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Evil Jamie! wrote:Ryan has access to all the logs and is in charge of promoting the comic and stuff, so readership really isn't my concern.

I kinda like it like that.
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cortland wrote:I'm curious now, how much web traffic does a web comic need to be considered "popular?"

... or better still: potentially profitable?
Profitable is easy. As mentioned earlier in this thread, Randy of Something Positive said that the threshold was 4,000 visits per day for one type of ads. That might vary depending on the type of ads you run.

'Popular' is a different thing. Here are some numbers for big webcomics that I've pulled out of my ass. ;) (Actually, I've taken them from either rumors in this thread or from the sites' own advertising pages. Where they specified 'pageviews', I'm assuming an average of 4 pageviews per visitor, which is a figure given by one of the sites listed.) Consider all these numbers to be vague, rumored, estimates:

*Ctrl-Alt-Del: 250k/day
Penny Arcade: 200k/day
*VG Cats: 120k/day
PvP: 50k/day
Something Positive: 38k/day
Schlock Mercenary: 20k/day
Ghastly: 15k/day
Yirmumah: 9k/day
Evil, Inc: 5k/day

(*CAD and VG Cats numbers were taken from their shared advertiser's site. I don't believe them. Or rather, if they're right, then Penny Arcade's numbers are way wrong, IMHO.)

As a general rule of thumb, it looks to me that if you get into 4 digit visitor numbers, you're pretty popular. Somewhere between 4 and 5 digits is when you become profitable.
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VG cats I can believe. It's quality. But CAD? I don't.
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Dammit! We must have spiked up CAD's visits when we were making parody CAD comics! What have we done?!
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JTigerclaw wrote:Dammit! We must have spiked up CAD's visits when we were making parody CAD comics! What have we done?!
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I wonder if I would have more readers if I, like, updated*. Heh.




*More often than once in a blue moon, I mean.
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legostargalactica wrote:
JTigerclaw wrote:Dammit! We must have spiked up CAD's visits when we were making parody CAD comics! What have we done?!
every silver lining has a grey cloud.
Quick! Don't make any parody Garfield comics!
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Warren wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
JTigerclaw wrote:Dammit! We must have spiked up CAD's visits when we were making parody CAD comics! What have we done?!
every silver lining has a grey cloud.
Quick! Don't make any parody Garfield comics!
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Make parody of my comic instead!
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RemusShepherd wrote:
cortland wrote:I'm curious now, how much web traffic does a web comic need to be considered "popular?"

... or better still: potentially profitable?
Profitable is easy. As mentioned earlier in this thread, Randy of Something Positive said that the threshold was 4,000 visits per day for one type of ads. That might vary depending on the type of ads you run.

'Popular' is a different thing. Here are some numbers for big webcomics that I've pulled out of my ass. ;) (Actually, I've taken them from either rumors in this thread or from the sites' own advertising pages. Where they specified 'pageviews', I'm assuming an average of 4 pageviews per visitor, which is a figure given by one of the sites listed.) Consider all these numbers to be vague, rumored, estimates:

*Ctrl-Alt-Del: 250k/day
Penny Arcade: 200k/day
*VG Cats: 120k/day
PvP: 50k/day
Something Positive: 38k/day
Schlock Mercenary: 20k/day
Ghastly: 15k/day
Yirmumah: 9k/day
Evil, Inc: 5k/day

(*CAD and VG Cats numbers were taken from their shared advertiser's site. I don't believe them. Or rather, if they're right, then Penny Arcade's numbers are way wrong, IMHO.)

As a general rule of thumb, it looks to me that if you get into 4 digit visitor numbers, you're pretty popular. Somewhere between 4 and 5 digits is when you become profitable.
CAD's is supposed to be 200k+, PA's is supposed to be upwards of a million. But yes, CAD is supposed to be no. 2.

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*Ctrl-Alt-Del: 250k/day
Penny Arcade: 200k/day
*VG Cats: 120k/day
PvP: 50k/day
Something Positive: 38k/day
Schlock Mercenary: 20k/day
Ghastly: 15k/day
Yirmumah: 9k/day
Evil, Inc: 5k/day
Penny Arcade and PVP are both doing much better than that. Heh, and I hope CAD isn't doing that well, but it's probably doing even better too.
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mcDuffies wrote:Make parody of my comic instead!
Dammit, you stole my idea and then traveled into the past and used it!
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rkolter wrote:
Whohoo, I control Evil Jamie's LOGS!!!

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Kat North wrote:On average 11 visitors a day. Sigh.
You know, I could increase your readership by over ten percent at a stroke.

For a price, that is.

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Is the price... your immortal soul?
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Warren wrote:Is the price... your immortal soul?
Don't be silly. She hasn't got my immortal soul.

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Joel Fagin wrote:You know, I could increase your readership by over ten percent at a stroke.

For a price, that is.

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I want to make a joke about this, but I'm afraid I'll have too much collateral damage, so...pass.
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Noise Monkey wrote:I want to make a joke about this, but I'm afraid I'll have too much collateral damage, so...pass.
Zen comedy.

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There ARE no laughs.
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But do you hear crickets?
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