These are the consolidated traffic stats for the City’s blog home page. They show the traffic at the blog site over the past three years. In year #1, most, if not all, of the traffic is mine alone. But starting in 2004, the traffic is impacted by the addition of blogs from Fire Chief George Esbensen and Police Chief Dan Carlson.
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know much about analyzing internet website traffic data. I’m sure that I have readers that could tell me whether this data is good, bad, or otherwise. I’m told that the number of unique visitors to the blog site each month is a good stat to watch. Tracking just that stat in December of each year shows that it doubled from 2003 to 2004 and doubled again from 2004 to 2005. That’s probably good.
I also know that in December 2005 there were 3,371 “pageviews” for my individual blog homepage and 4,057 pageviews of my individual blog RSS feed, but someone out there will have to interpret those two numbers for me.
There are more people out there like me that are using the blog medium to connect with citizens. I’m on the lookout all the time for ways to make this blog more interesting and valuable to the people that read it. Later this spring our blog site will be changing hosts. We think the new host will allow us to be more innovative in the future.
My personal innovation goal this year: The official City Manager Friday Podcast. Look for it here….later this year.
