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February 2010 Stats

Alafista — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:02:24 +0000

I always excited about the end of the month because that is the only time I allow myself to review the site statistics. I’m glad to announce that readership is back on the rising track and I managed to cross the 6,000 daily mark again. In addition, I noticed that the feedburner has also crossed the 1k mark. Double celebration!!

I think this is good indication that you folks are enjoying my new “Today’s Japan Photo” section. However, I would still love to hear more feedback on how I can improve the section, and what are the things that you want to see being featuring in that section.

I wanted to restart the Nendoroid Photoshoot Project with comrade kodomut, but it seems we were both too busy. Hopefully we will be able to produce another exciting project in March after he finishes his exams.

At present, I’m trying to amass new funds to give my site layout a new overhaul. Hopefully the sponsorship renewals would be sufficient to foot the bill ^^

Finally just a quick run through of the exact details for last month’s stats: Feb 2010 served just over 573,987 page views to an average of 6,039 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 169,105.

January 2010 Stats

Alafista — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:55:32 +0000

Time to take stock of how well my site has been performing in the new year of 2010. As mentioned in my New Year Resolution for 2010, I plan to cross the 300k/month by end of Dec 2010. Unfortunately, Jan recorded a slight drop in daily readership back to below the 6,000 daily unique visitor mark.

Of course, I’m not disheartened by this and I’m motivate to strive hard to provide more interesting and original content for my readers.

Which is the reason why I started a new section titled “Today’s Japan Photo“. Everyday I would go onto the vast internet and try to get one interesting photo to share with you, and take the opportunity to share some of Japan’s intersting cultural facts too. Today’s Japan Photo can be easily accessed via the scrolling carousel bar on the top right corner. I would love to hear some of your comments on this new content and how I can improve it further.

In addition, I’ve also created my first header image to feature my site mascot – Akari the kitsune. Those who had received my namecard might be familiar with him. But for those that are unfamiliar, Akari is a mascot that was designed and created by the talented site reader Maha. On the top header, you can see (from left to right) Akari in a traditional happi, reading some manga and enjoying snacks, enjoying cherry blossom view, and cosplaying as Phoenix Wright (I’ve gotta re-photoshop that photo again). I intend to do up an about page for Akari and probably invite readers to submit fan art of Akari in the near future.

Finally just a quick run through of the exact details for this month’s stats: Jan 2010 served just over 628,611 page views to an average of 5,373 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 166,588.

November 2009 Stats

Alafista — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:59:10 +0000

Time always seem to pass quickly especially when you are having fun and we are moving into the final month of the year. Last month, I had shared with you folks that this site managed to cross the 6,000 unique readers mark and I’m happy to say that we have managed to maintain the same level of readership for the month of November.

So what are the things that have been keeping me busy this month?

Just two weeks back, I was invited back to the Anime Festival Asia for its second time and really enjoyed myself listening to the concerts and interacting with old and new friends. (And I still have not finished processing the photos I took at the event.)

I’m also happy to announce that Alafista.com has a new sponsor – Otacute. They are another online store that deal in Figurines, Pro Models, Trading figures and Goodies from Japan. I went to engage them after I found out that they carry an impressive collection of limited items such as Nendoroid Jiei-tan [Marine Limited Edition] and Nendoroid Marisa Kirisame. In addition, they also offer three options for shipping, SAL, EMS and FedEx. I’m a big fan of FedEx shipping so I would be placing more preoders with them in the future as well.

More details for this month’s stats: November served just over 914,830 page views to an average of 6,260 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 187,821.

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Ryoko Tanaka 田中涼子, Aya Kiguchi 木口亜矢, Saaya 紗綾, and Rina Koike 小池里奈.

October 2009 Stats

Alafista — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:20:11 +0000

Time to take stock of how well this site has performed over the past month, and I’m immensely delighted to announced that Alafista has crossed the 6,000 daily unique visitor mark ^^ I’m really quite excited about this growth in readership since it has just been two months since we broke the 5,000 mark. If this site manages to cross the 7,000 mark by end of this year, then it would mean a 100% growth in readership for the entire year, but that is still too early to say for now.

Basically the month of October ended with a high because of my latest DSLR upgrade which some of you folks who have already read about on my twitter. After thinking over it for a couple of months, I finally went out and bought the Canon 5D MK II, a full-frame DSLR which I had been wanting to get since its release.

