55K visitors on monday - we're thrilled
The reason this blog is seldom, if ever, updated is pretty simple: we're really busy. Case in point. Last month, we had 1.17 million visitors.
So far month to date for Jan, we've had 1.3 million, and on Monday, we had 55K visitors to the site. Thus the run rate for the month is 1.4 million, more than 20% above December (which was our previous record).
Thus any number of things change:
1) Gui needs constant tweaking (it can always improve)
2) "Minor" issues become bigger, faster, because of scale
3) Despite the team being larger than ever, and devoting more time to the site, there is simply too much going on for us to keep track of it all.
Though I'm very, very curious what'll happen in the next 6-12 weeks, mainly becuase for Jan, we'll finally be over 1 million US visitors for the month. A lot of the tracking services that people cite (comScore, Quantcast, Neilson, Compete, etc) leverage a US based panel, which means that despite having more than 1 million visitors a month since November, we've not shown up as a site with more than a million uniques becuase they aren't all in the US.
At least, until this month.
Looking back to January, 2007, we had 190K visitors for the month. That's a 736% increase over the last 12 months, which is great.
Tip for anybody who's ignoring us still in the media (yep, that'd be you, you, and most definitely, you):
fastest growing social sites a blog post I made after reading a list over at TC.
Given our growth rate & the knack panel based data has for being very wrong sometimes, I'll expect the reporting agencies to take another 6 months or so before we make such a list. :)
However, I'd have a ton more respect for all the mainstream bloggers if they didn't wait for flawed sample to give them an idea, and instead, actually report on the news as it happens.
Any bets on whether or not they finally notice us?
sutree