BTC Geek

December was an excellent month for BTC Geek in terms of traffic. Even though the price of Bitcoin settled down into the $700s and the volatility fell drastically with it, the interest in Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies remained high. I am happy to report that this was the month with the highest monthly visits since the blog started, so I am happy with the way things are going. And unlike the previous months, there was no one single article that stole the show – I got a uniform traffic to a variety of different posts, spread throughout the month without too many ups and downs.

November Stats here

October Stats here

September Stats here

August Stats here

Here’s the overview for the month:

That was 33,046 Visits; 26,080 Unique visits; 42,332 Pageviews.

Here are the top-5 visited pages on the blog:

First off, notice that there is no homepage in the top 5 visited pages! Each of these were ‘viral’ in their own way, and they stand on their own merit. I am glad the top 5 were individual articles on this blog. My Free Bitcoin guide continues to attract traffic. I need to update the information on the page this month.

Here are the links to the top 5 pages:

Free Bitcoin

How to Get Free Litecoins

Buy Dogecoin: Dogecoin Exchanges

Cryptsy Alternatives

Buy Protoshares

Of course, the sudden rise in popularity of Dogecoin helped my article about how to Buy Dogecoin. I expect this traffic to decrease next month, for obvious reasons.

I very much enjoy finding out where my readers are coming from, which is also a good indication of how things in the Bitcoin world are moving around the globe. Bitcoin has the potential to better the lives of the poorest and most marginalized sections of society, so it is always good to see Bitcoin making inroads into other countries.

India has been in the top 10 for my blog for the last two months, and it has continued to do so in December. However, I was very happy to see Indonesia in the list this month.

The US remains firmly on the top, followed by UK. Can the Netherlands dethrone UK next month?

City-wise, for the first time, London beat New York and is on the top of my list. I don’t know why I have so many (not set) this time. Google Analytics can be missing a few data points like the city information.

Really good to see Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh in this list. Bitcoin needs to spread to all parts of the world.

That’s all from this month’s statistics. Don’t forget to find me on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with the latest updates.

Another month, another leap for Bitcoin. This was October though, before the crazy jump in BTC prices measured in sovereign currencies. I had a busy month, and I know I am a month late here, but I wanted to continue sharing my statistics for the blog. It is an exciting time to be blogging about Bitcoin and crypto-currencies and I fully cherish this wonderful opportunity of being able to reach tens thousands of people every month.

August Stats here

September Stats here

Here’s the overview for the month

October has been the biggest month for me, in terms of traffic so far. This was almost exclusively due to one post that went viral – Dawn of Autonomous Corporations Powered by Bitcoin. Yes, this post reached the top spot on Hacker News! That single post currently has 528 Facebook Likes, 305 Tweets, 197 G+ shares and 53 LinkedIn Shares.

This was by far the most read post on my blog for October. Here are the others that round off the top 5 visited pages:

These were the most read articles:

Dawn of Autonomous Corporations Powered by Bitcoin

What Would Happen if Bitcoin Reaches 1000

How to Get Free Litecoins

Free Bitcoin

Homepage

That’s what happens when one of your post goes viral – it made up more than 70% of my total views.

I also reached more countries than last month – 41 more countries to be precise. This is a great improvement. It is also good to know that parts of the world that are not very well connected over the internet happen to be the ones that would benefit the most with an innovation like Bitcoin, and they are getting on-board.

Australia was in the top 10 this time, and good to see India was hanging in there. Although it is a very unfair comparison, India could be the next destination where Bitcoin should take off. The one good thing about India is that instead of just speculating craze, it could grow more organically as the entrepreneurs there would be more interested in grass-root level implementations and solving problems unique to India.

Finally, here are the top 10 cities –

San Francisco, New York, and London retain their spots as first, second and third respectively. LA and Sydney moved up. And great to see Austin here! Austin is an under-rated tech hub in the US that has a lot of potential to grow in the Bitcoin space. One, there is plenty of intellectual capital. Secondly, there are a diverse bunch of people in Austin who can definitely help grow Bitcoin in different dimensions. And third, Texas is a stronghold of libertarian ideals, and Bitcoin is quite popular in the libertarian circles.

That’s all from my side. If you like to see any other specific stats, let me know!

Here are some interesting monthly statistics for BTC Geek that I think my readers would appreciate.

Lots of interesting things happened in the Bitcoin world and this blog.

The major breakthrough was that BTC Geek broke a story that Bloomberg is testing a Bitcoin ticker, XBT, internally. That single blog post got 60 Facebook Likes and 69 Tweets. This was also a month where BTC Geek finally went social – Facebook and Twitter! You can now see my Facebook page or follow me on Twitter.

Some basic stats for the month of August (here’s a screenshot of my Google Analytics) –

There were a total of 4904 visits, 4242 unique visits and 6876 pageviews in the month of August. Not surprisingly, the post above was the most popular.

Here are the most read posts this month:

1. Bitcoin Ticker Arrives on Bloomberg

2. Homepage of BTC Geek

3. How to Get Free Litecoins

4. Bitcoin Brokers Review

5. Free Bitcoin

Location-wise, I am always curious to know where my visitors are coming from, and I think it is a good indication of where Bitcoin is becoming more and more popular.

Here are the most popular countries from where I got my visitors in August:

The 10 most popular countries, in that order, were US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Russia, India, China, Netherlands, Poland. However, there is a very interesting country on the 11th spot – Finland. It’s interesting because the population of Finland is about 5.3 million and therefore per capita, it is much higher than most countries mentioned above. If anyone is from Finland reading this blog, contact me and I’d love to talk with you about this!

It’s not just the countries though, but the cities which make it interesting. There are several cities around the world that are leading the way in Bitcoin.

Here are the most popular cities from which BTC Geek got visitors in the month of August:

The list is: New York, London, San Francisco, Toronto, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Mountain View, Sydney, Helsinki, Chicago.

Starkly missing from the list is Berlin. I thought Bitcoin was very popular in Berlin. Where are all my Berlin readers! Helsinki is an interesting spot on the list – the capital of Finland. Also, New York beat out London.