Findory.com has been live since January of 2004. The website has grown rapidly over the last two years.
Every quarter since Q4 2004, I have posted charts showing Findory's growth. The Q1 2006 numbers are now in:
As in the previous posts (
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]), the data show total "viewed hits" (hits excluding robots and redirects) for each quarter. Viewed hits for March 2006 were 5.8M, viewed page views were 4.7M. Total hits (including robots, redirects, etc.) on the Findory.com webservers in March 2006 were 9.5M.
The chart shows Findory growth slowing a bit in Q1 2006, down to about 8% per month (24% per quarter) from the 16% per month of the previous quarter.
The slower growth is not surprising. Development at Findory
has been clipped and PR efforts reduced. In addition, my analysis of the effectiveness of our (tiny) advertising budget showed it was converting poorly, so I decided to eliminate it. All of these could impact Findory growth rates.
Findory was cash flow positive for all of Q1 2006. On top of our continuing growth, this is good news. The extra cash Findory is generating is modest, sufficient for an additional server or two for the cluster, but definitely nice to have.
Looking toward the future, I would like to see
Findory move into other products (pictures, video, podcasts), further develop our
personalized advertising, work on a more mature version of our alpha
personalized web search, improve support for mobile devices, add additional customization features for power users, expand the breadth of our news and blog crawls, and offer internationalized versions (German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese) of Findory.
There is much to do!
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