My Posterous blog's performance in year one

I signed up for Posterous in mid-December of 2009, but I didn't really start posting until January 28th, 2010. So its been just over a year since I've really been active on this blog.

I started the blog because I wanted to quit Facebook and still have a way to share the sorts of stuff I was sharing on my FB feed. I didn't like the idea that I had a 'captive audience' because

1. I didn't want to impose on my friends and acquaintances,

2. I felt I was providing FB with free content for little in return and

3. I felt I could reach a broader audience outside of FB. 

I decided to run some analytics on the blog's usage and I found some kind-of-cool info that I'll share with you below. Looking over these stats, I think I hit all my goals pretty well.

 

The basics of it are that people tend to come to my blog either looking for me or pretty randomly. They typically only look at the one post they land, so they don't stay very long and explore.

This means either they found exactly what they wanted, got it and left, or they found nothing at all of use and left. 

If I want to grow my blog, I either need more friends who want to look for me or I need to find a way to make content related to my visitors more visible to them with some sort of keyword filter. 

 

Overall, though, I'm pretty pleased with the year one and am excited about year two.

From Posterous' analytics:

• 383 Posts
• Average of 26 posts per month
• 27,051 site loads, for an average of 71 views per post (according to Posterous' very liberal standards)
•  Most popular post: 1,372 views

 

Google Analytics (since March 28, 2010)

• 1,647 visitors
• 1,326 unique visitors
• 2,748 pages viewed
• 80% new visitors, 20% returning visitors
• Visitors from 47 countries 
• Top Countries:
  1. USA          - 1,338 visitors
  2. Canada      - 65 
  3. Greece       - 46 
  4. UK             - 37
  5. India           - 20
  6. Netherlands -17
  7. Brazil          - 13
  8. Australia      - 12
  9. Germany     - 11
  10. France        - 7

• Top US States
  1. New York - 532
  2. California  - 101
  3. South Carolina - 71
  4. Texas - 64
  5. New Jersey - 62
  6. Massachussets - 58
  7. Pennsylvania - 48
  8. Florida - 38
  9. North Carolina - 31
  10. Illinois - 30

• Top post: 257 views 

Statcounter (since January 31, 2011

• 353 page views
• 310 unique visitors
• 83% new visitors, 17% returning visitors
• Most popular page: 65 views (homepage)
• Top Countries
  • US - 71% 
  • Canada 7%
  • India 5%
  • UK 3%
• Top States
  1. New York
  2. California
  3. New Jersey
  4. Florida
  5. Texas 
  6. Pennsylvania
  7. Virginia
  8. South Carolina
  9. Massachussets
  10. Illinois