3.5 Million Hits!

Another day, another milestone here at TransGriot.  

Seems like I just wrote that post back on October 27 that discussed me passing the 3 million hit mark.  

Thanks to your continued support of my cyberhome sometime today while I was enroute back to  Houston I passed the 3.5 million hit mark.

Once again I deeply appreciate all of you who take valuable time out of your day to read the blog and my take on the currents events and issues of the day, and who read my take on trans issues from an Afrocentric perspective. 

It's a now six year old labor of love that I enjoy doing and I'm blessed to have this electronic platform to tell mine and the story of African-American transpeople here and across the African Diaspora.

Now that I've passed 3.5 million hits, on to the next milestone.

My Hit Counter's 5th Anniversary

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the day that I installed a hit counter on this blog and yes, there's a story behind it.

I'd just celebrated TransGriot's first blogiversary and was curious to find out exactly how many people were reading my nascent blog.  

It happened to be King Day 2007 when I finally got around to doing so and once I did install it I was startled to discover I was getting 400 people a day visiting it.

From that day forward I stepped up my blog writing game in quality and the frequency of how often I post here at TransGriot and it has thankfully paid off. 


I get almost ten times the number of people visiting now on a daily basis as I did on January 17, 2007. At the time I compiled this anniversary post I've had a total of 3,309,654 people surf by or continue to check with me and see what I and my guest posters have to say about a wide variety of subjects including trans ones.

And I thank you readers for continuing to stop by my cyberhome to do so. 

TransGriot Milestone Hit Posts

As much as I enjoy compiling and writing the posts you love to read at TransGriot, I also marvel at how fast it has grown to become the award winning place it is today. 

I remember how shocked I was to discover on the January 17, 2007 King Day I finally installed the hit counter on this blog I had 400 people a day reading it.   Now I get those numbers in less than two hours and consider it a disappointing day if I don't get at least 4000 people a day visiting it. 

One of the things I like doing is when I hit blogging milestones, I not only celebrate and mark the occasion with a post so I have a historical record of the day and time I accomplished that feat, I jot my thoughts down at that particular moment as well.  

I started the blog on January 1, 2006 and note it took me 38 months to get to 500,000 hits.  After that it's taking me mere months to hit these milestones.    

500,000 hits  March 1, 2009

1 million hits   December 10, 2009

1.5 million hits  August 27, 2010

2 million hits  January 28, 2011


2.5 million hits  June 1, 2011

3 million hits  October 27, 2011

But one of the undeniable facts is that without you readers coming by on a regular basis,  I couldn't do it without you.  And if you really like what I do here on these electronic pages, feel free to drop some bills in the TransGriot Tip Jar in the upper left hand margin.

Thank you for stopping by TransGriot, and on to the next milestone.