[swiftcoder]

> Most traffic coming to blog posts is not from people who know you and are personally following your posts

Do we have data to back that up? Anecdotally the blogs I have operated over the years tend to mostly sustain on repeat traffic from followers (with occasional bursts of external traffic if something trends on social media)

[rerdavies]

Your data sounds a bit anecdotal. :-P

Here's my anecdotal data. Number of blogs that I personally follow: zero. And yet, somehow, I end up reading a lot of blog posts (mostly linked from HN, but also from other places in my webosphere).

(More than a bit irritated by the "Do you have data to back that up" thing, given that you don't really have data to back up your position).

[swiftcoder]

> (More than a bit irritated by the "Do you have data to back that up" thing, given that you don't really have data to back up your position).

It wasn't necessarily a request for you personally to provide data. I'm curious if any larger blog operators have insight here.

"person who only reads the 0.001% of blog posts that reach the HN front page" is not terribly interesting as an anecdotal source on blog traffic patterns