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

Fleakitten · Post by **Fleakitten** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:28 am

Popular meaning ,say, an average of 200-500 hits a day and returning fans.

834n · Post by **834n** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:47 am

Pretty sure hits aren't the best way to measure popularity. Sadly there is no real way to measure how many readers you actually have, but visits per day isn't too bad an estimation.

In any case, it didn't take me long to get 200-500 hits a day. After about a month or two of reliable updates and hanging around the forums PD was around that.

Took almost a year to get 500 visits a day.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:49 am

Nearly four years for me.

It depends on your comic though. Nonfiction comics will never be as popular as fiction comics.

Also depends on your art skills. Mine are minimal.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:03 am

I hit about 400 visits per day after five months or so. My visits haven't increased significantly since then. ;>_>

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:16 am

I've been going for a year and a half... still not popular by that definition.

I suspect how much you put into advertising has a lot to do with how quickly you rise.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:24 am

According to CG, my best day last month was 217 unique visitors, and my average was 167 unique visitors.

Not bad. I've been adding about 3-5 new visitors a month since April.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:25 am

It took us about a month to get to maybe 300 visits, and a little longer to get to 400-500. But we got a loooot of traffic from my previous webcomic, which did do very well. And we also did a lot of actual advertising.

The first comic I did...yeah, it took about a year to get to 500 visits. I'm not sure about hits- certainly a lot shorter, but I never paid them much attention since visits are better for tracking your stats.

Rcmonroe · Post by **Rcmonroe** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:39 am

My strip debuted on June 12. From that day through October 20, updating six days a week, the most unique visitors I ever got in a day was 199. I was averaging about 150 or so at that point.

On October 21 I had 457 unique visitors.
On October 22 I had 687.
On October 23 I had 987.
On October 24 I was on Keenspot (actually debuted in the wee hours of the 23rd) with all of it's hit-generating capabilities.

So what happened on October 21? A webcomic which was a lot more popular than mine had a link to me on its homepage.

And that's all it takes. After four months of less than 200 visitors a day, I was wondering what it took to be popular, and I had started to think that I didn't have whatever it takes.

What it takes is one popular cartoonist to like your strip.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:52 am

Black Sparrow wrote:I've been going for a year and a half... still not popular by that definition.

Ditto

Legendary · Post by **Legendary** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:14 am

If we're talking about Visits, I started averaging 500 near the end of October.

If we're going by Unique URLs, I've had 195 so far in January.

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:24 am

500 hits a day? Probably a long time ago for the first time . . . then not-so-long ago for the second time when I had to rebuild my readers' trust after a lengthy hiatus.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:58 am

I had over 300 unique visits a day the first week. I don't actually think that counts as popular.

Popular is like Ghastly. When he was updating, he was only updating once a week and is still getting about 6400 unique visits a day. Though if you want me to use a comic that is still updating as an example. how about Venus Envy? That is another comic that gets about 6400 unique visits a day.

500 a day is nice, but that's a long ways off from being popular.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:58 am

I get thousands of hits a day, but only 120-170 readers a day.

Still, that is a fantastic number for me, considering I know 3-5 of these visitors.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:01 am

Oops probably would've stayed in obscurity if I hadn't got a huge boost in traffic about nine months in. Went from about 100 visits a day to 300. I was cresting the 600 mark when I stopped updating regularly. Good times, good times.

Even with Dissent flying by on word of mouth, I think it's going to take a bit of effort to get back up to those numbers. Speaking of which, it starts the day after tomorrow!

*flees*

Kasaii · Post by **Kasaii** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:55 am

Yeah, I was at that many hits within a few months on word of mouth and occasional toplist joining.

Getting to 200 visits... *tries to remember* I think it took around eight months. I remember being depressed at six months because I had some vague idea that what I had wasn't good enough.

These days, I'm hovering around 275-300.

Laemkral · Post by **Laemkral** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:57 am

I've been at this as long as Sparrow with inferior artistic skill and inferior material. Suffice to say, I'm at an all time high of about 30 readers. Give or take.
To get any where close to the "suggested amount" I had to unintentionally whore myself out at Comic Con and get linked to by Starslip Crisis.

That was a magical day...

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:11 pm

After two and a half years, I'm getting around 80 a day from one tracker, and the other says anything from 100-160. I don't know which to believe, but both tell me it's not that popular.

No worries though. Their loss if they're not reading, eh?

Cheers.

Ti-Phil · Post by **Ti-Phil** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:15 pm

500 readers? O_o; I'll never have that many person coming per day. I know I get about 58 visits per day and that after doing the volet for more than 4 years.

But then again I didn't do much advertising so it was msotly word by mouth and such.

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:18 pm

By the standards of what I consider "popular", I never reached it.

Gildedtongue · Post by **Gildedtongue** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:45 pm

I'm not sure what exactly popularity can be considered. But, I'm going to call it "Getting so much fan-mail it takes me a few days to answer it all." since I'm still kinda like a little kid who loves getting mail.

The most amount of hits I've had was on October 16th... which was a day I just posted a comic saying "I'm really sick and I can't update."

It's all very strange. Maybe I need to nearly die to get popular. But I don't want popularity in exchange for my life.