Ming’s Wisdom

It’s been around 2 months now since I’ve started this site (technically 8 months, with the first 6 months having no time to write in it), and it’s been a pretty good success for being 2 months old, at least to the standards of what I was expecting. I wanted to let everyone see the current state of my site.

Money spent:

• 19.90 domain
• 22.90 hosting

Money earned:

• 0.00

Unfortunately Google hasn’t seemed smart enough to find interesting enough ads to captivate my lovely readers.

But here’s some more encouraging news:

You can see here that in the two months that I started actively writing for the site, the number of page visits has increased to 55 in July, and 124 in August. Since I don’t have data for January through June, an accurate depiction is to just imagine a flat line at zero from January all the way to June, since there was no content on the site yet. I think this is a pretty good growth, especially considering August isn’t even over yet, and already has double the visits of July.

Another achievement I’m pretty proud of is getting bots to crawl the site. Google crawled the site once in May, and it would be another two months before it crawled again in early July. Now, with multiple pages available and updated content every so often, Google comes several times a day, and I also get other sites like AskJeeves, Yahoo, and some blog search bots. It definitely feels like a sense of accomplishment.

To view the site from a different perspective, here’s a map of the world, color-coded for visitors (only readers, bots are not included) to this site:

To my pleasant surprise, I’ve gotten visitors from several countries. The bulk is still in the U.S, but there’s one from Canada, China, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Netherlands. That’s very cool. In the U.S, I’ve gotten visits from Florida, Michigan, Georgia, and California. Now drilling down into more detail about the biggest cluster of readers:

There’s 7 visits from San Jose, 7 from Sunnyvale, 8 from Berkeley, 6 from Emeryville, 1 from San Francisco, etc, around the ratio I expected. However, the big surprise here is the big orange dot down south. Orange County apparently is the one largest concentration of readers of this site to date, and they come back repeatedly and stay for enough time to read a few articles. And the interesting thing is, I don’t know of anyone that knows about this site who is currently in Southern California, so I’m very intrigued who the mystery reader(s) are =).

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