Readership Size

When asked how many hits or visitors per day their personal weblog received, here is how respondents answered:

Number of Hits or Visitors........Respondents*
20 or less.................................27%
21-40.......................................22%
41-60.......................................14%
61-80.......................................12%
81-100.....................................8%
101-200...................................11%
201+........................................6%

* It should be noted for this question that 5% of survey participants did not answer this question, and 17% of participants stated they did not know the number of visitors visiting their site, so percentages on this chart have been calculated using only 78% of total participants in the survey.


What the statistics tell us:

Most of the webloggers participating in the survey, like most bloggers, have small audiences. 49% of those who knew the answer to this question received 40 or less site visitors per day.

While my site received about 65 unique hits, or visitors, per day before the surveying began (it has since gone up), I can only say I have at most 15 dedicated readers who visit my site regularly (either every day or every few days), the large majority of my visitors are one timers. We can probably assume the same of most of the weblogs that were surveyed, one of the major conclusions of the Perseus Weblog Survey was that blogs have nanoaudiences, the large majority of them are only interesting to a handful of individuals.