Some drugged statistics
Dec. 23rd, 2005 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demiurgentStill feel crappy. Am in the office. Definite articles difficult at best.
So, because it's dead in here (just because I absolutely have to be here doesn't mean anyone else is), and because it's been some time, I just did a full check on my recent statistics and the like.
Now, one of the things about Websnark is... I keep thinking that's it. We've hit our stride. We've found our audience. We're done, not counting major spikes in readership. I mean, Dude. Many daily pageviews.
And I keep being... well, wrong.
We have already done half again as much in bandwidth this month as we did for the entire month of November. Or October. We have doubled the amount of bandwidth we did in all of August.
I feel it necessary to mention there are eight days left in the month.
The bandwidth tells the story, but the other numbers are just... wow. Our pageviews have just plain exploded. All the indicators have exploded.
To date, this month, we have two hundred and twenty five thousand, four hundred and forty one unique IPs logged in. With eight days to go.
This is absurd. I must be having an ibu+codeine dream haze.
So, I checked the referrers. Maybe I missed a major link. Maybe Randy put a link up to me, or Scott did, or Gabe and Tycho.
No. No, the highest referrer was Comicon, from Joey Manley's categorizing of me as a "Troublemaker," but while it's a dang nice referral with a good number of readers, it's not a Wanging. Next down? Schlock Mercenary and Candicomics. (Starline gave me some of the credit for her being spotted. I've seen the referral traffic from her site back to me. Clearly, I had nothing to do with Keenspot noticing her.) Again, both good referrals, but not OMGWTFBBQ.
No. No, people are just showing up.
It's been on an upward trend, I see now, straight through since August. So, everything I've said about how you find your natural audience and we would lose readers as quickly as we got them from here on out? Totally wrong.
A few other notes:
Our referrals back from the Green Avenger have also been strong. I'd say that's a strip to look out for.
A referral from Falcon Twin, which has cheesecake up today (pretty darn nice cheesecake, at that). However, going back a few strips reveals a remarkably pretty Story comic. Add it to the pile...
I got linked to by a Something Positive Livejournal Community post that has now been deleted. I officially don't want to know.
(The Something Positive end of year strips are extremely cool, if you haven't looked yet.)
Apparently, Comic Genesis users took some mild notice of the fact that I wrote about a few CG strips this month. Apparently they'd like this trend to continue.
The Broken Saints related blog and the Yirmumah related blog both linked to me on the same day. Yirmumuh beat Broken Saints's referrals by about four to one. I find myself oddly gratified about this.
Niego linked me. That's one of the strips I actively regret not talking up when I had a chance to.
I need to make certain not to make that mistake with Joe and Monkey.
And Arthur, KotaS.
And El Goonish Shive.
Referrals from some of the Star Trek sites over my Prime Directive snark. Not many yet -- just a trickle... but the sites that have noticed it seem to like it. One can never be certain with subjects like this. I'm not ruling out being found dead at Arisia -- slain by poisoned Raktajino or something.
Wikipedia has linked to one of Weds's articles -- in the Radio Girl entry. This to me is a sign of power. A non-webcomics... er... thingy considers us authoritative in a non-webcomics area. My general feelings about wikipedia aside, this is cool.
One of the neatest things is finding the forum topic posts where you've received, like, four referrals. They're typically from people who wouldn't ever figure you'll read what they say. It's a different kind of feedback. More personal in a way. And, of course, I still remember the day Gav Bleuel found me after seeing a small number of referrals from me to him.
At the same time, when you get to the bottom of the referrals list, you also get the referral spam. It's amazing how many poker sites and viagra dealers love Websnark.
The last non-spam referrer on the list? Sofawolf.com -- in an advertisement for the Digger collection.
Dude.
A quarter million uniques.
I need a drink.
So, because it's dead in here (just because I absolutely have to be here doesn't mean anyone else is), and because it's been some time, I just did a full check on my recent statistics and the like.
Now, one of the things about Websnark is... I keep thinking that's it. We've hit our stride. We've found our audience. We're done, not counting major spikes in readership. I mean, Dude. Many daily pageviews.
And I keep being... well, wrong.
We have already done half again as much in bandwidth this month as we did for the entire month of November. Or October. We have doubled the amount of bandwidth we did in all of August.
I feel it necessary to mention there are eight days left in the month.
The bandwidth tells the story, but the other numbers are just... wow. Our pageviews have just plain exploded. All the indicators have exploded.
To date, this month, we have two hundred and twenty five thousand, four hundred and forty one unique IPs logged in. With eight days to go.
This is absurd. I must be having an ibu+codeine dream haze.
So, I checked the referrers. Maybe I missed a major link. Maybe Randy put a link up to me, or Scott did, or Gabe and Tycho.
