How Much Time per Week Working on Web?

[keyplyr]

For those of you with a personal website, maintaining someone else's site, or just working on the web, how much time is spent per week?

My online work changes often, but currently each week I spend approximately the follow amount of time:

My Site
• Log analysis & related research: 4 hours
• Maintenace & edits: 1 hour
• Content development: 1-2 hours
• Link development: 2 hours
• Social Media & Mobile App traffic development: 4 hours

Client's Site
• University Library (building index): 6 hours

Volunteer Work
• WebmasterWorld: 2-4 hours
• Various elective work: 2 hours

Total: approx 22-25 hours per week working on the web & then I go to my day job :)

How much time do you spend working on the web each week?

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[lucy24]

#1. Too much.
#2. Not enough.

[ipco]

Client Sites
Development 20 hours
Maintenance 1-2 hours

My Sites
Rebuilding and consolidating flat into cms 10 hours
content development 2 hours
So, all in all, 35+ hours

And I go with Lucy's #2.

The rest of my time, helping my wife in her business.

[LifeinAsia]

#1 How many hours in a week?

[mack]

I tend not to think of it in terms of time, but goals set Vs goals accomplished.

I like to-do lists. I actually have one I created in php/MySQL that allows me to add to-do items and set its importance along with a description of task/notes etc. I then work my way through the items based on importance. I see the items as goals, and as things that "need" to be done. I don't factor time in.

As for time. As much as is needed to get your required tasks done properly.

Mack.

[tangor]

What I bill or what I do? These are not the same thing.

[iamlost]

I looked at past year and divided by 52 to derive the following, however that smooths the workflow a great deal as many days I don't work at all, others I work round the clock.

External marketing consulting: 9 hrs/wk.

Own sites:
* content updating (sites are content complete): 4 hrs/wk.
* direct ad space sales/content development: 8 hrs/wk.
* af marketing research/content development: 4 hrs/wk.
* backend research & development: 16 hrs/wk.
Note: it's fun :) I have to deliberately restrain/curtail my time.
* site marketing: 4 hrs/wk.
* other site business requirements: 5 hrs/wk.

Hmmm... 50 hrs/wk. A decade ago it was over twice that. Glad I'm semi-retired. :)

[keyplyr]

I tend not to think of it in terms of time, but goals set Vs goals accomplished.

Agreed mack, but that work ends up taking time which occupies part of your work week, right? Maybe not how you see it beforehand, but certainly when looking back.

[tangor]

I get the concept of the query (how many hours per week), but are we in a race to see who works less, or more? I spend exactly the number of hours I need (as does mack) to get the job done, whatever the job is. I had one job that was over 1300 hours to get started (and still on going) and one that took 3 minutes.

What I BILL/EXPENSE is one side. What I do (as in continuing my education/experience) is another. The only HOURS per week I really count is what I set aside for NOT WORKING (ie. play, relaxation, hugging a friend). In that regard that's (on average) one hour a day. In that regard SLEEP sometimes gets in the way. Meals don't count.

[kr21sunil]

Its all about depend on the requirement and the urgency of the website.
Usually I spend 2hrs on my website