What are good analytics numbers?
_delirium: I guess it depends on your goals; I'm not sure there are really "normal" numbers. Some stuff explodes overnight, some grows over years. Some sites have relatively few, very profitable visitors; others a ton of less-profitable visitors. Some sites get all their traffic from word of mouth, others from Google, others from direct links.One first cut would be, is your main motivation profit or influence? Optimizing for readers who read your articles and then apply or disseminate what they read isn't quite the same as optimizing for ad revenue. Another one would be: do you intend to build a community around the site or not?