Life and Dots of Daniel

Exactly Two – The Unseen Statistics

Call it peer pressure or marvelling in virtual vanity, I dreamed of one day having my name in lights. Perhaps a name in Science Direct for my composite slab research works. Maybe as a legacy which I can leave behind after calling it a day on Earth. Suffice to say, none of these are going to happen yet. I still dream this dream. On a happier note, acquiring my own domain name and slowly building up my presence.

Let’s get done with my dream. Exactly two happened exactly two years after 19 December 2007. I shall close my eyes to my previous blogs because I have no statistics to swank about. In fact, I did not care about the statistics back then.

Most of my friends probably know that I first started blogging to post announcement on assignments, making commitments in front of my witnesses (my friends) and probably update my current state of life. From a small circle of university friends, slowly I get to know some other new people who visited my blog (and is still loyal) and those whom I dropped by their blog. That was how it all started - sweet thing.

I remember vividly back then I really like to experiment with different themes. Young, naive and curious I was back then. So much so that people start "complaining". Now, I stick to my favourite theme like a sticky tape on a piece of paper.

Inspired by Marvin, I decided to follow his suit - to evaluate this blog.

Analytics for 2008

Analytics for 2009

Looking at Google Analytics, I sub divide the statistics to two years - 2008 and 2009. I only learned about Google Analytics four months after setting this blog, hence there is no complete data for 2008. Taking average, in 2008 my daily visits is 66 while monthly visits stands at 1,978. In 2009, this blog welcomed 100 daily visits and roughly 3,014 visits monthly. However there is no significant growth for page views, which I have no idea why (perhaps you can tell me ).

To date this blog has received 2,630 comments and 9,218 spams (filtered by Akismet). Hmm...

From my Feed Burner, I get to know that I have 40 plus friends following my updates and my occasional rants. I know you are reading this, I just want to let you know that your quiet presence is my moral support. Thank you. I wonder if my quiet readers will come to me say HI one day when we bump into each other on the streets of KL?

Soalan cepu emas (golden question): How much do I earn from blogging after I decided to received ads? So far I managed to earn a total of USD70.67 from Google Adsense and sponsors combined. I also have RM88.30 from the local Nuffnang. Not much actually, but enough to pay for my domain hosting. Despite this modest amount, I shall take this as a stepping stone to achieve more.

There are a lot of improvement to be made for the long term. For the time being, I learned that it is important to be persistent, consistent, truthful and thoughtful in blogging.