Thanks!! MetsPolice.com site stats for June 2011

Here at the half-way mark for 2011 I thought I’d take time out to thank YOU for reading MetsPolice.com.

I decided to share the site stats.  I don’t know if they are good or bad, but I like them, and when I think back to the 8,000 visitors in year 1 they seem nice to me.  Anyway, it’s not like the Donuts Chain is advertising with my secret numbers so here we go…

The site is up 30% over the first 6 months of 2010.  We’ve had over 100,000 absolute unique visitors, and a good 29% of you are checking back at the site more than once a day.  About half the readership are returners, with 47% this year as newbies (welcome!)

For June – it was right on par with May (and April) coming in at 40,000 visits and 110,000 page views with all the loyalty/recency stats about the same.

I know I cpuld use some of the other WordPress stat systems and give you crazy big numbers but these are from Google Analytics which the smart folks tell me is “real.”   (I like the guy on twitter who claims to have more readers than Cerrone does, and I think the poor fellow doesn’t know what he’s saying.  You don’t have 100,000 visits a day sir, sorry.)

Facebook is a tad embarrassing with only 628 friends but I was late to that party (follow the Mets Police page) but Twitter is rocking with 1938 followers, which is a pickup of 500 since the season began – I’ll be in the twitter hang during tonight’s game, join us.

My thanks to Mets Blog and Uni Watch for being the two biggest drivers of traffic outside my control (and wow that Facebook is important, huh?)

Also big time thanks to the Mets (especially you know who you are) for keeping me in the information loop and the occassional super-hookup.

Oh and I guess I should thank Media Goon since I have two major road trips in July and will need him to mind the store.

All in all, not bad for a site about nothing.  Imagine if we did game recaps or actual reporting.  Thanks for reading!