The TransLate blog just hit 80,000 page views (see 20,000, 30,000, 40,000, 50,000, 60,000, and 70,000 for historical context). The period of November 26th, 2009 to April 1, 2010 is 17 weeks, which represents a slow pace with a few search engine hits and a few spikes when someone new discovers the blog. There hasn’t been a lot to write about, at least regarding transsexual transition, and maybe that is a signal that it’s time to move on. I don’t know. Here are some statistics and lists that graphically show the recent trends.
Lower down, I’ll share with you which pages were most popular and what sort of searches people conduct to find the blog.
Here’s a visual look at the blog since its inception, month-by-month, the initial slow growth coinciding with a slow coming out process, followed by the lofty peaks of April (5076 views that month) as I disclosed my transsexual transition plans to everyone, followed by a lull in May and another set of peaks probably coinciding with my facial feminization surgery in late June 2008. There was a little hump of interest in July – September, after which the blog has seen fairly steady volume of between 2000 and 3000 views per month. There’s an uptick in July and August as I write about my GRS in Trinidad (who doesn’t like to read about surgery, right?), and then there hasn’t been a lot of action since then.
Translate Month-by-Month Page Views
And here’s a graph of the week-by-week look, which WordPress picks up in mid- to late-2009.
Week-by-Week since November 2009
Finally, just for fun, this third chart is a time-series graph covering just the past 30 days’ of stats.
Daily Page Views, most recent 30 days
What do people read? Here are the top posts for the past 30 days (views > 1)
Top Posts for 30 days ending 2010-04-02 (Summarized)
2010-03-03 to Today
How do people find their way here? They click on someone else’s links. Here’s the location of those hyperlinks for the past 30 days (and frequency).
Referrers for 30 days ending 2010-04-03 (Summarized)
2010-03-04 to Today
They also use search engines. Here are the search terms (and number of times repeated) for the past 30 days
Who knew that so many people would type “green dress,” “Ray Liota,” “Catalyst,” or “FFS” in search engines?
Search Terms for 30 days ending 2010-04-03 (Summarized)
2010-03-04 to Today
| Search | Views |
|---|---|
| green dress | 125 |
| catalyst | 82 |
| ray liotta | 65 |
| trans 101 | 39 |
| ffs | 36 |
| green dresses | 36 |
| transsexual transition | 24 |
| transgender transition | 24 |
| black blood | 18 |
| percocet 30 | 15 |
| trans late | 12 |
| armani suits | 12 |
| fitful | 11 |
| nice men | 9 |
| transexual transition | 9 |
| armani suit | 8 |
| ray liotta surgery | 8 |
| ugly face | 8 |
| percocet | 8 |
| ray liotta eyes | 7 |
| ffs surgery | 6 |
| alfred e newman | 6 |
| other words for marriage | 5 |
| susan stanton transsexual | 5 |
| ffs before and after | 5 |
| what do percocets look like | 5 |
| microsoft transsexual exec | 5 |
| sample medical certificate | 5 |
| gender discrimination survey | 5 |
| time series graph | 5 |
| chin surgery swelling | 4 |
| joyce george bailey | 4 |
| my mtf transition plans | 4 |
| transgender ffs | 4 |
| transgender and the faa | 3 |
| justin tanis | 3 |
| medical certificates sample picture | 3 |
| carol cometto | 3 |
| medical certificate sample | 3 |
| invisible dress | 3 |
| transsexual surgery timeline | 3 |
| survey examples gender discrimination | 3 |
| ffs spiegel | 3 |
| mtf boobs | 3 |
| marci bowers before and after pictures | 3 |
| transitioning from male to female | 3 |
| ashley george transition to female | 3 |
| beginninglifeforums | 3 |
| dr.spiegel ffs | 3 |
| ffs before after | 3 |
TransLate 
April 3, 2010 at 7:53 pm
I know you weren’t really asking, but I can’t resist answering your question: I don’t want to read about surgery! Medical-phobic me skipped most of the GRS and other medical posts (or skimmed them very quickly to hit only the non-surgical paragraphs). Medical wimp, that’s me.
April 3, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Susan, it was something I wrestled with, trying to find a balance between too much personal disclosure and not acknowledging the surgical nature of my transition. I am still not entirely sure just what needs to be said and what needs to be omitted. For my own part, what interests me the most is the psychological and sociological, and I could care less about the surgical. But some people are really interested in surgery, and since I have personal knowledge of how it works and what it’s like, is it fair to withhold this knowledge?