10,000 Visits (Updated)

Authentic Personality has been visited over 10,000 since October according to StatCounter. Most people don’t stay long and few return, so it probably isn’t something to toot one’s (my) horn about, but it looks good.

The more important statitistic is how many “absolute returning visitors” I am getting per week. This counts anyone who comes back to AP. According to Google Analytics, at this time it looks like there are 35 returning readers per week. That’s gone up from about 21 in the last few weeks. So if we only count absolute unique visitors, AP has been visited 672 times. If I take how many returning visitors came to my site this week (35) and divide by the total number who came to the site (348), I see that I am retaining about one percent of the total traffic which comes here. Probably if I remove poeple that are friends and family that drops to maybe eight tenths of a percent.

Matt Drudge, I aint.

Tashidelek!

Update:

Okay, my first number was off - in so many ways. First my math was wrong - 35/348 is 10 percent, minus family and friends is 8 percent. Got my decimal wrong, but even more important than that - to really see what my retention rate is, I need to divide the number of regularly returning visitors with the total number of visitors who have ever come to this site. 35/10000 is .0035. Move my decimal and you see my retention rate is 0.35 percent. Let’s round that up to .4% retention rate.

Matt Druge, I aint.