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Monthly StatsTraffic and Fundraising Stats Super Update for May, June, July, August, and September
Here is a super-update on the stats for the last five months. I apologize for not getting these out each month like before! It's really important to me to give you this information but it does take a real chunk of time, and I haven't been able to do it all until now.
Thank you to everyone who has donated. As I can never emphasize enough, we cannot run this site without your help. As most of you who've been around a while know, we ran for nearly two years before we started requesting donations, and we're still trying to raise funds to cover those prior expenses as well as cover our ongoing costs. We're so close to hitting that goal, but we need to raise more than we spend on ongoing costs to get there. That is why our fundraising goal is set to $1500 a month.
The average daily cost of running this site this year is about $34. If you've donated $34 you've sponsored the site for everyone for a day! That's a lot less than it would cost for us to all buy a drink together.
Since we started tracking, we've had around 75,000 page views per day (about 2 million to 2.5 million per month). About 75% of our traffic comes from people who aren't logged in. Between that and our invite code requests we know that this site has a much bigger impact than just for our registered users. If you don't have an account, you can donate to us via our Substack.
Fundraising Stats:
| May | June | July | August | September | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # Subscribers | 71 | 71 | 67 | 68 | 68 |
| # One-time donators | 10 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| # Substack donators | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Donations raised on site | $1,424 | $1,520 | $1,204 | $1,069 | $976 |
Basic Site Stats:
| May | June | July | August | September | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Users | 67 | 65 | 67 | 50 | 47 |
| New Posts | 1,764 | 1,824 | 1,772 | 1,784 | 1,568 |
| New Comments | 29,154 | 29,306 | 31,556 | 31,836 | 28,028 |
| New Upvotes | 347,966 | 358,596 | 384,068 | 408,787 | 331,339 |
| New Downvotes | 9,149 | 8,315 | 13,939 | 10,709 | 13,796 |
Detailed Site Stats:
| May | June | July | August | September | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # Users Posted | 319 | 346 | 342 | 335 | 336 |
| # Users Commented | 943 | 953 | 967 | 983 | 965 |
| # Users Voted | 1,263 | 1,268 | 1,303 | 1,309 | 1,268 |
| # Unique Visitors | 202,423 | 187,562 | 201,557 | 215,514 | 181,200 |