Quarterly Update - April to June 2009

Posted July 3rd, 2009 in Monthly Roundup

At the start of this year I outlined some goals for the year for this blog. This included gowing the numbers of monthly pageviews from 60k to 600k and the number of RSS subscribers from 100 to 1000. Now that we're two quarters of the way through the year it's time to have another look and see how it's all going and if I'm on target.

Please note there will be a second on-topic post (a jQuery one to do with counting words in a textarea or input field) later on today.

To achieve a tenfold gain like this requires a 21.15% increase month on month of pageviews and 21.65% month on month growth for RSS subscribers. As shown in the table below I'm getting it right with the RSS subscribers and I think the growth is realistic but I think it pretty unlikely I'll get to the 600k pageviews mark by the end of the year.

Traffic's been growing by around 15k pageviews per month since the start of the year so I've adjusted the "required" column for pageviews to a growth of 15k per month which results in 250k pageviews per month in December. I think this is more realistic.

	Pageviews			RSS Subscribers
Month	Required	Actual	Growth	Required	Actual	Growth
December 2008		60,073			95
January 2009	75,000	75,372	25.5%	116	115	21.1%
February 2009	90,000	90,009	19.4%	141	150	30.4%
March 2009	105,000	108,698	20.8%	172	165	10.0%
April 2009	120,000	114,942	5.74%	209	200	21.2%
May 2009	135,000	141,812	23.38%	254	240	20.0%
June 2009	150,000	158,369	11.68%	309	310	29.2%
July 2009	175,000			376
August 2009	190,000			457
September 2009	205,000			556
October 2009	220,000			676
November 2009	235,000			822
December 2009	250,000			1000