I discovered that Sunday receives the poorest amount of visitors while the rest were average. I have gained steady visitors but not a major increase in Rss Feed readers though, trying to work on that portion since i have set my target for next month.

I started my site just a few days shy of 3 months and have been doing fairly good. The readership has been increasing slowly. I now realize that you do have to look at trends and interpret what will happen. Trust your intuition and you will succeed.

Thanks,

Richard Rinyai
http://www.theprofessionalassistant.net

I notice that weekends are down too especially sunday but wondered if I should post something on sunday to bring numbers up. It would be very interesting to see if your subscribers would all post something on the weekend and see if collectively we can see if people just don’t read as much on the weekend or is it a particular niche that does better on the weekend.

Can you post an article about whether or not to include your entire article in your feed versus teasers? If you already wrote it, can you give me the url on it?

Probably synchronizing data between different servers worldwide?

Funny, I don’t really get why they fluctuate. I rarely remove a feed from my reader. If it is a feed I don’t really want to read I will tag it with a filter or label so I know I don’t care for this feed.

If I just remove it, I might be adding it down the line and have to do that all over again. Thanks, Scott

I agree that Monday is the best day for me as well. Though I update my blog every second day, my statistics is not as fluctuating as of Max Pool. It is increasing day by day.

I haven’t noticed minimal feed reading during the weekend as well.

Post : http://www.articlefarms.com/opinion/2007/11/08/how-to-manage-your-reading/

@Evan –

The point of the post was not to display my patterns and hypothesize on the reading habits of the entire internet, but rather show that you may be able to find not-so-random information to help you target your audiences better.

After looking at my traffic and feed stats, the pattern emerged that Monday and Friday were my biggest days for both feed reading *and* direct traffic. I wanted to capture more readers so I starting experimenting. What happens if I post on my lowest weekday – Wednesday? What happens if I don’t post on Monday or Friday?

Long story short, I was able to find my sweet spot and determine I should *always* post very early morning Monday as it helped my overall subscription count. I am hypothesizing this is because feed readers are happy to see more material (thus not dropping), and direct traffic’ers are pleased to see new material (and hopefully capturing some as new readers).

Hope this clarifies things a bit.

Does it matter when I post? Does when readers read affect how often I post or anything else?

So I don’t know that this kind of information tells me anything to help me improve my blog.

I’m not meaning to rain on your parade Max and I think ProBlogger is an excellent site. But I don’t see how this kind of information helps me.

-Mike

As for fluctuations I only post Mon-Fri so I expect page views to drop off at the weekend

Less page views in summer time?
On my NZ reality television blog I have noticed a recent drop in page views, even though subscriber numbers are climbing. I wonder if it’s because it’s coming up to summer here and longer days. I know TV viewing drops in summer, does computer time also drop? Does anyone know?

I do get a lot of international traffic to this page and I haven’t worked out yet where the drop is (i.e. from NZ/Australia where it is summer or UK/US winter) but I’ll get there soon!

But I noticed that the counter fluctuating has hit one of my site.. any idea what’s happening?

I guess I sometimes forget that not all blogs originate from the U.S. I think most Americans (myself included) just assume that the internet revolves around the U.S. sometimes.

-Raymond

The only thing that is really consistent is that weekends are generally slow…which is odd since personally, that’s the time I’m most actively reading blogs.

I wonder if this curve trend differs for different types of blogs. Mine is more of a personal finance / investment blog rather than these “make money online blogs” I always see.

-Raymond