If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you might have noticed that there were very few posts in April. Four, to be exact. That’s how much I used to blog in a week, not a whole month. There’s a couple of reasons for this – first, I got really busy with Federal Fiscal Year-End activities (many of my clients have a year that ends on March 31) and I didn’t get any time to post (or eat or sleep). Second, after a few weeks, not posting became a bit of a sick experiment.

I was anticipating that my Google Analytics account would show a marked drop in traffic the longer I went between posts when in fact, April saw some of my best, consistent traffic yet. The following is a screencap from my Google Analytics account which compares April, 2009 (when I only posted four times) to December, 2009 (when I posted 11 times):

This is an interesting look at the traffic. As you can see, my overall traffic is 15% higher in April than December and people are viewing 13% more content on my site after arriving. On the downside, people are spending significantly less time reading my blog. Since April was a bit of an experiment, I’m going to try a different experiment in May – one post every single day in May.

I want to play around with the content a bit too because some posts I’ve written are more popular than others – one post “How to Write a Great Consulting Resume“ has seen a massive spike in traffic in the past few months. Others, like my post about HHO fuel systems, has seen declining readership albiet from a pole position. In any case, it’s going to be tough to write every since day but I’m curious to see what it will do to my traffic. Stay tuned and I’ll cover this issue again in June and report on the results.