By Dave Wood on Sunday, 30 January 2011
Category: Development

A Different Numbers Post

For this week's iDevBlogADay post, I'm going to give you some numbers. A different set of numbers than usual, not sales numbers (unfortunately they've not been interesting enough to publish yet); I'm going to give you the number of visits to my other iDevBlogADay posts so far.

I love being a part of the iDevBlogADay rotation, it's forcing me to write and communicate more with the iOS community (I'm usually a very quiet person). I appreciate the opportunity to be able to give a little something back. To that end, I want to maximize the reach and the impact of the little that I do get to write. So, following the numbers, I'm going to have a tiny survey for you. I'll publish the results next week and then use the information gained to create a series of posts that should interest and help, the most people.

Here are my numbers so far (all stats current as of Jan 30th, 2011).

Dec 26 2010 Discussion - Apple's App Store Policy Against Name Squatting 695
Jan 02 2011 Discussion - Reducing App Store Piracy 1028
Jan 09 2011 Open Source, the GPL, and the App Store 740
Jan 16 2011 iDev Tips & Tricks 1947
Jan 23 2011 TestFlight your Apps 980

The most successful post (judging solely on web traffic) was the Tips & Tricks post. By far, nearly double the traffic of the second most popular post about reducing piracy. The Tips post had a tonne of people tweeting the link.

My theory, is that the Tips post had 9 pretty different tips, and so there was 9 times as many chances for a topic to be interesting to someone. That's why it was linked to more often than the others. The second, regarded piracy, a topic almost every developer is concerned with.

I have no idea if the stats I'm seeing are similar to others, I only have about 200 followers on Twitter, which is pretty low. But then again, I don't say much, so it's not surprising.

So, please help me by answering the 6 questions in this survey so that I can write on topics that are the most interesting to you!

Thanks!


This post is part of iDevBlogADay, a group of indie iPhone development blogs featuring two posts per day. You can keep up with iDevBlogADay through the web site, RSS feed, or Twitter.

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