I measure the success of this and my other blogs/web sites by three criteria: 1) how useful they are to me when I’m looking for information that I wanted to track; 2) number of page views; and 3) number of discussion group posts.
When it comes to page views, last week was the busiest week here ever with almost 160,000 page views served (that’d be 8.3 million page views annually if I could sustain that level of traffic year round).
And as for the discussion group, today the total number of posts on all of my sites hit the 80,000 mark. That’s millions and millions of words about every topic under the Sun — and a surprisingly high signal-to-noise ratio.
As for the last (but most important part), like many people when I want to find out pretty much anything I usually turn to Google first. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised at just how often I do a Google search on something and it returns exactly the information I needed . . . except it happens to be a page on my site (this happens a lot with the animal rights stuff).