Somehow I let the 50,000-visit mark go by unremarked here. In the interest of full transparency to my readers, I thought I’d publish some recent numbers about this site and talk about what I’d like to do here in the future.
As you can see, most days here at JackBaruth.com, Your Source For All Things Jack Baruth, we average 200-300 visits. Some days have been bigger than that and some smaller. I haven’t broken down the stats too much but the average viewer looks at 1.5 pages, which is a fancy way of saying that about half of my visitors go to the front page and read a post and the other half are sent directly to a particular post from Twitter or Facebook or TTAC or something else.
About five percent of visitors arrive directly from a search engine. Let’s see what they want:
Not surprisingly, “Jack Baruth” is the number one term. Matsumoku, Jared, all that makes sense. But what about the term “your not a slut, I promise”, which has led twenty different people here? I swallowed my revulsion at the “your not”, Googled the phrase, and didn’t find this site anywhere. The phrase doesn’t appear on this site. And I’ve never made that promise to a woman. Some women are sluts. Some aren’t. The definition of a “slut” is:
slut: Some broad who eagerly hooked it up with another guy I know but does not return my Facebook messages
Haven’t met too many sluts in my life, wink wink.
My advice to the young men and women who are arriving here with that phrase as their guide is simple:
If you don’t want to get pregnant, always use a condom. If you don’t care, at least use a condom with anybody who looks poor or lives in a diverse neighborhood, and make sure to ALWAYS use proper grammar.
What can I say? If you show up with a regrettable search phrase, you’re going to get offensive but sound advice.
What does the future hold for this site? Well, I’d like to publish someone else’s writing besides my own. If you’d like to write about, um, pretty much anything, and you’d like an average of 250 people to read your article (all-time leading post: “Road & Track July 2013” with 4,713 reads. Least popular ever: “I Like The Trike”, with 45), then by all means, shoot me a line and let me know, or post beneath and I’ll email you.
As always, thanks for visiting — JB
I feel like I have something I could add to the conversation, but I don’t know what. I’d love to talk more because I really do enjoy writing.
Some ideas I have…
-long term ownership of a hobby car that’s not a Porsche
-Possible and ongoing mechanical tasks and upgrades to said hobby car (include the agony of analyzing which ones to pursue)
-Camaros and Corvettes through the years that I love/hate
-Why I don’t own Porsches anymore, and how I could be convinced to own them again
-Owning and driving cars that are more than 30, 40, and 50 years old
-Women (you may have that subject covered)
-Bird hunting
-Shotguns
-The ennui of life as a married, rapidly aging, upper middle class white guy.
I spent half a decade at 1.4 page views per visitor. It has now crept up to nearly 3. It doesn’t hurt, of course, that there are 20,000 pages to peruse.
And 2,957 is good enough to beat every day I’ve ever had except for half a dozen.
I’m not sure I’d be the person to write it, but something like hooniverse’s now infrequent wrenching tips would be awesome.
I call shenanigans. I read the trike entry and there were way too many comments to have been just 45 readers. No way the commenter to lurker ratio is higher than 1:10. I think someone is underreporting your stats.
Hmmm…. I may take you up on the offer of a forum for some writing.