Reader Stats

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:05 pm

Legendary, I hope that 7000 visits was total and not daily, 'cause otherwise... Damn.

How does one do link exchanges? I'd love to get in on that if it means raising my readership.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:28 pm

Generally, you just send someone an e-mail and beg them to link you in exchange for a link back. Slightly subtler ways of getting linkage - like silently linking someone and hoping for reciprocation, or sending them fanart, or even sending fan-mail - are preferred in most cases.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:34 pm

Mercury Hat wrote:
cortland wrote:Now watch as the thread becomes one big whip-it-out fest.
I will personally kill each and every person who does so after this post. No one cares and generally the people who really DO get good numbers, I've found, never post them.

That's a real shame, because I have some real questions about hits and reader numbers. But I'll for sure never ask them now.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:41 pm

I think Merc was referring to posters who just compare pageviews and brag/moan without adding anything constructive to the conversation. If you actually have something relevant to discuss and aren't just looking to be snarky and pick a fight with an admin, I'm sure no one would mind if you brought it up.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:54 pm

If you can't understand the difference between these two posts:

"I get X pages, Y hits, and use Z KB a month, should I look into my own hosting?"

--and--

"I've got X pages and Y hits so far this month!"

--then I can't help you.

But whatever, keep misreading my posts and ignoring context.

Oh wait, I almost forgot the

.

Post by **Kisai** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:02 pm

Mercury Hat wrote:If you can't understand the difference between these two posts:

"I get X pages, Y hits, and use Z KB a month, should I look into my own hosting?"

--and--

"I've got X pages and Y hits so far this month!"

--then I can't help you.

But whatever, keep misreading my posts and ignoring context.

Oh wait, I almost forgot the :P.

here, I'll shoot everyones inflated ego right here and now.
http://www.comicgenesis.com/wrank.php?limit=50
If you aren't on this list, you aren't making a dent, change the limit to see where you are on it. Red means going down, green means going up.
I made this specificly to beat wikipedia editors over the head with, but whatever, it gives everyone a relative standing, suffice it to say, if you are not on the top 50, it's a very steep slope to climb. This list runs similiar to page 1 and 2 of the TOP_PL section of the guide

More to the point. If you are a new comic, like, just started... in the last year, you have to get wangage from penny arcade before you hit the top, or you have to be "featured" on a heavily trafficed site.

Also, the stats are not 100% correct. It tends to collect garbage when a site is moves off CG or is deleted, the stats are left in the system for like a month.

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:09 pm

Kisai wrote: http://www.comicgenesis.com/wrank.php?limit=50

Eee, I see Angry D Money, Reckless Youth and Cortland

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:30 pm

I recommend Google Analytics for stats. I use it, and its really damn helpful with tracking multiple sites, and its completely and utterly invisible to the user (no button to deal with)

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:51 pm

Kisai wrote:here, I'll shoot everyones inflated ego right here and now.
http://www.comicgenesis.com/wrank.php?limit=50

Doesn't really work that way with me: whenever I see one of these comparative lists my reaction is "this thing has got to be wrong, my comic can't be nearly that popular."

Either I've been underestimating my own readership or overestimating other people's.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:59 pm

Google Analytics is the bees knees. It doesn't interfere with your site at all (no little icon anywhere), it reports on every webpage within the site that you want and it even happily lets you watch over multiple sites all for free.

Gives you a bit too much information, mind, but once you find the bits you're actually interested in,* you can go straight to them.

- Joel Fagin

* Referring source mostly.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:36 pm

"Grumpy the fat hamster" seems to be significantly less popular than I anticipated.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:48 pm

Komiyan wrote:
Kisai wrote: http://www.comicgenesis.com/wrank.php?limit=50
Eee, I see Angry D Money, Reckless Youth and Cortland

Angry D "Money" is up there cause of a certain Darken comic.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:59 pm

Komiyan wrote:
Mercury Hat wrote:
cortland wrote:Now watch as the thread becomes one big whip-it-out fest.
I will personally kill each and every person who does so after this post. No one cares and generally the people who really DO get good numbers, I've found, never post them.

The question was asked, the question was answered, move on.
But I want to brag about my power level being one million!

and! You may have a power level of one million but mine is two million!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

The Mortician · Post by **The Mortician** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:44 pm

here, I'll shoot everyones inflated ego right here and now.

I was surprised I'm even in the top 1000.
It makes for a nice little ego boost.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:07 am

Hey, RC is #188. That's cool... I figured I'd be in the low 400's.

Lookit Legostar at #7!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:06 am

Hey, it was supposed to deflate your ego, not inflate it!

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:11 am

Kisai apparently overestimated our ego inflation.

Mo · Post by Mo » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:24 am

Now I feel all insignificant and worthless, I think I'll go whine about it in my livejournal a bit.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:23 am

Mercury Hat wrote:But whatever, keep misreading my posts and ignoring context.
Oh wait, I almost forgot the .

You're very hard to read, and the 'Admin' tag under your name gives your crankiness a lethal quality. No smilie there -- you scare people, and you enjoy it, and I don't think that's a good thing.

But anyway. I do have a question about visitors.

Let's say I get an average of X unique visitors per day (I'll avoid using real numbers). But I only update twice a week. Seems to me that my true visitor number is X*(number of days in the month)/(number of updates per month), or about X*30/8, in my case -- almost a factor of 4.

So 'visitors' may not reflect your actual number of readers. *If* I understand things correctly. But I'm not sure I do.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:24 am

RemusShepherd wrote:
Mercury Hat wrote:But whatever, keep misreading my posts and ignoring context.
Oh wait, I almost forgot the .
You're very hard to read, and the 'Admin' tag under your name gives your crankiness a lethal quality. No smilie there -- you scare people, and you enjoy it, and I don't think that's a good thing.

Great assumption there.

I don't understand what is wrong with you people. It's not hard to understand, and stop acting like if you disagree with her that she's gonna drop a ban hammer on you. Look back and tell me how many times people have been banned for having a differing opinion then Merc. Just because she's an admin doesn't mean she has to sugarcoat every single thing she says.