Don’t do many CHS web traffic posts these days — things keep growing, story is good. But while we’re doing a few About CHS posts like this one (re)introducing Maps, I wanted to point out a milestone that I’m extremely proud of. CHS has now reached 1,000 subsribers on its RSS feed.
You’ll note a few ups and downs along the way. The big dips are screwups at feed provider Feedburner — but CHS takes credit for all the peaks!
The RSS milestone is important to me as a proxy for our success with the kinds of neighbors who are the most connected, most engaged with the site on a long term basis. Some sites bemoan their RSS audience as disconnected and a phantom presence but I’ve found that making all of our content (including our advertising, of course) available to the RSS audience results in participation over the long haul. Want to join the crowd — you can add our feed here.
Meanwhile, if you are curious about how many visitors are coming to the web, CHS makes its usage statistics publicly available at Quantcast. We’re somewhere around 10k people a month these days. Thanks for being part of it.
some surprising numbers in the CHS usage stats… especially the income distribution. Is there any accurate Capitol HIll demographic data out there to compare these numbers with?
That’s a lot of subscribers! I think I have 4. :-)