Noodling on site analytics

[demiurgent]

According to Google Analytics, websnark's currently operating at about 60k pageviews for the past month, representing 22k "absolute unique visitors."

Which isn't a patch on the old days by any stretch (it was running around 60k pageviews a day for a while there), but better than being hit by fish any way you look at it. And there's been a significant spike over the last week and a half, no doubt fueled by my actually fucking writing. Good healthy new visit rate too.

Reasonably? It won't get near the old numbers. There's too much healthy diversity in that space at that point, and it's a very different world. But it's a good solid group of readers, and that makes me a happy King.

On the other hand, I wrote about James Grant and Mel Hynes on the same day I eulogized William F. Buckley. I'm anticipating a meteor killing me.

Comments

[ronin-kakuhito.livejournal.com]

Good to have you back, by the way. I've not joined in on any of the new comment threads yet, but I really love reading the core of people who have come back to comment on your posts. Doing good work Mr. Burns.

[onalark.livejournal.com]

Oh, just write an insightful 10-year retrospective on PvP Online. Your pageviews will go right up again. :)

(Then again, there is something to be said about the snug, close-knit community.)

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

I suspect not much will change, to be honest. Lightning, twice striking, stuff like that. :)

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

For the sake of argument, do you really, in your heart of hearts, want it to get near the old numbers? It just seems kind of nice now that the site isn't doing double-duty as a high-capacity drama incubator. But I don't suppose you of all people need reminding of that.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

Actually, for right now I'm working hard to avoid actually weighing in on the drama of the day. It seems to work better when I write about life and/or actual comics.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

Oh - to answer the question? Honestly, it doesn't matter how many people there are. I like to know, but I'm pretty pleased right now. If it goes up, cool. If not, that's cool too.

[hess42.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I'd probably read your stuff regardless of the topic. Love Banter Latte (your interpretation of the Persephone myth is abso-freaking-lutely amazing) and I have always enjoyed Websnark despite not having a particularly vested interest in webcomics in and of themselves. From my admittedly uninformed perspective, it appears that you're really having a good time with the recent posts, and I'm glad to see the posts themselves and your enjoyment of the process.

[fmphoenixhawk.livejournal.com]

A meteor, huh?

::Hefts rock::

Where do you want it mailed to? :p

[ubersoft.livejournal.com]

I find that analytics tends to drastically under-report traffic compared to other site tools (like webalizer and... er... the other one. Can't remember what the other one is called). Webalizer tends to over-report (because it doesn't really distinguish between real users and web-crawling bots), but I think the answer leans closer to webalizer than it does to analytics.

Of course the important thing is that you're writing and people are responding positively.