For readers who might be interested in the P2P Foundation adventure, we have reached a 6-month milestone. Time to review how we have done?

As a reminder, we started filling the P2PFoundation.net wiki with content in the month of December, and the blog sometime late February, so for simplicity’s sake, we’ll give them both a starting date of January 1.

James Burke our blogmaster, send me an overview of the blog, from Google Analytics.

What does it show?: Most of readers come from the East Coast of the U.S., and from Europe and the West Coast states, with a smattering in Asia, i.e. Thailand and China.

On the blog we’ve had about 4,800 visitors, and 8,500 page views. 37.5% of the visitors are returning visitors.

The top 3 sources for visits are 1) direct visits; 2) Google (21.3%); 3) via P2PFoundation.net links

Right now, the number of visitors is about an average of 75-150 per day; and the page views about double that. This is valid for the period end of May and June.

A possible source of confusion is that we have both blogp2pfoundation.net and blog.p2pfoundation.com. All of the above are for the .com address. James, could you eventually comment on how much is added to this thruogh the .net address?

We have a similar problem with our Technorati rankings:

for .net: Technorati Rank: 95,733 (252 links from 32 sites)

for.com: 134,364 (273 links from 24 sites)

What would our rank be if we had 525 links from 56 sites?

Finally, here the situation of the wiki at p2pfoundation.net, copied from the Statistics page. I think we can be satisfied of the almost 250,000 page views gathered so far.

“There are 3,051 total pages in the database. This includes “talk” pages, pages about P2p foundation, minimal “stub” pages, redirects, and others that probably don’t qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 1,469 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.

There have been a total of 249,715 page views, and 4,684 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 1.54 average edits per page, and 53.31 views per edit.”

Another metric we could use is the number of emails reaching us and dealing specifically with P2P Foundation matters. They were of only 4-5 emails per week when we had only P2P News; it jumped up to 4-5 per day when we started the wiki. Bu for communication, it is the blog which has had the most impact, and we are now reaching the 25 letters per day barrier, which, incidentally, is starting to be difficult to manage.

I’ll take more time to reflect on non-metrics related issues, in some days to come.

Michel Bauwens, Chiang Mai, June 24,