Every journey begins with the first step and after the first two months I can say I’ve passed the first step of a very long trip. So, I want to show a summary of my blog stats as a milestone.

Visitors and Site Ranking

In the passed 2 month, “Just Talk About Web” (JTAW) blog has welcome about 19,000 visitors (i.e. 367 visitors/day in average) who viewed over 50,000 pages. Our visitors come from 127 countries/territories; about 36.7% are from the United States and 6.7% from UK.

Over 67% of visitors reached JTAW blog via referrers like Dzone, Digg and other social bookmarking sites. Google Search brought 4135 visits which equals to 98.1% of total traffic by search engines while Yahoo forwarded only 14 visits even less than 25 visits passed by Windows Live.

Up to now, JTAW blog has got 73 feed subscriptions according to the latest stats by FeedBurner. I know it’s not exactly number of feed subscribers but the average daily active readers via RSS. As you can see about 27% of feed readers reached my blog daily — it’s quite a good ratio, I reckon.

A majority of JTAW blog visitors are using Firefox (71.64%), only 18.15% of our readers are still surfing web on IE while 5.13% are using Safari.

Windows is still the dominant OS used by our readers with 73.95% but over one forth of our visitors are using Mac and Linux.

Just a few days ago, I saw my blog’s (Google) PageRank changing from “N/A” to “0″. Yes, it’s nothing, zero but this means Google has begun to rank the site and I can expect it’ll get higher in the next few months. JTAW has Alexa’s rank of 477,723 and Technorati’s rank of 395,824 – far from top 100,000 but I guess it’s not too bad for a two month-old site.

Posts

I’ve written 45 articles; a bit less than what I target is one article per day. There are two reasons why I cannot update my blog daily: first, I have a full-time job so sometimes I find no time left for blogging and second, writing review of a service or application often takes lots of time for I like using/testing it as a normal user then I can share step-by-step guides on how to make use of it.

For a strange reason, the humorous article about Hubble space telescope attracting a lot of traffic from Google image search so the “Popularity Contest” stats show it’s the hottest article but Google Analytics just ranks it the fifth popular post. Here is list of most-viewed articles:

1. Firebug for Firefox 3 (3,301 pageviews)
2. Building RESTful Application in Rails 2.0 Step-by-Step (2,388 pageviews)
3. CSS Web 2.0 Glossy Text (1,945 pageviews)
4. Creating Website with WebNode.com (1,304 pageviews)
5. Hubble Space Telescope 2.0 (1,228 pageviews)

I can see that Firefox 3 and Firebug are hot, RESTful Rails app is hot too and everyone seems like to see new CSS techniques.

Personally, I love writing tutorials, sharing experience and creating tools that help other bloggers.

Ad and Monetizing

Ad and monetizing of a blog is one of the most discussed topics on the net today. I know some people can earn their livings by blogging and a few special cases, some blog owners earn millions of bucks annually. But it’s not uncommon that many can earn one or two dollars each month from Adsense only.

I don’t think I can earn my living by blogging at least in near future but I want my blog can pay for itself. I’m using ads from 3 sources: Google Adsense, Kontera (PPC) and CJ (affiliate). PPC ads contributes over a haft of ad revenue while affiliate programs do not play as well as I thought. Here are figures of ad revenue:

Google Adsense	$26.53
Kontera	$1.80
CJ’s Affiliate	$25.00
TOTAL	$53.33

Well, I assume that this blog can pay for itself and by the end of the year I may have a little extra money for eating out with friends if I can get money from Google and CJ. However, seeing the figures I think blog monetizing is often over-rated. Right?

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