Growing strong for the last six months

In the spirit of being open, I thought I'd share a few stats with some folks.

1) unique visitors for the last six months


April so far puts us about 20% above March, which is fantastic, as our growth has accelerated somewhat.

2) pageview metrics for the past six months

We all know pageviews only tell part of the story - given our extensive use of ajax since we relaunched in September, if we had the "old" method of doing a few things, pageviews per user would be 40% higher. However, our current model, we believe, is much better for end users.

Obviously, I blurred out some of the specifics for competitive reasons. Given the growth rate above, is it any wonder why people say Alexa stats suck? Yep, their charts in no way reflect our growth rates. And, the actual numbers are higher than these (these were from Google Analytics) because a portion of the time, any web based beacon will not work, responsd, drop something, etc.

We're happy, but as we've not (yet) crossed the million page view per month number, we definitely have work to do. Based on my calculations, we'll get there at the current rate of growth by the end of May.