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SheepTech January11 Report Card

Vincent — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:44:40 +0000

Number of visitors went up by 3,446. Alexa ranking went a little higher at 95,621.

Money Made

AdSense: $857.23 (+$140.31)
Infolinks: $47.74 (+$3.82)
BlogAds: $40.40 (+$9.40)
ContextWeb: $10.62 (-$1.84)
SocialSpark: $25 (-$375)
Private ad: $58.33 (+$25)

Total: $1039.32 (-$198.31)

Other Statistics

Uptime: 99.94% (27 minutes downtime)
RSS subscribers: 675
Facebook Page fans: 200

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SheepTech December10 Report Card

Vincent — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:08:43 +0000

As expected, there’s a sharp drop of traffic in Christmas and New Year Eve, but overall traffic for the month remains more or less the same as November. Alexa ranking broke the 100,000 mark, ranking at 97,152 at the time of writing.

Money Made

SheepTech had finally reached $1,000 revenue mark, thanks to the holiday season.

AdSense: $716.92 (+$5.40)
Infolinks: $43.92 (+$5.02)
BlogAds: $31 (+$2.30)
ContextWeb: $12.46 (+$6.55)
Social Spark: $400 (+$400)
Private ad: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $1,237.63 (+$419.2)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

99.98% uptime with 9 minutes of downtime. RSS subscribers went up and down from 580-ish to >600.

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SheepTech November10 Report Card

Vincent — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:36:00 +0000

Google Analytics tracking was disrupted for four days in November while I was experimenting with CloudFlare, resulting in inaccurate traffic reporting. Data from SiteMeter will be used instead.

Visitors number experience very little change from October, at around 63,000. Alexa ranking continues to rise, from October’s 139,423 to 101,956.

Money Made

Revenue went down in spite of the relatively constant traffic. Quite puzzling as it should be the opposite since the holiday season is coming.

AdSense: $711.52 (-$72.09)
Infolinks: $38.9 (-$5.67)
BlogAds: $28.70 (+$0)
Contextweb: $5.91 (+$1.65)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $818.36 (-$76.11)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

Uptime reporting was also disrupted. SheepTech’s uptime was not tracked directly, but was assumed to be the same as the other blog’s uptime which I track using Pingdom, hosted on the same server.

The blog faced some downtime due to heavy load, resulting in HostGator suspending it for several hours, and I have no other backup solution to track SheepTech’s exact uptime.

The mentioned blog’s uptime is at 99.31% for November, but SheepTech definitely have much higher uptime than that.

The number of RSS subscribers is slightly higher, 588 at the time of writing but have exceeded 600 for several times in the past week.

SheepTech October10 Report Card

Vincent — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:16:15 +0000

Unique visitors increased by 6,000, Alexa ranking up from 158,072 to 139,423.

Money Made

AdSense: $783.61 (+$112.62)
InfoLinks: $44.57 (-$16.81)
BlogAds: $28.70 (+$0)
Contextweb: $4.26 (-$3.46)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $894.47 (+$92.35)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

99.98% uptime for the month of October thanks to HostGator’s outstanding performance. RSS subscriber’s count is at 573 at the time of writing.

SheepTech September10 Report Card

Vincent — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:50:12 +0000

There is a slight growth of traffic, an increase of 1,488 uniques and 349 pageviews. Alexa ranking improved from 183,775 to 158,072.

Money Made

AdSense: $670.99 (+$145.62)
Infolinks: $61.38 (+$3.02)
BlogAds: $28.70 (-$23.10)
Contextweb (formerly ADSDAQ): $7.72 (+$4.23)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $802.12 (+$129.77)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

99.98% uptime for the month of September thanks to HostGator’s outstanding performance. RSS subscriber’s count is at 545 at the time of writing.

SheepTech August10 Report Card

Vincent — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:01:55 +0000

Visits increased by 7,000, pageviews increased by 8900. Alexa rank SheepTech at 183,775 (3 month), or 151,434 (1 month).

Money Made

Welcome BlogAds and ADSDAQ to SheepTech’s revenue source family.

