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layout: post
title: Sharing Some Basic Numbers For API Evangelist
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  http://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/api_evangelist_site/blog/api_evangelist_views.png
atomdate: 2016-09-14T22:00:00.000Z
tags:
  - API Evangelist
  - Evangelist
  - Sharing
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I don't spend a lot of time worrying about the website traffic numbers for API Evangelist. Once a week I'll take a look at my Google Analytics or CloudFlare dashboards. I don't write for page views, but I do like to know which of my areas of research is of interest to the public, and generally what people are clicking on.

To help me visit my numbers each week, I started publishing them to [the API Evangelist](https://github.com/kinlane/api-evangelist) [repo](https://github.com/kinlane/api-evangelist), and sharing via a [new numbers section](http://apievangelist.com/numbers/) on the site. 

I wanted to start with seeing the page views across all of my API research projects, giving me an idea of the interest levels in each area:

[![](http://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/api_evangelist_site/blog/api_evangelist_views.png)](http://apievangelist.com/views/2016-08/)

Next, I wanted to see the page views that each guide or white paper was getting in the top left corner of my site:

[![](http://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/api_evangelist_site/blog/api_evangelist_document_views.png)](http://apievangelist.com/feature/2016-08/)

After the views, I wanted to get a better understanding of what people were clicking on when it came to these guides & white papers:

[![](http://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/api_evangelist_site/blog/api_evangelist_guide_clicks.png)](http://apievangelist.com/clicks/2016-08/)

I also wanted to see which of the sponsor logos I include on the left-hand navigation were being clicked on by my readers:

[![](http://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/api_evangelist_site/blog/api_evangelist_sponsor_logo_clicks.png)](http://apievangelist.com/clicks/2016-08/)

Numbers do not drive what I do. I research and write about what grabs my attention, not based upon what drives traffic. However, I do like sharing these basic numbers with my partners, and readers, so that they can get a feel for my reach, and what areas of my research are of interest to the public.

[The numbers reports are simple static views of activity across my sites](http://apievangelist.com/numbers/). I will publish the JSON that drives the reports each week, along with the rest of my industry monitoring each week. Once I get enough data published to do some quarterly reports I will work to slice and dice, and see what I can come up with when it comes to visualizations. I'm enjoying playing with D3.js as a visual layer to the JSON data that I'm publishing to Github, across my API industry research--the problem is that I can get lost for hours doing this.