So what had I been up to this month? Here’s a quite run through:

As with all the past months, I had been busy juggling all my activities together. I had been busy learning Japanese on Fridays, taking photography classes on Wednesdays and going out fortnight with comrade kodomut for our Nendo’s Travelogue.

Its really great fun to resume my photography classes again, and this round we had quite a number of new classmates who are good photographers as well. I feel quite blessed to be learning from such a great tutor, whom had personally taught some of Singapore’s finest photographers, and they are making it big internationally. Maybe some day I would get a chance to do so too ^^

After the end of this week, I will be completing my Intermediate Japanese class and moving onto Pre-Advance level while I wait for the upcoming JLPT 3 examinations in December.

As for new collaborations and opportunities, this site will be having its third official sponsor, and I will be announcing it in a few days time once they are ready with the banner. On the local front, I had been trying to get myself recruited for the single opening on the X-Team (Xbox Singapore).

More details for this month’s stats: October served just over 1,014,338 page views to an average of 6,299 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 195,291. Its just been amazing that this site managed to achieved the 6k milestone before my upcoming birthday this week. I’m gonna try and find a way to reward my loyal readers with some lovely goodies, so keep a lookout for my birthday announcement ^^

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Chisato Morishita 森下千里, Natsuko Tatsumi 辰巳奈都子, Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木希, and Erina Mano 真野恵里菜.

September 2009 Stats

Alafista — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:07:52 +0000

I always look forward to the end of the month when I review how well this site has performed. I’m glad to saw that Alafista.com has managed to mantain the 5,000 mark and the community continue to grows everyday ^^

Time really flies, and I can’t believe comrade kodomut and I have completed chapter 5 of our Nendo’s Travelogue [ねんどろいどの旅日記] Project. Last week was really a memorable experience shooting on the train tracks as it was both interesting and dangerous.

Realised that I’ve been procrasting on some of my projects, such as my new banner and reviging the weekly Japanese okashi お菓子 okashi reviews. Of course, all these delays are due to my busy schedule which just seems to get even busier as my office work starts to seemingly invade my private life. Nonetheless, I had been busy discussing some collaboration and hopefully they will materialise in the near future.

More details for this month’s stats: September served just over 658,297 page views to an average of 5,338 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 160,169.

After looking carefully at the stats, it seems that we had a six-month streak of growth and we are well on the way of achieving my 6k milestone before my birthday in November ^^

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Yuko Ogura 小倉優子, Ryu Ji-Hye Kawaii Schoolgirl Cosplay, Momoko Tani 谷桃子, Sayaka Ogata 尾形沙耶香, and Natsuki Ikeda 池田夏希.

August 2009 Stats

Alafista — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:45:10 +0000

Alafista.com has finally hit another major milestone – the 5,000 daily unique visitor mark, which I had been hoping for after so many months. I must give a big hug to all my wonderful readers who has kept coming back ^^

August 2009 had been a really busy month for me. It was really difficult to juggle between office work, attending photography classes on alternate Wednesdays, learning Japanese every Friday, and bring the Nendoroids out for photoshoots on alternate weekends for Nendo’s Travelogue [ねんどろいどの旅日記] Project. But still I managed to pull through and I’m happy to see that what I learnt from my photography classes had paid off ^^

Nonetheless, I’m still planning to serve you folks with more interesting bits of otaku and popular culture from Japan. For this month, one of the features that I’m reviving would be the weekly Japanese okashi お菓子 (snacks) review of yummy limited edition Pocky and KitKat, etc. It would be a weekly Sunday feature since weekends are the times when I consume losta snacks.

In addition, I’m also glad to announce that I’m one of the chosen affliate blogs for the upcoming AFA09 event. I must say a huge thanks to Maha for helping me create the banner. I do hope that this new partnership would bring introduce new readers to my site while at the same time through my site showcase to other parts of the world that Singapore has great anime events too ^^

More details for this month’s stats: July served just over 607,725 page views to an average of 5,123 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 158,836. As I’m mentioned earlier, hitting the 5k mark was a really important milestone for me, and I would love to see more readers gather to this site. The next milestone is of course the 6k mark which I target to achieve before my birthday in November. So do shout out to every friends and family members that you know and show them the wonder of otaku culture through here ^^

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Anri Sugihara 杉原杏璃, Anri Sugihara 杉原杏璃, and Yuuki Fukasawa [深澤ゆうき] x Seiko Ando [安藤成子].

July 2009 Stats

Alafista — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:12:44 +0000

Time to do a check back on the work I’ve done for this site last month. I’m glad to say that you awesome folks have made me really happy because this month’s stats has reached another record best, almost reaching the 5k daily visitor mark and totaling to 154k monthly unique visitors.

