One year ago I published the first issue of Haskell Weekly, a free email newsletter about the Haskell programming language. For the first few months I ran it in stealth mode, making sure the idea made sense and ironing out all the kinks. In August I announced it here on my blog. Since then, about 20 new people subscribe each week. The most recent issue went out to 1,010 subscribers.

I expected that as more people subscribed, the relative number of people who actually opened the newsletter would go down. Much to my delight the open rate stayed relatively constant. I must be doing something right because 61% of subscribers opened the most recent issue. According to MailChimp, the industry average is 17%.

The story for the number of people who clicked on links in the newsletter is basically the same. For the most recent issue, 27% of subscribers clicked on at least one link. The industry average is only 2%.

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