Recent Blogging Stats
Mar. 1st, 2024 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's been a while since I've checked in on stats about my blogging. I track metrics mostly out of curiosity but also because long ago I set goals and I like to see how I'm doing compared to my own predictions/expectations.
One thing about setting goals is that I rarely set just a goal. I set a multiplicity of goals. Sometimes it's based on multiple time intervals, like "In 3 months", "In 6 months", and "In 12-18 months". Other times it's a bracket of expectations; low, medium, and high. I used a bracket for my blogging goals:
The chart shows the average daily number of blogs, month by month for the past 14 months.
As you can see from the chart I've been well above my minimum goal of 1/day the whole time. ...Well, if you read the goal as averaging 1/day I'm well above it. What the chart doesn't show is whether I actually blogged every day within a given month. A glance at my monthly table of contents for February shows that I missed 2 days this past month. Those were because of my bouts with sickness— yes, bouts, plural— when I just didn't feel like writing.
You can see in the chart I'm also steadily above my middle target of 1.5/day. A few months, including February weren't far above that mark, while others were. I've beaten my stretch goal of 2/day half the time— 7 out of the past 14 months.
What makes one month busier for blogging than another? Mainly travel, as I've noted before. Last September my gonzo tally of 84 posts (2.8/day average) was because of not one but two adventuring trips. In January I came close to the 2/day average on catching up with blogs from our fantastic trip to Australia in late December. In February I haven't traveled much; just a business trip, and business rarely inspires as many blogs as adventure. Thus it's been a slower month.
One thing about setting goals is that I rarely set just a goal. I set a multiplicity of goals. Sometimes it's based on multiple time intervals, like "In 3 months", "In 6 months", and "In 12-18 months". Other times it's a bracket of expectations; low, medium, and high. I used a bracket for my blogging goals:
- Minimum: Blog at least once a day
- Target: Average 1.5 blogs/day
- Stretch: Average 2 blogs/day
The chart shows the average daily number of blogs, month by month for the past 14 months.
As you can see from the chart I've been well above my minimum goal of 1/day the whole time. ...Well, if you read the goal as averaging 1/day I'm well above it. What the chart doesn't show is whether I actually blogged every day within a given month. A glance at my monthly table of contents for February shows that I missed 2 days this past month. Those were because of my bouts with sickness— yes, bouts, plural— when I just didn't feel like writing.
You can see in the chart I'm also steadily above my middle target of 1.5/day. A few months, including February weren't far above that mark, while others were. I've beaten my stretch goal of 2/day half the time— 7 out of the past 14 months.
What makes one month busier for blogging than another? Mainly travel, as I've noted before. Last September my gonzo tally of 84 posts (2.8/day average) was because of not one but two adventuring trips. In January I came close to the 2/day average on catching up with blogs from our fantastic trip to Australia in late December. In February I haven't traveled much; just a business trip, and business rarely inspires as many blogs as adventure. Thus it's been a slower month.