It has been another busy month as usual – printing new name cards, embarking on a new photography project, renewing and getting new sponsors.

I’m really happy at how my new namecard turned out ^^ (thanks to Maha). Will try to keep the momentum going and start working on my banner. I had showed you folks a sneak preview of the namecard and will talk about it more in details in the next few days.

I think many of you would have know that Nendo’s Travelogue [ねんどろいどの旅日記] Project that I have started with blogger kodomut. We just did our inagural collaboration photoshoot today and I will be posting the photos up soon. It was losta fun although I’m totally exhausted from walking from one end of the park to the other.

Lastly, just to share that another new sponsor has come on board. Starting this month, the official site sponsor for Alafista.com will be Hobby Search and Hobby Link Japan. Two awesome online stores that I have been doing my online purchases with ^^

More details for this month’s stats: July served just over 685,985 page views to an average of 4,969 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 154,056. This is the sixth consecutive month that I’ve seen growth for this site. As usual, I would like to appeal for you folks to share this site with your friends and family. To make it more easy for you, I have added the new Wibiya toolbar that you can see at the bottom of the page.

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Mikie Hara 原幹恵, Aki Hoshino ほしのあき, Kana Tsugihara 次原かな, and Sayuri Kurahashi 倉橋沙由梨.

June 2009 Stats

Alafista — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:59:00 +0000

Following the successful 2nd anniversary giveaways and nomination for the SG OMY Awards, this month’s stats has reached another record high, moving past the 4.5k daily visitors mark and totaling to 135k monthly unique visitors.

The 2nd giveaway was a great event and it felt like the event had brought my readers closer to this blog and at the same time I was able to gain new readers. Right now I’m co-operating with Maha to turn the site mascot Akari into a reality and we are starting off by creating an awesome looking namecard (will share more with you folks once its printed).

More details for this month’s stats: June served just over 576,797 page views to an average of 4,516 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 135,493. Once again this is the best record for this site, almost 1k better than the previous month. It looks like last month call for you folks to introduce the site to your family and friends really did work. ^^

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Ami Tokito (時東ぁみ), Natsuko Tatsumi 辰巳奈都子, Rika Satoh さとう里香.

May 2009 Stats

Alafista — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:46:03 +0000

Its the time of the month again to check how my site is performing. Looks like this month’s giveaway is attracting losta readers to check back frequently. In May 2009, readership for alafista.com is another record high, attracting over 3,700 visitors daily totaling to 115k monthly unique visitors.

This month, we are happily celebrating the 2nd anniversary of this site. And the gracious sponsors, Hobby Search and Toylet have provided some lovely figures to giveaway over four seperate weekends.

Of course, this meant that every week I had to come up with different contest questions to keep things interesting. I’m most delighted with last weekend giveaway where we had so many readers submitting lovely photos celebrating the site’s 2nd anniversary.

More details for this month’s stats: May served just over 445,192 page views to an average of 3,740 unique daily users. The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 115,970. As you can see, this is the best performance for the past one year. *CHEERS* (Just a bit more to the 4K daily visitors mark) I strongly recommend you share this site with your friends and family ^^

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Rina Akiyama 秋山莉奈, Haruna Yabuki 矢吹春奈, and Natsumi Kamata 鎌田奈津美.

April 2009 Stats

Alafista — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:30:14 +0000

Once again its the start of a new month, and its also time for me to share with you folks my stats for the past month. In April 2009, readership for alafista.com has bounced back, attracting over 3,500 visitors daily totaling to 107k monthly unique visitors.

April felt like a really busy month for me in the office and somehow the entire month zoomed past me without any notice. Even though I have come up with a few interesting concept, I just can’t find time to materialise them into project.

Nonetheless, this has also been a bountiful month, because I bought a new Lumix LX3 and a new Braun Buffel cluch bag. (I’m so dead broke now =P)

I’m very happy that the month of April saw more visitors and new commenters to the site. Most likely because of the useful tips I learnt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog.

More details for this month’s stats: April served just over 386,508 page views to an average of 3,570 unique daily users The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 107,119.

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Ayuko Iwane 岩根あゆこ, Yuka Hirata 平田裕香, Airi Nakajima 中島愛里, Natsuko Nagaike 永池南津子, Yumi Sugimoto 杉本有美, Sayaka Kato 加藤沙耶香, and Kana Moriyama 森山花奈.