Ups and downs of my portfolio

my portfolio.

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Back in school, I used to code my portfolio, thinking that it is a great way to showcase my technical skills. So I put on my techy hat and start coding and coding. Thinking that I am learning while building something really useful. I launched my website with pride and left it hanging there for two years.

Then, I am looking for my internships; this is when I start to get desperate to show my capabilities. So, once again, I start coding and drawing and "refining' everything I have in my hard-drive and splash it all over my portfolio.

I landed myself a few good internships and freelance experience and thinking that portfolio got where I was.

Before I left my last internship, I asked for my portfolio feedback. Then, I was noted that they did not review my portfolio.

For whatever reason, I was glad to have this feedback.

I start to reflect on myself ...

1. I wonder, why people didn't view

2. and how long people stay in my portfolio

3. From which channel did they came from

4. Did my portfolio got delivered or was only my profile page did

5. Am I speaking it to the right audience with my content

6. Are people interested in contacting me with these content on the site

Curiosity brings people to somewhere new...

Noticing that I am lack of data to study on my real users since I coded everything. I decided to migrate my website to a new platform where I do not need to code it and have analytic implemented.

After using it a one month, I was able to see that there are over 300 views on the site

(I know … small traffic… )

but I was able to see the what kind of topics people are interested in, and looking for opportunities to engage more communication with different people.

With the help of the new data, I can now forecast and plan my content and engage with the community more efficiently.