you asked for. For those wondering whether you can earn a meaningful income from a blog or website, the answer is that this month we’ve already reached €950 in income, which means we’ll close it above €1,000.

Once again, thank you all very much, and thank you for your trust.

Featured image: Nic McPhee, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr.