The Next Web

TheNextWeb.org: Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Written on July 30, 2008 – 12:28 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

On May 27, 2008 I reported here that we had received 32,000 unique visitors in the last 30 days. Since then we have written another 266 posts which brings our total to 824. Those posts are attracting more visitors every day. In the last 30 days we attracted 95,000 unique visitors!

Today we also passed another milestone: 4000 feed subscribers!

Check out that graph. How many subscribers will we have in 12 months? If you haven’t subscribed yet you can do that now by clicking here.

The most popular search terms:
1: nasza klasa
2: nico nico douga
3: the next web
4: leah culver
5: nasza-klasa
6: photofree
7: snagfilm

Our top 3 most viewed posts. Not sure if that is the same as ‘popular’ but it is the only thing I can find easily:

1: Reality in Sweden: download a HD DVD in two seconds
2: 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia
3: Nasza-klasa: Polish example of the copy-cat approach

We are getting a lot of views from StumbleUpOn and news.ycombinator.com lately.

I would have loved to include more detailed graphs about our stats but I guess this one just sums it all up better than any other graph I can think of:

Keep reading, commenting, sharing and sending in tips and thanks for sticking with us…

I hope you like that post!

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TheNextWeb.org: Moving up in the world!

Written on May 27, 2008 – 2:52 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

According to Technorati there are more than 120 million blogs, up from 100,000 in 2003. Starting a blog is easy but maintaining it is harder. Only 7 million are actively updated at least every 3 months.

As you know this blog is updated every day and 7 days a week since we officially launched on January 7, 2008 and it seems that we are doing a good job because today we entered the ‘top 5000′ of the most authoritative blogs in the world.

We still have a long way to go (our rank is Rank: 4,564 so there are still 4463 in front of us) until we make it to the top 100 blogs. But we can dream, right?

In the mean time keep sending us tips, placing comments and linking to us and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS feed if you haven’t yet.

A few more statistics about thenextweb.org: 32000 unique visitors in the last 30 days spent and average of 2 minutes and 13 seconds per visit on our 558 posts. The most common way of visiting our site is via Google Reader and Netvibes. People came to our blog by searching for “the next web” (137), “htc diamond” (125) “next web” (115) “nico nico douga” (105), “olsen twins” (91), “nextweb” (83) and “something funny” (72).

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