Build in public - August 2022 - Report
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Introduction
In this report, I'll go over the progress I made while working on zillowdataexporter.com and the Zillow Data Exporter extension in August 2022 and analyze a few key metrics that I keep track of.
Google developer console
The Google developer console is a tool that is used to analyze how often does zillowdataexporter.com's links show up in the Google search results.
Screenshot of the Google developer console.
From the screenshot, we can see that links from zillowdataexporter.com showed up 1.59K times in Google's search results and the links were clicked 2 times within the month of August.
The number of appearances in the Google search results is displayed with the K suffix. This means that to you need to multiply the number by 1000. In August 2022, this number was 1.59K, which means that the number of times that zillowdataexporter.com's links showed up in the search results is around 1,590.
One of my articles regarding Excelformulabot titled Alternative to Excelformulabot has been quite popular in the search results.
I only wrote this blog post because I thought that it would be a good idea to explain what this tool does and how it complements the Zillow Data Exporter extension.
Plausible
Plausible is a tool that I use to track the number of visitors to zillowdataexporter.com. It is very useful because it's privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics and does not track users across the web.
Screenshot of Plausible dashboard.
From the screenshot, we can see that there were 36 unique visitors on zillowdataexporter.com in August 2022. That represents a growth of 1% compared to July 2022.
NOTE: I purposely did not include visitors from Stockholm because this is where I am located and I don't want to count myself in the statistics. I also do not include any traffic coming from Twitter as this traffic is not what I am interested in. Finally I also do not count the users landing on the install page.
Chrome Web store
Screenshot of the Chrome web store
In August 2022, there were 14 users who were actively using the extension.
This is a 1300% increase compared to July 2022.
What's next?
The plan is simple but not easy:
- I will publish at least 5 high quality articles on zillowdataexporter.com during September 2022.
- I will continue building an audience on Twitter.
- I will interview people who are using Zillow Data Exporter and try to understand their needs.