Well, the redesigned site has been live for 4 months now and it seems to have been worth all the pain.

In those four months its had over 70,000 visits and over 335,000 page views: comparable figures for the same period last year were 41,000 visits and 156,000 page views. (Thanks to Google Analytics for making all this metrics stuff available to webmasters for free.)

In addition, since April the site has generated over US$500 in Ad Sense pocket money – hardly enough to live on, but not bad given I pay not a cent to advertise it.

Money for nothing, as it were. Imagine the results after I start to do a deeper analysis of the stats and get tweeking things