Traffic Blog #100

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, has anyone noticed how fast the blogosphere has been growing? This blog gets about 1500 a day, as much traffic as it ever has received continuously, but its overall traffic ranking has slipped. Or so it seemed.

While the big story may be the big blogs, the Instapundits and the Kos’s, I wanted to see about the medium sized blogs. Using the Wayback Machine to look up TTLB’s Traffic Rankings, here’s what I found.

Blog #100, by Traffic

Jul 09, 2003 - Best of the Blogs (Jerry Bowles) 327 visits/day

Dec 07, 2003 - OTB Backup Site 890 visits/day

Feb 02, 2004 - Off On A Tangent 1006 visits/day

Apr 02, 2004 - South Knox Bubba 1269 visits/day

Jun 06, 2004 - Off the Kuff 1558 visits/day

Aug 13, 2004 - Gut Rumbles 1903 visits/day

Oct 11, 2004 - Swing State Project 4994 visits/day

Nov 02, 2004 - Backcountry Conservative 3916 visits/day

Nov 29, 2004 - Gene Expression 3238 visits/day

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Nov 11, 2005 - The Blue-Gray Sky 7754 visits/day

BTW, the entire Wayback machine project seems to have ended in 2004. Does anyone know why? Or are results hiding elsewhere?

So, my gut feeling that “1500 per day is a lot of traffic” used to be true, eighteen months ago, the equivalent of several geologic epochs.

Comments

  1. Orac wrote:

    It’s hard to say if your impression is correct. There do seem to be more high traffic blogs out there. However, as I survey Sitemeter readings for blogs that make them public, I get the (admittely unscientific) impression that the vast majority of personal blogs get less than 75 visits a day. (Yes, I know I’m nosy, but if a blogger that I read regularly makes his hit counter public, I will check it out.)

    Personally, I just cracked the 1000 visits a day mark recently(consistently–other than weekends–that is). I’m quite happy about it. The rapid growth does appear to have plateaued (or at least slowed down markedly), however. Nonetheless, I am on track for somewhere around 250,000 visits by my first blogiversary.

    Posted 11 Nov 2005 at 7:42 pm

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