Stats & Press
Stats & Press
A look at the reach of my writing across platforms, plus a few notable moments of internet virality.
Press Highlights
- On the front page of Hacker News twice:
- The End of Eleventy — 229 points by ValentineC, 189 comments
- Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers: Oh My! Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS — 147 points by ChrisArchitect, 86 comments
- My most upvoted post ever on Lobste.rs: Widely discussed essay on open-source ethics — 495 points, 475 comments (+559, 73 off-topic, 2 spam)
- 2nd highest upvoted blogger on bubbles.town — Most Voted Blogs: 211 voters, 494 upvotes (behind Happily Imperfect at 187 voters, 652 upvotes)
Total Views and Reads
Umami and Neatstats both track brennan.day, so their numbers overlap and should not be added together as unique traffic. Medium is separate (blog.brennanbrown.ca).
| Platform | Period | Views | Reads | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medium / blog.brennanbrown.ca | Dec 2025–Aug 2026 | 80.7K | 24.6K | 1.359M presentations; +1,122 followers; +665 subscribers; $3,425.25 earnings |
| Umami / brennan.day | Jan 4–Sep 16, 2026 | 149K | n/a | 79.2K visitors; 96.1K visits; 81% bounce; 1m 6s duration |
| Neatstats / brennan.day | since Feb 20, 2026 | 198,242 total views | n/a | Displayed chart total: 177,571 views; most recent view 5 min ago |
Combined view estimate: Deduped using Neatstats for brennan.day: 80.7K + 198,242 = ~278.9K views
Reads: only Medium reports reads, so the known total is ~24,600 reads for Dec 2025–Aug 2026.
Countries Visited From
Top countries from Neatstats:
| Country | Visitors |
|---|---|
| United States | 60,984 |
| Canada | 39,568 |
| United Kingdom | 11,240 |
| Germany | 9,650 |
| Australia | 5,265 |
| France | 3,900 |
| Netherlands | 3,568 |
| India | 2,705 |
| Spain | 2,514 |
| Brazil | 2,465 |
| China | 2,361 |
| Sweden | 2,324 |
| Italy | 1,829 |
| Switzerland | 1,807 |
| Japan | 1,732 |
| Poland | 1,708 |
| Ireland | 1,596 |
| Finland | 1,263 |
| Norway | 1,196 |
| Singapore | 1,121 |
Umami’s top locations agree on the general pattern: US 29.9K / 50%, Canada 7.02K / 12%, UK 5.94K / 10%, Germany 4.83K / 8%, Singapore 2.52K / 4%.
Visited from 184 countries/territories in total (many of these are territories/dependencies, not sovereign states) across all six inhabited continents.
Writing Output
- 1,966 average words per post
- 562,165 total words written
- 286 total posts published on brennan.day since January 2025
⌨️ Coding Time
Tracked via WakaTime from August 18, 2017 to September 14, 2026:
Total Time: 1,428 hrs 46 mins
| Language | Time | % |
|---|---|---|
| Markdown | 743 hrs 56 mins | 52.07% |
| HTML | 152 hrs 10 mins | 10.65% |
| JavaScript | 134 hrs 5 mins | 9.38% |
| CSS | 79 hrs 15 mins | 5.55% |
| Python | 63 hrs 22 mins | 4.44% |
| YAML | 45 hrs 18 mins | 3.17% |
