← all tags

0 entries
week 1
0 entries
week 2
0 entries
week 3
0 entries
week 4
0 entries
week 5
0 entries
week 6
0 entries
week 7
0 entries
week 8
0 entries
week 9
0 entries
week 10
0 entries
week 11
0 entries
week 12
0 entries
week 13
0 entries
week 14
0 entries
week 15
0 entries
week 16
0 entries
week 17
0 entries
week 18
0 entries
week 19
0 entries
week 20
0 entries
week 21
0 entries
week 22
0 entries
week 23
0 entries
week 24
0 entries
week 25
0 entries
week 26
0 entries
week 27
0 entries
week 28
0 entries
week 29
0 entries
week 30
0 entries
week 31
0 entries
week 32
0 entries
week 33
0 entries
week 34
0 entries
week 35
0 entries
week 36
0 entries
week 37
1 entry
week 38
0 entries
week 39
0 entries
week 40
0 entries
week 41
0 entries
week 42
0 entries
week 43
0 entries
week 44
0 entries
week 45
0 entries
week 46
1 entry
week 47
2 entries
week 48
1 entry
week 49
1 entry
week 50
0 entries
week 51
0 entries
week 52

6 entries over 52 weeks of #plantsm.art activity. Less More

Writing 4 posts

Bits 3 bits

blurb #plantsm.art, #analytics & #umami

Woke up to a massive “god candle” appearing in my Umami instance for Plant🌱Smart. I had to do a triple-take as I immediately wrote it off as Google finally re-indexing the site after almost 2 years of nothing. Then, I took a much closer look and noticed 99% of the traffic was coming from email clients. Which, to be frank, I found quite odd. Why email clients? As it turns out, The Morning Brew — a popular news… newsletter in the States — mentioned my little project in that morning’s issue. Almost 10k visits to the site when the most that could be expected was, maybe, 20 per day if I was lucky. After all, I haven’t really done much in the way of advertising it. The big spike has obviously fizzled out quite a bit, but as a result, the site has been linked to and mentioned in several other places. This can only be good for the site’s rankings in Google’s index, so no complaints coming from me!

A screenshot of the site's Umami traffic chart.

I’m obviously a little bummed out the traffic has steadied out as much as it has, but this is a small purpose-built utility site. I’m not going to get 1,000’s of visitors per day here as a normal occurrence. Just stoked that people find it interesting!

image #plantsm.art

With all the frenetic redesigning of Plant🌱Smart these past few weeks, I couldn’t believe I completely forgot about the image gallery on the details page. The old design looked a bit dated like everything else, soooo the galleries also get a refresh and lightbox. Yay.

blurb #plantsm.art

I should update Plant🌱Smart. Thinking it should get a similar treatment to this site. Maybe even exploring moving completely to Hugo instead of a haphazardly-assembled static Svelte site.