How long did it take for your comic to get popular?

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:59 pm

Wow, I just realised I HAVE readers. I started working on my site again a few days ago, and my unique hits went from about 3 a day to 250 :|

Webkilla · Post by **Webkilla** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:31 pm

I've noticed a rather nasty trend in my comic's readership:

from november to april I had a daily average of around 110 hits a day... indiviual unique hits.

but...

the last two months have been half that! first 58 average a day last month, and so far I'm looking at an even lower monthly average for this month!

is there a summer/winter cycle in comic readership? I can't really tell if there is that much of a trend, the CG viewstat thingy only goes for one year back.. on that thing I can only see that untill last november that I had an avg. daily readership of around 40-50...

trick is I can't remember further back from that myself, even though the comic has been going for over two years now...

Geekblather · Post by **Geekblather** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:21 pm

I'd say it's more that with server issues the webtracker has been down, which means everyone's stats are lower than normal this month. I wouldn't worry about it.

Webkilla · Post by **Webkilla** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:56 pm

true dat

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:41 pm

Yeah, visits tend to drop a bit during summer, what with vacations and people spending more time out.

Datachasers · Post by **Datachasers** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:44 pm

i have no idea what my "stats" are .. i know the numbers jump a bit but.. i have no clue how to read the webilizer even when it *was* working ...

i would be estatic if i got a piece of fan art or mail ( i doubt it will happen this century though) with the stigma that CGI seems to have --

bleh ..

*sigh* oh well time to go back to work --

Liddell · Post by **Liddell** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:01 pm

My hits are actually slightly *up* this month, though there was really nowhere to go *but* up after such a lousy May.

I'm still waiting for popularity and hits from people who aren't *me*.

E · Post by E » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:34 pm

still able to get close to 100 visits a day, and haven't updated in 2 years.

2.7182818285

BoShek · Post by **BoShek** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:40 am

Yes, I feel like I account for most of my own hits. The truth is, in my case, I don't feel like my story really holds up with the first chapter incomplete... and that won't be done for, oh, I dunno, fourteen more comics or some such. Well, maybe it's better than that. Just gotta keep drawin' them pictures.

datachasers - I would feel a bit intimidated drawing fanart for a comic with shiny CGs like those. Is that what you were talking about when you mentioned the stigma of CG comics?

Lidell - I don't know how long popularity will take but I'm reading your comic now and I'm sure others will do the same soon so the hits will come.

Ayame Ex_Goddess · Post by **Ayame Ex_Goddess** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:19 am

I kinda seem to max out at about 180 unique hits a day (thanks to the Newsbox). I've never really been able to get much farther than that *sigh* ah well. SOMEDAY! *shakes fist*

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:27 pm

Still about 80 odd a day here, but with the third anniversary running over the last week, despite a negligible response to various threads about it and news pieces I've submitted to other sites, the numbers have pushed up a bit recently. I think this month it's running at over 100, and was about 90ish the month before that, so slowly does it.

July and August will probably see it peter back to it's regular numbers though.

Tyras · Post by **Tyras** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:02 am

Got 984 view yesterday. Still trying to figure out how the heck it happened, as there aren't any new outstanding referrals. Just a whole bunch of direct requests...

Granted, I've peaked in the low 800s before, but almost 1000 views? Startling.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:39 pm

I think that probably means someone (or more) read through much of your archive that day. I don't think views means individual readers.

Tyras · Post by **Tyras** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:49 pm

Not views exactly. Whatever the important number is. I know which one it is, I just can't recall the name of it. I don't use the CG stat thing so I only see the important number.

Fleakitten · Post by **Fleakitten** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:53 pm

Since I started using Project Wonderful & bidding on ad space I had nearly 200 hits and over 400 pages viewed in one day. I just wish one of them would leave a comment or something....

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:16 pm

Haha this thread is still going? It's gotta be older than most webcomics now.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:20 pm

Komiyan wrote:Haha this thread is still going? It's gotta be older than most webcomics now.

and oddly, more popular than most of those comics.

BoShek · Post by **BoShek** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:45 pm

More popular than mine.

...

~_~ (Not that I expect a three-week old comic with no humor and mediocre art to be very popular!)

(YET!)

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:41 am

BoShek wrote:~_~ (Not that I expect a three-week old comic with no humor and mediocre art to be very popular!)

I was about to click at your link, when I read this description of yours and it talked me out of it.

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:04 am

I think my hits went up when folks finished their college finals.

Thats the only logical explanation, anyway.

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