This is post #200 on the site since I started it about a year ago. A few stats about the site now:
- East Asia Student has received 317 comments so far, averaging 1.6 per post.
- It currently receives around 3000 unique visitors a month, with 11000 page views between them.
- The RSS feed has 51 subscribers.
- The average visitor looks at 3.5 pages before leaving.
- East Asia Student now has a Google PageRank of 3.
- The majority of visitors are from the US, followed by China and then the UK.
- Visitors come from 90 different countries in total.
- The site has earned about £80 in the year, mostly from the Skritter affiliate scheme and Amazon sales.
I’ve used JostHost throughout this first year without any problems. I also use Amazon Cloudfront and Cloudflare to speed the site up a bit.
So, a fairly modest first year, although it’s better than what I expected when I started out. Now, back to those Lu Xun translations…
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Congratulations on the milestone! I always look forward to your tweets and blog posts, it’s been a long time since I took Chinese (decades!) and it helps bring some of it back.
Thanks, I’m really glad to hear it!
Sutiben is one of those 51 rss subscribers. A recent, maybe 6 months?, subscriber.
200? (^O^)／ YAY! Congrats!
Some of your stuff is advanced like the Lu Xun translations, but there’s lots of small stuff for sutiben.
Keep going!
Great! Let me know if there’s anything else you’d like me to cover.
That’s awesome. Congrats! 200 posts in one year is excellent. I’m curious how do you track your statistics? Google Analytics?
It is indeed Google Analytics!
Gratz on the 200 entries milestone. You write very well and it is always useful to read you tips on learning. jono1001
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