In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve grown pretty rapidly over the last year or so. From humble beginnings, we’re now in the top 200 of Technorati, averaging over 250,000 unique visitors/month and over 350,000 page views/month.
If we compare this to the same time last year, the improvements are plain to see:
August 2008:
96,923 unique visitors
155,724 pageviews
August 2009:
322,176 unique visitors
539,699 pageviews
And August isn’t even over yet! :) Put differently: Yesterday we did almost as many pageviews in one(!) day as we did in the whole month of July 2008.
Why are we telling you all this?
As wonderful as that is, our servers have taken a beating so we’ve decided its time to make a move and we’re doing it right now (in fact, on reading this, its likely we’ve already moved). We’ve also moved over to WordPress MU too which means a number of our previous plugins aren’t working correctly, and we’re going to need to figure out how to rectify that.
How does this affect you?
Well, because of the move it’s likely you’ll notice a – more than your normal – amount of strange behaviour on the site over the next few days. We’ve had readers already let us know that the mobile versio of the site was loading for them – we’ve had to disable the mobile site temporarily…so things like that. On a better note, you’ll notice the site is MUCH faster to load now and that should make us as writers more relaxed, and therefore lead to more enjoyable posts (or something like that…).
Most importantly…
Thank you so much for making TheNextWeb one of your online haunts. It’s an absolute pleasure to write for you, to hear your thoughts and opinions, and to be a part of the web community at large. Expect more news from us soon, but for now, we look forward to continuing to grow with you!
Congratulations on the growth you guys. Impressive figures that are. Keep it going, The Next Web is a good read.
Hey Zee: you forgot to mention that people should subscribe to our RSS feed! :-)
Nice to see you growing although my opinion is that the quality of TNW has a downfall since EJ left. He was writing in depth articles and nowadays 99% of articles are relatively small articles about twitter and apple.
I miss the diversity in the articles TNW had a year ago.
Further all the best with the site.
Unfortunately I have to agree with Cojak.
I follow your blog every day for more than a year and half and really noticed a decline in articles for which I originally came to your site.
That was articles about start-up’s.
It was the thing that you haved a great articles about, excellent history track of these startups and had original content.
Now it’s all more or less boils down to rewrite the articles from TechChrunch, writing about Twitter and sending various funy jockes on the blog.
A web business articles are totally gone.
I must admit that my time spent on your blog last year was 10 min. a day, and now it is less then 1 min. I do not keep more because unfortunately I have nothing original to read.
Excuse me this is my first post on your blog after a year and a half, but I simply had to tell you.
All this is only for you to be better.
Please write more about startups, their beginnings, development, sales, and financing. Interview them, let them say something to world, taht will bring you original content …
Regards, Marino.
Congrats with the rise in visitors, though I have to agree with Cojak and Marino.
Lots of small posts in the last few months, contain things that supposed to be jokes and I actually wouldn’t expect on this site.
This site used to be on my standard list of sites to visit daily, but somehow it’s not part of my everyday read anymore. But since the rise in amount of visitors this “new” kind of content attracts more visitors.
Hope to see some interesting content in the future.
Regards,
Marc