Out of curiosity I compared the website statistics for javalobby, ajaxian, theserverside and infoq on compete. The chart below shows the # of visitors for each of these websites between Dec’2006 and Dec’2007.

While all these websites are popular among java practitioners, it is interesting to note that ajaxian has more visitors since June’07 than the combination of all the other three sites. This can mean two things:

1. A blog with good content can out perform a popular website in the same market segment

2. The websites javalobby, theserverside and infoq would have to rethink their strategy on the kind of content that they want to present and how often ?