I just wrote a post on BigHugeLabs.com about how I’ve had 1,000,000 unique visitors over the past 30 days. That’s a million individual people. The more I think about it, the more it blows me away. Until the internet came along and changed everything, the only way for a person to reach a million people on a regular basis would be to get on national television. Now any schmo with a website can do it. I think that’s great. It’s true I’m not doing anything world-shaking but I think on average people leave my site a little happier than when they arrived. A net increase in world happiness is good enough for me.

On a related note, I noticed that Firefox has taken the lead among visitors to BigHugeLabs.com (and has since August). I wouldn’t take this as a general indicator of anything as BigHugeLabs.com isn’t exactly mainstream but it’s interesting to see nonetheless.

Comments

1. knwd on 2008-11-17 07:25:12 wrote: Hey, congratulations! That’s huge! (And good karma too, hopefully!)

2. Dave Bruno on 2008-11-17 09:31:20 wrote: That’s awesome. Good job John.

3. Nikolay on 2008-11-18 16:31:26 wrote: What about f…d….com ?

4. John on 2008-11-18 18:51:33 wrote: flagrantdisregard.com? I’ll steal Maggie’s slogan as an answer: “Famous among dozens.” :-)

5. Brett on 2008-11-21 11:52:57 wrote: The million visitors is most likely due to Digg. I saw a couple of bighugelabs images being Dugg recently. Good job getting that much traffic. Too bad you didn’t have any Google Ads up on your pages, you might have made a buck or two.

6. John on 2008-11-21 14:41:35 wrote: Actually, the site gets dugg a couple of times per month (or techmemed or stumbled, etc.) but those are small one-time blips and barely contribute anything to overall traffic. Last month I was at 950,000 and the month before that I was around 900,000 or so. Ads seem like a good idea at first but a) No one would use the On Black tool if there were ads on it and b) Digg swarms don’t click ads anyway. They come, they eat, they leave. :-)