Here a a graph of my blog traffic since my anime blog began (minus the one day in February 2006 that it existed and minus the current month):
You’ll notice a rather steady increase of traffic - which is good. The large jump in January 2007 is rather a mystery. I had a significantly large jump in traffic on the 14th and 15th of the month, were those two days made up around a third of the total visits for the month. Without those two days, January would fit in pretty nicely with the steady increase in traffic.
I’m not sure what caused this. This is well after the announcement of Haruhi being licensed in December (my post on the counter glitch, revealing the licensor did get linked by some people) and was before I found out my comments were broken on the old blogging software I was using then (so it wasn’t caused my my host and I repeatedly hitting the website trying to get it to work). Podcast Episode 7 was posted on the 13th, but I don’t see why a single podcast would make the visits jump that much.
In any case, taking into consideration this strangeness, and the fact that February was a short month, I’ve made steady progress, except for taking a big dip from May to June (possibly for not posting all that much during that period). After the June dip, I hit 500 “unique” visitors again in November, hit 1000 in January, and last month saw the most yet at over 1200. I’m on pace so far in April to beat March out for the most unique visitors.
For comparison, I’ve gotten about as much traffic 11 days into April as I did the entire month of October (I have more unique visitors but fewer visits). I already have more total visits this year as I did in all of 2006. (I also have more unique visitors, but since those are bounded by month, an annual count of unique visitors isn’t fully accurate).
