Following up on the recognition we got this week for doing citizen journalism, I thought I'd share some of the data on traffic to the site. Just judging from the number of folks who post content, you might guess that our readership is quite small. Well, here's the numbers:

• 21,861 -- The total number of page loads over the past 30 days. (Via Statcounter.)
• 9,521 -- This is the total number of unique visits to OlyBlog in the last 30 days. A visit is unique if there hasn't been a page load from that IP address for at least 3 hours. (Via Statcounter.)
• 705 -- The daily average number of page loads over the past 30 days. (Via Statcounter.)
• 307 -- The daily average number of unique visits (over the last 30 days). (Via Statcounter.)
• 221 -- The number of registered users on OlyBlog.
• 95 -- The number of links to OlyBlog from 38 other blogs. (Via Technorati.)

The short story is that between 300 and 500 people look at the blog each day, looking at a couple of pages each visit. Of the 221 registered users, roughly 50 have been "active," i.e., posting to the front page or making frequent comments. For a more qualitative take, I must say that I'm amazed every day by what a wonderfully collaborative endeavor this has become. I love the rich and interesting ideas that everyone has contributed to the blog (not to mention the creative usernames people come up with; current favorite: "username"). My only wish is that even more people begin to contribute original material -- cover events that they attend, write about their neighborhood, or opine about city politics.