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Hey everyone! Another year has passed and it's now 3 years since I've been blogging here on catonmat! In this post I wish to summarize this year's statistics.
See the one year of blogging and two years of blogging for previous year statistics.
First of all traffic statistics,
Traffic statistics for the period 2009-07-01 - 2010-07-01 from Google Analytics.
Alright, so catonmat has received 1.43 million visitors and 2.11 million page views during this year. That's 120k visits and 175k page views per month. Or 4,000 visitors per day and 5,800 page views per day. Good numbers.
Let's look at the whole traffic picture from the day one of blogging,
Traffic statistics for the period 2007-07-01 - 2010-07-01 from Google Analytics.
Looks pretty random but seems to have a hidden linear trend upwards.
Now the FeedBurner subscriber stats,
Feedburner statistics for the period 2009-07-01 - 2010-07-01.
Last year I left off with 7000 subscribers, and now I have around 12,000. That's 5000 new subscribers, or 13 new subscribers per day on average.
And the whole picture of subscriber dynamics since the beginning of blogging,
Feedburner statistics for the period 2007-07-01 - 2010-07-01.
Also a nice positive trend, if it keeps going the same way, I expect to have around 17,000 subscribers the next year.
Now to articles. During this year I have written 43 articles. Here are ten most popular ones:
- Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa (194,417 views).
- Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained (155,079 views).
- A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof (59,204 views).
- ldd arbitrary code execution (55,833 views).
- Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures (54,954 views).
- Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use) (53,825 views).
- The Busy Beaver Problem (52,238 views).
- Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim (35,735 views).
- Secret Perl Operators (34,346 views).
- A HTTP Proxy Server in 20 Lines of node.js Code (31,822 views).
Here are my personal favorites that didn't make it into top ten:
- On the Linear Time Algorithm For Finding Fibonacci Numbers.
- Recursive Regular Expressions.
- On Functors.
- Deriving the Y-Combinator.
- Donald Knuth's First Computer.
It's now time for delicious cake:
Let's meet for cake the next year again! See you!
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conggratulations... good work
thanks!
Your posts are always a pleasure to read, I usually go away slightly more educated than before.
Great work, I hope you keep it up and it never becomes a chore.
Since it's your third year computer/programming blog birthday, on your cake, should you not have maybe 8 candles, with just the last 2 lit?
good thinking, i am going to do the candles thing next year. :)
congratz, keep on blogging!
yep.
4 MORE YEARS
yes sir!
Wow, I didn't realize this blog was so popular. I found you by stumbling onto your "Fibonacci miles-kilometers conversion" post, BTW. Great stuff :) Keep up the good work, may you reach a million subscribers soon :D
thanks!
Thats great. Yours is an awesome work and glad to see 3 full years had passed :)
Wishing you many such more successful years :)
Cheers,
Raghavan alias Saravanan M.
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/summary-of-mit-introduction-to-algorithms
Of course, this is the post which really (guess Google or through some other post) took me to your website. :) -- which I have also forwarded to my friends!
This is not only a prosperous blog, but a certified cradle of modern thinking!
Congratulations Peter!
Great work buddy! Keep going.
Hi Peteris,
Great work and wishing you lot more success in years to come.
I found your blog posts where you uploaded notes to open courseware lectures to be very inspiring.
I have just started an experiment of a do-it-yourself masters in computer science using open courseware and social learning.
Thanks for being one of the inspirations for this experiment.
Thanks for all the wishes, everyone! :)
thanks for the cake and the good work.
By far, the best blog i found in a long time.
Why is there a spike in early June on the subscriber number graph?
I can't really tell. Most likely Feedburner bugs as usual.
Good going men. lots of congrats for continuing ur generously great work :-)
keep gng,
btw on 10th birthday, v'l like to have real cake :-P
happy birthday *to your blog* :-)
hhmmm... amazing stats!
Out of curiosity: What's your biggest traffic source?
Same as the last year. Reddit, Hacker News, Stumbleupon.
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