AdSense: $525.37 (+$114.69)
Infolinks: $58.36 (+$0.48)
BlogAds: $51.80 (+$51.80)
ADSDAQ: $3.49 (+$3.49)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $672.35 (+$170.46)

Uptime

99.96% uptime for August, well within HostGator’s 99.9% uptime guarantee.

SheepTech July10 Report Card

Vincent — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:18:09 +0000

Finally, I have a chance to publish this overdue post.

Money Made

AdSense: $410.68 (+$30.26)
Infolinks: $57.88 (-$20.66)
Private ad: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $501.89 (+$9.49)

Uptime

Uptime is as good as in June at 99.99%. Not bad at all for a $10/month shared hosting by Hostgator. RSS subscribers got a bump from ~300 to ~400, around 100 subscribers increase.

SheepTech June10 Report Card

Vincent — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:15 +0000

Despite of the lack of new content (will write more actively after I have cleared my last examination in August), SheepTech continues to grow, setting yet another new record in June with 43,468 unique visitors. That’s a 19% increase from the previous month. Alexa ranking however declined to 217,000 despite the traffic increase. Hmm?

Money Made

Sold a sidebar widget at $100 for three months, which translate to roughly $33.33 per month. Both AdSense and Infolink see an increase in revenue.

AdSense: $380.42 (+$70.64)
Infolinks: $78.65 (+$30.83)
Private ad: $33.33 (+$33.33)

Total: $492.40 (+$134.80)

Uptime

HostGator did a very good job in June, with 99.99% uptime (just 2 minutes of downtime).

RSS subscribers got a boost from ~200 to ~300, even without any new content being posted. Puzzling yet pleasing.

SheepTech May10 Report Card

Vincent — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:59:00 +0000

Traffic

The month of May 2010 had set a new traffic record for SheepTech, with a 23% increase in unique visitors compare to last month’s—from 29,742 to 36,507. Pageviews are at just over 60,000, with Alexa ranking at 201,872.

Money Made

Thanks to the traffic increase, SheepTech’s revenue got a nice bump too. Figures in bracket shows the difference in earnings compared to the month before.

AdSense: $309.78 (+$76.19)
Infolinks: $47.82 (+8.49)

Total: $357.60 (+$84.68)

Uptime

Pingdom is showing 99.71% with 2 h, 10 m downtime. HostGator however claimed that there isn’t any downtime for the month when I emailed them for an uptime check.

I have put minimal work on the blog for the past weeks, busy working on bigger things in life, and I don’t see this ending anytime soon. Perhaps I’d be churning out new contents at a higher rate in another two or three months.

Thanks for reading

SheepTech April10 Report Card

Vincent — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:17:15 +0000

Growth is pretty stagnant for April in terms of traffic, but there’s a slight increase in revenue comparing to March’s performance.

Traffic

Visits down by 374 compared to last month, but pageviews are up by 1,867. Very minor changes. Alexa ranking at 210,727.

Money Made

I have added AdvertiseSpace as another source of revenue on top of Google AdSense and Infolinks. Figures in bracket shows the difference in earnings compared to the month before.

AdSense: $233.59 (+$18.38)
Infolinks: $39.33 (+$2.62)
AdvertiseSpace: $12.86 (+$12.86)

Total: $285.78 (+$33.86)

Uptime

Nothing to brag about for April’s uptime. There’s a total of 1 hour and 9 minutes of downtime, lowering the uptime percentage to 99.84%, 0.06% short of Hostgator’s 99.9% uptime guarantee.

To see how serious they are on this guarantee, I requested for the month’s refund and this is their response:

Hello,
Thank you for contacting Host Gator. I have had an admin check the downtime on the server, and we are seeing the server as having been up for 99.96% of the time this month. 3rd party uptime monitors can not be used towards the uptime guarantee as outlined in the terms of service. However, seeing as how we aren’t even half way through the month yet, I’ve gone ahead and added a credit of $9.95 to your account. This credit will automatically be applied to your next invoice.
If there is anything else we can help you with, please let us know.

Chances are I might have another month of free hosting from Hostgator in May, with 1 hour and 15 minutes of downtime in a single day (3rd of May), caused by problems in the datacenter. We will see.

But then of course, I’d definitely appreciate uptime more than the refund.