A Thousand Per Day: A Milestone

In reviewing our numbers, we realized that we crossed a little milestone on October 12: we have over 1,000 readers subscribed to our RSS feed (either via e-mail or something like Google Reader).

That’s not a count of the number of people reading us every day because some subscribers won’t actually read every article and there are lots of folks who visit the site directly via the web instead of subscribing, but it’s a handy milestone.

Another handy metric is “Absolute Unique Visitors”. That’s the measure of how many people visited the web site at least once during the past month. According to The Google, Wallyhood had 5,546 Absolute Unique Visitors in the past month and 35,168 page views (and that doesn’t count the RSS readers we mentioned above). Considering the size of Wallingford and the fact that our first post was just back in January, we’d say that’s just dandy.

Sorry for the crowing, but when you’re proud, you want to share.

And, at the risk of being crass, now seems like a good time to remind you that if you’d like to support what we’re doing, you’re invited to sponsor Wallyhood. We only ask $100 / month, and we’ve even built our own little “ad network” with our neighbors to the north, My Green Lake, allowing you to sponsor both blogs for $150 / month.

Barring that, though, if you do like what you’re reading, we have two small asks for you:

• Tell someone whom you think might be interested about us. We grow by word of mouth.
• Leave comments on the stories that interest you with your thoughts. This is all so much more fulfilling when it’s a conversation, rather than a broadcast.