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
Total Views and Reads
Umami and Neatstats both track brennan.day, 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: ~278.9K views
Reads: only Medium reports reads, 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 |
Visited from 184 countries/territories in total across all six inhabited continents.
Writing Output
- 2,000 average words per post
- +560,00 total words written
- +280 total posts published on brennan.day since January 2025
⌨️ Coding Time
Tracked via WakaTime from August 18, 2017 to September 14, 2026:
Total Time: +1,400 hrs
| 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% |
