2011, the twelvemonth inwards review
So it makes experience for a weblog to possess got an annual review too. Here's mine.
Thanks to BloggerSentral, whose 2011 Statistics post inspired me to write this.
The numbers
The tools don't tell me what the subscriber numbers were inwards 2010, exactly at the terminate of December 2011, Blogger-HAT had
- 419 Feedburner subscribers, of whom,
- 103 are email subscribers (79 active, 24 pending verification).
- 259 followers inwards Google Friend Connect
- 58 Facebook fans
- 55 Followers inwards Twitter
- 7 people who had added BloggerHAT's Google+ page to a circle
- 199 posts: you're reading the 200th right now. This could would possess got been higher, exactly I deleted to a greater extent than or less especially useless ones during the twelvemonth - run across Achievements.
Traffic:
The publish of visits per month per month:
Conclusion: traffic grew pretty steadily through the year:
Top traffic sources:
Conclusions:
Source: Google / organic (ie search results) 79351 57% Google.com / referral (ie Help Forum) 41092 29% Direct 12606 9% Google.XXX (search from various countries receive Google sites) 3096 2% Blogger.com / referral 827 1% Feedburner / feed 718 1% Search / organic 397 0% Google translation 280 0% 191 0% Facebook.com 154 0% Swagbucks.com / referral 100 0% Ask / organic 87 0% Aol / organic 76 0% Feedburner / email 67 0% Too-clever-by-half.blogspot.com / referral 58 0% Yahoo / organic (ie search results) 58 0%
- This weblog is existent dependent champaign on Google, equally good equally gets virtually no "Binhoo" traffic (ie from other search engines) - I'd suffer worried, except that it's reasonable that most Blogger users testament work Google to search.
- Almost tertiary traffic comes from questions I answer on Blogger-help-form: this is worth doing.
- BHAT is starting to acquire links from a brand it at of other sites: this is probable something to operate on.
The most popular posts were no surprise - y'all lot tin flame run across them inwards the widget on the sidebar.
The bounce-rate is quite high, though (between 55 equally good equally 70%) - equally good equally it's been increasing steadily. This is probable something to operate on, it may suffer related to the publish of articles that inquire updating for the Sept-2011 interface change.
Screen resolution
People popular off on maxim that this matters, equally good equally that we inquire to pattern for smaller screens. And personally I've been using a Netbook a lot recently, because it's exclusively thence portable. But it doesn't await similar Blogger-HAT visitors are working similar that:
Screen Width (px) % of total visits Less than 320 wide 0.33% 300 - 767 wide 0.76% 768 - 1023 wide 1.56% 1024 - 1151 wide 15.62% 1152 - 1278 wide 1.86% 1280 + wide 79.88% Grand Total 100.00%
Conclusion:
Mobile may suffer "hot" - exactly nestling enshroud aren't beingness used when people wishing information most how to work Blogger. Personally, I'm picking that most of my 80% of visitors using broad screens do possess got nestling enshroud devices - they exclusively work them for different things.
Achievements:
The large success of the twelvemonth was a re-write over every single post: during 2011, every post inwards Blogger-HAT was reviewed: the format was standardised, equally good equally the contents reviewed. For many articles, this meant a destination re-write, or splitting ane post into iii or iv smaller topics. This physical care for started inwards piece of cake April, equally good equally in conclusion finished on 31 December with a total re-write of Combining a forwarding-address equally good equally mail2Post, thence y'all lot know who posted what.
This is also the twelvemonth when I started to convey social media seriously: Blogger-HAT's activity at that spot is fifty-fifty thence nestling (I'd rather focus 4th dimension on researching novel content), exactly growing.
Plans for 2012:
I'm exclusively most to launch Blogger-HAT-Lite where I tin flame business office quick exactly unresearched notes most announcements cast other products that may touching on Blogger users.
Updating existing articles to include "new blogger interface" information is a large priority. Anything tagged YY - needs Sept11 review still needs to suffer done. Right now, that's 149 articles.
I cry upwards that customizing mobile equally good equally dynamic templates testament suffer a hot dependent champaign inwards 2012 - although existent niche-specific. I'd dearest to investigate this, exactly non sure enough if I'll acquire 4th dimension to operate on it. But I noticed of tardily that Southern Speakers has been doing a goodness publish of posts most how to modify dynamic template blogs using CSS, thence perhaps I won't bother.
Lastly, I've started to a greater extent than or less other weblog that involves cataloging music equally good equally song books on a existent specific topic. Blogger is a fantastic base of operations of operations for sharing this material, especially the "detailed song information" behind it. But I'm building the content for a detailed database, equally good equally perhaps I'll suffer looking for a tool that lets visitors request structured database queries (not exclusively searches) equally good equally too so shows publish sets inside posts. Any hints on options for this are welcome.
What do y'all lot think?
At the terminate of most annual reviews, the boss looks over his/her glasses equally good equally says "Overall, I'm ranking your performance every fleck <whatever>" for the year".
I'm a flake brusk of bosses inwards this "job" - exactly would dearest to convey away psyche how Blogger-HAT could do a improve chore inwards 2012. You know where to discovery the comments-box, exclusively under the page-links section, thence please permit me convey away psyche your thoughts.
Related Articles:
Combining a forwarding-address equally good equally mail2Post, thence y'all lot know who posted what. (2011's in conclusion edited post)
Removing the attribution gadget from your blog (this year's most popular post, past times times far).
Adding a Facebook Like, Send or Share button (in second place)
Setting upward Google Analytics on your blog (if y'all lot wishing to acquire your receive statistics)
Finding out how many e-mail subscribers y'all lot have