Note: For the report from last month where I gave both the yearly and monthly numbers of the traffic to the website, go to the post “Natural Height Growth December 2012 – Monthly And End Of Year Website Traffic Data Report”

One idea for a regular monthly post I have been doing almost since the beginning of the blog are these monthly reports on the traffic. I have been doing them for all the months and this post will be for the month of January in 2013.

Analysis & Interpretation: 

The month of January seems to have been a little slower and I can only assume that the reason the rate of increase in the traffic has been slowing down over time is from the rate of the number of posts being published here decreasing. In the beginning of the blog, There was around 170-180 blog posts put up in just 1 month!! Now the numbers have decreased to only around 30-50 per month.

What we see is that there was almost 34,000 total visits in the month of January, from the 1st day to the 31st day. The average # of people went from around the 850-900 per day mark in December to around 1000 total visitors/day. Around the middle of the month, the website went viral again where the traffic to the website almost increased by 3X from 1000 total visitors/day to almost 3000 total visitors/day. This was written about in the post “Website Traffic Volume Went Through An Extreme Increase And Other Technical Operational Details“. The news stations and national TV networks picking up on the story over the fact that Tanya Angus passed away and I was one of the earliest sites to report on the news and I got it from TheTallestMan.com website.

Sometimes the traffic is below the 1000 mark around the 950 mark, but other days sees the traffic increase to almost 1150 total visitors/day. Something I do see and realize is a problem is that many of the old and regular visitors to the website are not really coming or reading anymore and I wonder what is missing from the website. The website’s growth is indeed slowing down. This is expected since it is harder for larger websites (and larger things in general) to experience the same level of growth that might have been seen when the website was smaller. Going from 100 total visitors/day to 200 total visitors/day is much easier than going from 1000 total visitors/day to 2000. The very fact that a person’s own success can be their own downfall and that is sort of what is happening recently. Much more negative comments and reception have been appearing recently and the website is only getting slower and slower, and harder and harder to edit and change. There is just a lot more information that needs to be edited and changed.

Personal Note: 

On a personal note, I am in a new relationship with someone new so that has been taking up a lot of my time recently. There have been quite a few days when my social and personal obligations have forced me to not update or write for the website but I do find that I am getting a lot of personal satisfaction with this improvement in my life. I sort of realize now that I do my best work and are the most productive when I am single, focused, and slightly angry. That is sort of a hard state to be in at this point.