I’ve put the raw numbers from the reader survey together for those who might be interested.
Twelve people responded to the survey, which is a pretty good sample of the people who read the blog regularly; Based on my referrer logs, on average there are 22 readers who visit more than once a week, so the survey got about 50% response. Overall, this site averages about 3,500 unique visitors per month, about 160 of whom visit more than once a month, so the regular readers make up less than 1% of the total number of visitors, and 13.75% of repeat visitors. I’d love to convert some more of those people who visit now and then into regulars, but chiggers can’t be boozers.
I didn’t do a lot of fancy analysis of the numbers for you. I’ve provided the median response for each item in Questions 1 and 2 and then included a simple chart of the medians. That’s about as much info as I was looking for. There’s no personally identifiable information in the PDF I’ve uploaded, so don’t sweat it. I am responding individually to the people who wrote in the open-ended questions via e-mail.
I don’t know a thing about referrer logs, but I’m assuming they can’t tell you who reads you via RSS?
Too true. AFAIK, nobody has developed a mechanism for tracking how many people subscribe to an RSS feed. It would be invaluable, since a lot of blog reading is done through feeds. I almost never look at blogs directly, but still manage to read several dozen regularly.