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Happy Birthday! Baseball-Reference.com
I feel like I should have a cake or something. I launched Big Bad Baseball Stats on Feb. 1 of last year and then switched over to the current domain, Baseball-Reference.com, on April 1. It's been a pretty good year. We've had a lot of buzz and our monthly page views have gone from
Feb 2000: 51,900
May 2000: 232,438
Aug 2000: 600,711
Dec 2000: 653,007
Jan 2001: 1,012,584
That's right. We hit one million page views last month. The Hall of Fame election was a big help, but I think that making a fast easy-to-use service is the main reason people keep coming back. Overall, in the last year we served well over five million pages and handled around a half million user visits. I thought this site would be a big deal, but I had never imagined this sort of usage.
Will it continue to grow? I don't know. I keep getting e-mails from baseball fans who have just found the site for the first time, so I know there is still a lot of untapped potential out there. I don't have any money for advertising as I'm not making much revenue. However, word of mouth is a strong mover. We've been doubling ever six months, so I'm going to guess that four million page views next year at this time.
What I may be proudest of is this.
Status Code Report
File served properly: 5,519,391
File not found: 7,581
Server error: 840
Sorry for crowing so much here. It just doesn't feel like a year has gone by.
I feel like I should have a cake or something. I launched Big Bad Baseball Stats on Feb. 1 of last year and then switched over to the current domain, Baseball-Reference.com, on April 1. It's been a pretty good year. We've had a lot of buzz and our monthly page views have gone from
Feb 2000: 51,900
May 2000: 232,438
Aug 2000: 600,711
Dec 2000: 653,007
Jan 2001: 1,012,584
That's right. We hit one million page views last month. The Hall of Fame election was a big help, but I think that making a fast easy-to-use service is the main reason people keep coming back. Overall, in the last year we served well over five million pages and handled around a half million user visits. I thought this site would be a big deal, but I had never imagined this sort of usage.
Will it continue to grow? I don't know. I keep getting e-mails from baseball fans who have just found the site for the first time, so I know there is still a lot of untapped potential out there. I don't have any money for advertising as I'm not making much revenue. However, word of mouth is a strong mover. We've been doubling ever six months, so I'm going to guess that four million page views next year at this time.
What I may be proudest of is this.
Status Code Report
File served properly: 5,519,391
File not found: 7,581
Server error: 840
Sorry for crowing so much here. It just doesn't feel like a year has gone by.
posted by Sean Foran # 8:24 AM 
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