The hits keep on coming - washingtonpost.com

May 17, 2009

Jonathan Coulton doesn't measure his success as a musician by the number of appearances he's made in the music magazines or blogs -- who needs that when you've got Google Analytics?

According the search engine's Web measurement tools, Coulton's Web site gets 50,000 to 60,000 visits per month, and about half of those are by people new to his site. Some visitors download a song and opt to pay a buck; many more download a song but don't pay. Coulton doesn't sweat that particular ratio so much because he's happy enough to be making more than he did a few years ago as a software programmer...