Off road finance turned one year old two days ago.  That’s counting from the first post written specifically for the site.  I posted a math puzzle I’d written for another forum two days earlier so I guess if you want to be pedantic the site is one year and four days old.  Thus far it’s been an interesting experience, and overall a positive one.  I thought I’d share a few numbers about how things have gone:

• Posts: 72, counting this one
• Typical daily human visitors: 50
• Subscribers: 44 Google Reader subscribers plus an unknown number through other services
• Profits from ads: $0 (there aren’t any)
• Profits in speculative investment portfolio: $1,048.30 (on $30,000 notional capital) as of today.  This has been a bad month.
• Profits in speculative investment portfolio (annualized return): about 12%.  Kind of dogging it thus far – target is 15%+.
• Forums killed: 1 – my attempt to create a forum was killed by a lack of traffic and an excess of spam.  I may try again in the future, because the world does need a better trading forum.
• Guest posts: 4
• Comments: 57 plus a few that died with the forum
• Errors reported via comments by alert readers: about 4
• Google page rank: 2 of 10
• MozRank site authority: 31/100
• Technorati Business Blogs Rank: #226 (really?)
• Alexa Rank: 1,238,078 global, 271,381 US
• Incoming links: 5,820 according to Google webmaster tools.
• Positive reader contacts via email: about 10
• Negative reader contacts via email: 0
• Emails asking to guest post per week: about 5, none of whom appear to have read the guest posting policy
• Cheeky awards given: 1
• Most popular post:Additive vs. Multiplicative Thinking About Money with 584 page views.
• Twitter accounts updated: 0 – which is probably a mistake, but I just can’t bring myself to be a twit.
• Google searchers per day: about 20
• Non-Google searchers per day: about 0
• Fully baked trading systems shared: 1
• Half baked trading systems shared: two or three
• Typical post length: about 1700 words
• Estimated total words written: 120,000
• Equivilent book: 400 page trade paperback
• Publishing offers for said book: 0
• Most complimentary fellow blogger: Control Your Cash
• Theme and font changes: 2 (I think this is a keeper unless people are silently hating it)

Thanks everyone for a good year, and here’s to an even better year two!