Category Archives: Stats

Into profit

When I started the plantality.com project I knew I wanted it to pay a reasonable monthly income after five years. Back in August I realised I hadn’t specified exactly what a ‘reasonable income’ meant. So, after a brief think I figured £1,000 per month would be a good starting place to declare the project a [...]

August 2010 Stats

So, it’s stats time again: Visitors: 374 Pages: 2864 Revenue: £0.42 (about $0.60) I’ve made an adjustment to the pages figure from this month forward: since traffic  is low and I’m doing a lot of site access writing entries for the plant database, the stats where being badly skewed, so I have removed my own [...]

July 2010 Stats & News

July 2010 Stats are as follows: Visitors: 196 Pages: 1670 Total earnings: 10p (about 17c) Pagerank: 0 Alexa rank: 7,219,006 So, still very quiet, but that’s hardly surprising considering how little has changed. There is one big area for development, though: Phase II is now available, or rather Phase II beta 0.9, which is to [...]

June 2010 Stats

Figures for June 2010 are as follows: Visitors: 363 Pages: 2015 New users: 0 Alexa ranking: 7,202,584 Total earnings: £0.17 (about 25c) The good news is that traffic has more than doubled from last month. The bad is that nobody signed up. There where two blips in traffic, the first on the 1st June due [...]

My Start-up Costs

With the site released I thought now would be a good time it give a breakdown of the costs of getting to this stage. To convert any costs to US$ multiply by about 1.5. Laptop: £666.13 First up I needed a new notebook. I know I should really do development on my desktop machine, but [...]

May 2010 Stats

So, May was my first month after the proper release. Here are my stats: Visitors: 152 Pages: 574 Active users: 6 Photos: 21 Blog posts: 15 Page rank: 0 Alexa ranking: 7,375,933 Earnings: £0.00 (about $0.00) Not much to write home about, but then it was my first month, I only sent a press release [...]