Scott's Thoughts #3: 5,000 Blog Views! - Insights.

So I was very happy to see that my blog has now had over 5,000 views as of this morning; thanks!  This is a milestone for sure.  To mark the occasion, I decided to share a few stats and insights.

• Insight #1 While I have gotten all those views, I only have nine subscribers.  I am not sure what it will take to entice more of my visitors to sign up.  To be clear, neither I nor the service I use for subscriptions will share your email address with anyone!  I removed the ads to make it a better experience.  I don’t send more than 2-3 emails a week on average.   Maybe I need to tweak the look a bit?  I know Andy Toomey gave me some suggestions that I need to look into.  What do you think?  Comment below.

• That leads me to insight #2, only two comments have been posted, and one of them is mine.  I would sure like to see more.

• Insight #3 a few stats!

• My most viewed post, by far, is my tier list of the Top 100 Prog Artists of All Time from a Prog Magazine Poll where I rank the artists from the list as per my preferences ... .I might need to post more of those!

• The second most viewed post is my Introduction post, which pleases me that many visitors are reading that one.

• The most viewed album review is for IQ’s “Dominion” with PrYzme’s “True Stories…and Other Lies”, and Moon Letters’ "This Dark Earth” close behind.

• My most popular Spotlight post on the blog is the one on Triumph. Although it is considerably lower than the most popular reviews. I truly enjoy the spotlights, though, so I will continue to write them! The Windmill and Beardfish are the next two most viewed Spotlights.

• I only have one post with no views at all: the review of Haken’s “Fauna”.  Although my spotlight on them has a fair amount of views and the review of “The Mountain” has a few.

My ultimate vision for this site is to make it a destination where people go to learn about different artists and their music.  I want to benefit the reader as well as the artists I have chosen to write about.  That is the reason I always include the “Links for Listening” so that the reader can go check the music out and make up their own minds, whether or not they agree with my assessment. I want to see what people think about the music and artists I have written about by posting comments.  I am hoping that this site will become a bit of a community of music fans, particularly those who are interested in prog, who will share their thoughts and opinions, respectfully, of course.

Please share YOUR insights about my blog by posting a comment.  I hope you’ll subscribe and share my page with others who may enjoy it!  Thanks!