No. No, the highest referrer was Comicon, from Joey Manley's categorizing of me as a "Troublemaker," but while it's a dang nice referral with a good number of readers, it's not a Wanging. Next down? Schlock Mercenary and Candicomics. (Starline gave me some of the credit for her being spotted. I've seen the referral traffic from her site back to me. Clearly, I had nothing to do with Keenspot noticing her.) Again, both good referrals, but not OMGWTFBBQ.
No. No, people are just showing up.
It's been on an upward trend, I see now, straight through since August. So, everything I've said about how you find your natural audience and we would lose readers as quickly as we got them from here on out? Totally wrong.
A few other notes:
Our referrals back from the Green Avenger have also been strong. I'd say that's a strip to look out for.
A referral from Falcon Twin, which has cheesecake up today (pretty darn nice cheesecake, at that). However, going back a few strips reveals a remarkably pretty Story comic. Add it to the pile...
I got linked to by a Something Positive Livejournal Community post that has now been deleted. I officially don't want to know.
(The Something Positive end of year strips are extremely cool, if you haven't looked yet.)
Apparently, Comic Genesis users took some mild notice of the fact that I wrote about a few CG strips this month. Apparently they'd like this trend to continue.
The Broken Saints related blog and the Yirmumah related blog both linked to me on the same day. Yirmumuh beat Broken Saints's referrals by about four to one. I find myself oddly gratified about this.
Niego linked me. That's one of the strips I actively regret not talking up when I had a chance to.
I need to make certain not to make that mistake with Joe and Monkey.
And Arthur, KotaS.
And El Goonish Shive.
Referrals from some of the Star Trek sites over my Prime Directive snark. Not many yet -- just a trickle... but the sites that have noticed it seem to like it. One can never be certain with subjects like this. I'm not ruling out being found dead at Arisia -- slain by poisoned Raktajino or something.
Wikipedia has linked to one of Weds's articles -- in the Radio Girl entry. This to me is a sign of power. A non-webcomics... er... thingy considers us authoritative in a non-webcomics area. My general feelings about wikipedia aside, this is cool.
One of the neatest things is finding the forum topic posts where you've received, like, four referrals. They're typically from people who wouldn't ever figure you'll read what they say. It's a different kind of feedback. More personal in a way. And, of course, I still remember the day Gav Bleuel found me after seeing a small number of referrals from me to him.
At the same time, when you get to the bottom of the referrals list, you also get the referral spam. It's amazing how many poker sites and viagra dealers love Websnark.
The last non-spam referrer on the list? Sofawolf.com -- in an advertisement for the Digger collection.
Dude.
A quarter million uniques.
I need a drink.
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Date: 2005-12-23 05:26 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas Man, and get better soon!
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Date: 2005-12-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-23 05:36 pm (UTC)Because, seriously, dude.
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Date: 2005-12-23 05:38 pm (UTC)(You put ONE Hello Kitty head on a Transformer, and you're marked for life, I tell ya....)
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Date: 2005-12-23 06:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-23 05:50 pm (UTC)Thanks for the public good vibes.
You know, when you post about how great but weird it feels to find out that you're suddenly, somehow, one of the cool kids, I like to try to make sure you're aware that that's exactly the feeling a 'snark gives to one of us who you think are the cool kids. So thanks for what you do, on behalf of all of us who don't mind me speaking for them.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-23 06:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-23 06:03 pm (UTC)(Work, home, school, and his folks' place. ;)
(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-23 07:14 pm (UTC)Still.. I can't imagine that makes much dent on this giganticus count! hehe grats, man.
Quality shines through.
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Date: 2005-12-23 07:33 pm (UTC)(Kinda like 'It's a Wonderful Life' and Clarence and the little bell ringing and an angel getting its wings. Everytime you snark a comic, Websnark gets a link ;)
Anyway... that's one theory of mine. :)
(As a side note, congrats on the readership picking up. Websnark is one of my favorite sites to hit daily and I like to see it successful.)
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Date: 2005-12-23 09:07 pm (UTC)But I was curious how that shows up on your stats? Invisible readers? There's 147 of us on there.
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Date: 2005-12-23 10:27 pm (UTC)It's all amazing.
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Date: 2005-12-23 09:56 pm (UTC)Of course, you already plugged WLP in passim way back yonder, at least mentioning that we were one of the first to link to you. I really, REALLY doubt we're one of your major feeders, though.
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Date: 2005-12-24 12:33 am (UTC)This isn't making me more likely to write anything. :(
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Date: 2005-12-24 12:35 am (UTC)a) WTF with classifying my post as sample comments against Promo Girl? I like Promo Girl!
b) WTF with Networked Eye Socket Girl linking to us? Didn't they notice?
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Date: 2005-12-24 03:14 am (UTC)What? Nooo! Really? (it was probably just me, about a hundred thousand times.)
How great! Someday the wide world will recognize your genius and you will be bowled over by the number of uniques. It's really because of YOU and WEDNESDAY. The two of you are TALENTED.
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Date: 2005-12-24 12:59 pm (UTC)