Here’s a quick look back at some figures from 2024, for anyone interested.
There are currently 20 people who contribute something towards the site each month, via the Ko-fi page, and 26 more made one-off contributions. Thank you to all of you. This site isn’t about making money, but being able to pay the costs (below) and more really helps.
Costs
Each month the costs are roughly as below, almost exactly the same as last year:
| Item | Company | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web and database server | Mythic Beasts | £41 | Also hosts two other, less popular, websites |
| Daily diary emails | Buttondown | £20 | |
| pepysdiary.com domain | Mythic Beasts | £1 | |
| @samuelpepys on Mastodon | Heroku | £4 | |
| Media file hosting | AWS S3 | £0 | A fraction of the £1 I spend hosting several things there |
| Discussion group | Groups.io | £0 | Should cost £21 but we have an old, free plan |
| Transactional emails | Sendgrid | £0 | e.g. password reset emails |
| Web analytics | Cloudflare | £0 | |
| Code hosting and deployment | GitHub | £0 | |
| Uptime monitoring | StatusCake | £0 | |
| Error logging | Sentry | £0 | |
| Total | £66 |
Some stats
Over 2024 the site had 1,362,740 page views, and 800,630 “visits”.
In December it had 106,330 page views, and 57,530 visits.
Over the past 30 days, 41% of visits came from the US, 30% from the UK, and 7% from Canada.
2,666 annotations/comments were posted across the site during 2024, 126 less than in 2023.
There are currently 1,595 people who receive diary entries by email every day, 259 more than in 2023.
The discussion group has 671 members (26 more than in 2023) and 305 emails were posted (163 less than in 2023) to it during 2024.
@samuelpepys on Mastodon currently has 5,683 followers, and @samuelpepys.bsky.social on Bluesky – new in 2024! – has 3,585 followers.
Thanks everyone
Thank you all for your contributions and just enjoying the site for another year!
I started adding a few more letters to the site in recent months but ran out of time – there are plenty more on the way, which I’ll try to add over the coming months, for those of you wanting more Pepys than the diary alone can provide.
All the best for 2025/1662!
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