According to Dave Pollard’s breakdown, I’m a ‘C-List Blogger’.
Extrapolating some work I did last year, only about 20,000 blogs (a mere 0.4% of all active blogs) have a sizeable audience (more than 10 regular visitors and more than 150 hits per average day), and readership in a typical day is only a little more than three million people, each spending an average of about 20 minutes flitting among 15 blog pages.
Using Shirky’s Power Law, and adding in RSS subscriptions to the hit count totals, that would break today’s blogosphere audience down roughly as follows:
| Total Hits/Day |
Average Hits/Day per Blog |
Minimum Hits/Day per Blog |
Average Aggregate Reader Attention/Day per Blog |
|
| 100 A-list bloggers | 15 million | 150,000 | 15,000 | 1700 hrs |
| 2,000 B-list bloggers | 5 million | 2,500 | 1,000 | 62 hrs |
| 18,000 C-list bloggers | 9 million | 500 | 150 | 13 hrs |
| 80,000 up-and-coming bloggers | 8 million |
100 | 50 | 2.5 hrs |
| 5 million remaining active bloggers | 15 million | 3 | 0 | – |
According to StatCounter, right now I get an average of 968 unique visitors per day — but according to FeedBurner, I have another 319 people watching my site through one of my available RSS feeds (8 subscribed to my comments-only feed, 30 to my excerpts-only feed, 225 to my full-post feed, and 59 to my full-posts-plus-comments feed), which puts me at 1,287 readers per day, placing me on the low end of the ‘B-List’ category.
Of course, the one major caveat to this is that many of those 968 daily visitors are just hits from Google searches, and in order to keep my ego in check, StatCounter is only registering an average of 70 returning visitors per day. Refiguring my numbers that way, that gives me 389 regular daily readers, just under the average in the ‘C-List’ category.
However you want to break it down, though, I think it’s pretty damn cool that I’ve got in the neighborhood of 400 people keeping an eye on my ramblings from time to time.
Now, who are all of you people? ;)
(via Jacqueline)
“Medina” by Outback from the album Dance the Devil Away (1991, 6:26).