Back in 1996 when I put up my first web page, I had one of those cheesy counters and was happy whenever it went up 6 or 7 notches in a day. For 2001, I averaged almost 8,300 page views each day across my web sites, meeting my goal of 3 million page views for the year. That’s 39 gigabytes worth of data transferred in 2001 — or almost 110 megabytes a day.
For 2002, the goal is at least 4 million page views which should be pretty easy to achieve (the last four months of 2002 I averaged more than 11,300 page views each day).
Over the past few months I have really focused on my Animal Rights site, which proved to be time well-spent. The first four months of 2001, it averaged only 23,000 page views each month, but the last four months racked up an average 64,200 page views per month.
For 2002, I’ll be taking all of the things I learned and worked up there, and concentrating on applying them to the other sites I run (including this site).