It probably sounds a bit fruit-loops to even seriously be considering the optimum number of blog posts to do each day, but after doing a couple of posts mentioning my 27 year history of blogging, I started contemplating that life defining question again.
For most of the past 27 years I have simply done a blog post whenever I had an urge to say something, and over time on www.frot.co.nz, that generally worked out to an average of around 10 posts each month.
But with my new www.sift.co.nz blog, I set out at the start of 2024 with a definite aim of doing one post every day, even if those posts were only shorties. I liked the idea of forcing myself to post something daily, and wondered how I’d cope with that sort of intense pressure!
For the first year (2024) the hits were fairly disappointing, generally numbering only around 100-200 total hits each day, and I thought my 1000+ hits a day times (2017-2019) were well and truly over. But throughout 2025 the hits have actually been increasing, they are now averaging 500+ a day, and are continuing to gradually climb.
For the first year (2024) the hits were fairly disappointing, generally numbering only around 100-200 total hits each day, and I thought my 1000+ hits a day times (2017-2019) were well and truly over. But throughout 2025 the hits have actually been increasing, they are now averaging 500+ a day, and are continuing to gradually climb.
The only promotions I do these days are a few links on my Facebook account, apart from that I can't be bothered striving to get hits, but I must admit to having a look at the hit counter from time to time out of curiosity.
In the grand scheme of things I realise 1000 hits a day is bugger all, but it does add up to over a third of a million hits a year (365,000), and I used to manage to convince myself that I was a big-time influencer back in those glory days.
So yes, if I'm honest about it, one way or another, I'd really like to get right back up to over half a million hits a year. That was my peak hit-count on www.frot.co.nz back in 2018. Then I'll be a mover and shaker again.
Presently the hits vary quite a bit each day, from lows of around just 300, to highs of over 1500, and I have no idea why that is. Those quite big daily variations are not caused by my new post of the day, but just seem to be inexplicable ebbs and flows in the overall traffic to the entire site.
In 27 years, the most blog posts I’ve ever done in one day is four, and the longest I’ve gone without doing a post is 30 days. But clearly those are both maniacal and possibly unhealthy extremes.
My latest plan, starting today (Dec 1 2025) is to continue aiming to do a post each day, but at the same time to just randomly do as many extra posts as I might feel inclined to do. This is my second post of today. So I might go on to do more posts today, or I might not, who knows?, I’m going to be taking a walk on the wild side...
In 27 years, the most blog posts I’ve ever done in one day is four, and the longest I’ve gone without doing a post is 30 days. But clearly those are both maniacal and possibly unhealthy extremes.
My latest plan, starting today (Dec 1 2025) is to continue aiming to do a post each day, but at the same time to just randomly do as many extra posts as I might feel inclined to do. This is my second post of today. So I might go on to do more posts today, or I might not, who knows?, I’m going to be taking a walk on the wild side...
