Originally I started the site back just before Gen Con Indy 2010 last August and was going to have a writer friend working with me. He couldn’t make it to Gen Con last year so I wrote a few articles myself. After that he had a new book come out and that kept him busy, so in January 2011 I decided to just scrap the old site and do the writing myself. The thought of it intimidated me though, as I have never really fancied myself a writer.
I can’t guarantee that anyone but me will be excited by this, but back in February when I trashed my old site, I set some goals. Along the way I decided that if/when I hit 10,000 unique visitors (multiple visits in a month are not counted so that is one visitor per computer counted. Multiple people using the same computer are not counted so it could, in actuality, be higher!) in a month I would start looking at the possibility of getting sponsors and such.
The final statistics for July 2011 are in and, six months after posting the first article to my site, I broke 10,000 unique visitors with a total of 10,584 and 336,749 total hits for the month.
I also posted my 100th article last month and covered Con Bravo! an anime convention in Canada this past weekend so now I can say I have provided international coverage. As far as readership, I know I get readers in a number of countries, Canada being one of the biggest I also get a lot of hits from Europe, Asia, and Mexico.
Earlier this year I had to upgrade my web hosting account due to the quantity of files and photos I had posted making my web space tight.
As soon as I finish this post I will be calling my web host and letting them know that I have posted this and it is time for the second upgrade this year, freeing me up to post more pics and going with unlimited bandwidth as it looked like I would exceed my bandwidth before too long if the site continues to grow as it has.
They said the upgrade will take a couple days. During that time the site will be available but if I make any changes I would lose any updates so I won’t be posting again until they give me the word.
Gen Con 2011 starts Thursday so they said they should be able to do it before then as long as I step back and let them. It seems appropriate as I started this site last year just before Gen Con Indy 2010 and now I am celebrating what I consider significant success just before Gen Con 2011.
So, the bottom line is I am celebrating and at the same time stepping back from the site for two days to let the techs do their thing. I will be at Gen Con Thursday through Sunday so see you there or you can see what is happening there by checking here.
They have an awesome cosplay/masquerade, a zombie walk, and on the gaming available there, there really is no comparison!
See you soon!
Summary by Month | ||||||||||
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Month | Daily Avg | Monthly Totals |
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Hits | Files | Pages | Visits | Sites | KBytes | Visits | Pages | Files | Hits | |
Aug 2011 | 9029 | 8799 | 3082 | 223 | 138 | 310305 | 223 | 3082 | 8799 | 9029 |
Jul 2011 | 10862 | 10203 | 4544 | 341 | 2900 | 13255566 | 10584 | 140879 | 316295 | 336749 |
Jun 2011 | 10473 | 10067 | 1977 | 252 | 3174 | 11629354 | 7566 | 59319 | 302024 | 314202 |
May 2011 | 10056 | 9832 | 952 | 162 | 2239 | 7244908 | 5051 | 29540 | 304818 | 311754 |
Apr 2011 | 4080 | 4021 | 397 | 93 | 1276 | 2385115 | 2819 | 11934 | 120649 | 122400 |
Mar 2011 | 1658 | 1630 | 210 | 61 | 801 | 710719 | 1901 | 6515 | 50553 | 51425 |
Feb 2011 | 564 | 547 | 48 | 12 | 223 | 157471 | 342 | 1371 | 15335 | 15812 |
Jan 2011 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 50 | 1680 | 157 | 264 | 385 | 400 |
Dec 2010 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 874 | 128 | 160 | 271 | 274 |
Nov 2010 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 38 | 792 | 108 | 144 | 235 | 246 |
Oct 2010 | 20 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 55 | 2792 | 122 | 270 | 617 | 622 |
Sep 2010 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 1190 | 79 | 181 | 335 | 336 |
Totals | 35700766 | 29080 | 253659 | 1120316 | 1163249 | |||||
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Thanks Zack! Great to have you out there. When will I see you at an event?
*has a farm fuzzy feeling knowing I was one of those 10,000*
Glad to see you’re reaching your goals man! Keep up the great work!
WOO HOO!!!! Congrats! Hope the upgrade goes well.
Looking forward to GEN CON stuff