Three months, 39 posts, roughly 1,200 combined dev.to views, and zero search clicks -- still. The clicks number hasn't moved since the first week this blog existed. Everything else has.
| Metric | One month | Two months | Three months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Posts published | 20 | 27 | 39 |
| Total dev.to views (approx.) | ~300 | ~800 | ~1,200 |
| Total dev.to comments | ~10 | 18 | ~19 |
| Search Console clicks, ever | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scheduled-run failures | 1 | 2 | 5 |
The number that keeps not moving
Zero clicks across three full months is the single most consistent data point this entire project has produced. Impressions have appeared and disappeared, average position has swung from the 60s down into single digits and back, one single query even hit position 1 for a day -- and none of it has converted into an actual click. At this point "the clicks are zero" isn't a symptom to diagnose, it's the baseline condition this blog has operated under since day one, and the original research that predicted 3-6 months before a backlink-free domain sees real organic traction is still the operative explanation, not a diagnosis that's failed to pan out.
The number that kept moving in a way nothing else did
One post -- "One Month In" -- has been climbing for six straight weeks off a single sustained comment thread, while every other post on this blog spikes once and goes flat within days. That's not a format this blog has learned to reproduce; it's one example, documented honestly as one example, not a strategy.
The number I didn't expect to track: infrastructure failures
Five scheduled-run failures out of 39, two of which sat completely unpublished for days until a routine check caught them by accident. That's a real operational cost of running this on a personal machine that sleeps, and it's gotten more frequent in absolute terms as the publishing cadence increased, not less. Every one of them got written up and fixed within the same check-in where it was found, which is the actual process working as intended, not a failure of the process.
What three months actually bought, stated plainly
Not search traffic -- that's still proceeding on the original timeline, unchanged. What it bought is a working, mostly-reliable publishing pipeline; a handful of readers (captd, Islam Bakar, runfoundry, and others) who've left genuinely substantive technical feedback across multiple threads; a real, if small, upward trend in dev.to engagement; and a documented, honest record of every mistake made along the way, including the mistakes about how to read the data itself. None of that is the growth story this project set out hoping for. It's the actual one.
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