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A few bloggers on WordPress have recently had the news that their free plan is having its storage reduced from 3GB to 500mb. On top of this it will only allow them 10k visitors per month.

If you are achieving 10k views a month I wanted to share some information with you that may help.

When we started with WordPress back in July, we immediately joined on the Premium plan ($8 per month). In this plan you are able to activate as revenue.

In our early months we had very few visitors and so were seeing little return on our initial investment. That changed once we reached 10k views.

November of 2021 was our first profitable month. We saw 12k views hit our site which converted into revenue of $11.89.

This covered not only our premium plan costs for the month but also our hosting cost for the website itself which combined comes to $9.50.

Since then we’ve improved our views but our weekly viewing figures are similar to that of the monthly cap on the free version of WordPress.

For the week beginning March 14th this year we received 10,735 views and for that we received ad revenue of $12.10. This is more than enough to cover our site costs for the month.

I agree this may not be the solution for everyone, but if you are nearing that 10k view limit each month then the likelihood is you could turn a profit by moving to the Premium plan.

With the Premium plan you’ll also get 13gb of storage.

Hopefully this post will help someone!

Peter Holland

Woehammer in 2021

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I’ve seen a few others post their blog stats and as a massive geek I always find stats interesting. So for those like minded individuals here’s our first few months as stats!

We started posting in July this year with one or two posts, which then picked up in August until we were then getting to the point of posting once a day (sometimes more).

Views by Month

  • July – 74 Views
  • August – 1,378 Views
  • September – 3,021 Views
  • October – 5,907 Views
  • November – 12,049 Views
  • December – 29,767 Views

For me this is staggering, in September I was over the moon with 3k views and had the personal aim of a 6% improvement month on month, however we’ve smashed that by essentially doubling the views we get each month.

I’m fully aware that this will not continue into 2022, but to come off a month where we achieved almost 30,000 views after only being around for a little under 6 months is great!

What’s also pleasing is that when we do get a visit to the site people are more than often viewing another article after their initial visit, with the average visitor viewing 1.65 articles each.

What’s being Read?

By far our most popular posts are the Top Three lists for competitive tournaments. These fill out five of the top right posts. So be assured you’ll see more of these in 2022.

Where are the views coming from?

This is possibly the most interesting part for me as initially a lot of the traffic in the first few months was driven by posts shared on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. In August our top traffic source was Reddit (144 views) followed by Twitter (47 views), and while these continue to contribute major traffic sources for us, they have now been overtaken by search engines with the WordPress Reader App also contributing a large chunk of traffic.

Traffic Sources for December

This is likely to be due to us posting an article once a day and the various search engines starting to show these more regularly purely due to the amount of content we now have.

Who reads us?


It’s no surprise that we appeal to the English speaking world primarily, though we do have a high readership from many of the other European nations (yes, I consider us to be European despite the catastrophe that is Brexit).

So what next?

Well we already have plans to improve upon our top three lists postings with more in-depth analysis of the lists. We also have numerous tactic articles planned out as well as beginner army suggestions for each faction in AoS and 40k. As well as this I’m hoping to improve the look of the site itself as well as getting one or two more regular writers.

Either way, I wanted to thank all those who have visited us and my fellow Woehammerers Declan, Ed and Dave a Happy New Year, and here’s to an even better 2022!