Readership Growth: How much is good?

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:59 pm

Okay...a question concerning readership and stuff from the Webaliser thingies...(I know it should be a z in Webaliser, but I'm not American, so put up with it, eh?)

What would you consider a decent percentage growth in those stats over each month? Cos for September (fourth month of records) we got an across the board relative percentage of between 190% to 210%, with Unique visitors reaching nearly 225%.

Not that I'm expecting to repeat those figures for October, but, well, what's a good par to aim for?

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:10 pm

As far as what's actually good, its tough to say. Things can vary extremely depending on the individual comic and on the amount of work put into pimping it out.

Sometimes my readership will double from one month to the next, but not that often. Once you reach another point you won't see as much massive percentage increases since new readers will keep coming in at pretty much the same rate unless you get a lot of new links that month. I say if you see an increase it's good, an increase of above 50% is great.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:38 pm

When a comic has just started, it's growth can be over 100% monthly and it's ok. Also, when you start posting on some new forum or get linked by a popular comic, major growth is in order.
But out of such circumstances, I think one can be very happy with any consistent growth.
You have to account that during the summer readership flunks and in fall, it gets back.
I experienced that a year without any promotion whatsoever can damage your readership (not by much addmitedly, but when you think about it, a year without a progress is also a loss) so one should at least occationally pop a fanart or something similar.
Oh, yeah, another thing: thewebcomiclist.com has brought me a whole lot of readers, just as onlinecomics.com did back when they were still young and hip. Gotta account that too.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:42 pm

mcDuffies wrote:But out of such circumstances, I think one can be very happy with any consistent growth.

Quoted for truth. Any amount of going up is good, neh? RotD has been rising slowly but steadily over the past few months, and I'm quite happy with the results, myself.

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:21 pm

Hehe, I had a 25% increase and I'm over the moon about it, I think that your comic is doing great if you got so many more readers than last month.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:37 pm

Gianna you're shooting up faster than any of us

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:40 pm

I never have consistant growth. My stats are very erratic.

Mattgo210 · Post by **Mattgo210** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:55 pm

mcDuffies wrote: Oh, yeah, another thing: thewebcomiclist.com has brought me a whole lot of readers, just as onlinecomics.com did back when they were still young and hip. Gotta account that too.

Wow, really? I get a ton more hits from Onlinecomics.net than thewebcomiclist.com. Like to the point of like 2 or 3 times more....

Zhan_Dvega · Post by **Zhan_Dvega** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:34 pm

Any growth is good growth.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:49 pm

except for large pulsing things growing out of your head or spine, those are bad growths.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:53 pm

Bekka wrote:Hehe, I had a 25% increase and I'm over the moon about it, I think that your comic is doing great if you got so many more readers than last month.

I dunno how many of the buggers are hanging around, but yeah, the numbers were good.

You seem to be doing well enough yourself...I hear about the noob all over the place, so at least people are talking about you

CapitanG · Post by **CapitanG** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:03 pm

Terotrous wrote:I never have consistant growth. My stats are very erratic.

Is it bad that I read this as "My stats are very erotic?"

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:44 am

CapitanG wrote:
Terotrous wrote:I never have consistant growth. My stats are very erratic.
Is it bad that I read this as "My stats are very erotic?"

When I drew fanart for EOI, my stats jumped for about three times but only for that month, afther that, they returned to normal.
So I guess I might say that at that time, my stats were very erotic. To girls, at least.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:48 am

Grow.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:54 am

What the bloody hell was that all about, Yarp?

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:00 am

Growth.

Growth is good.

TheLoserHero · Post by **TheLoserHero** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:16 am

::weep:: I stopped growing at 5'3"!
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Turnsky · Post by **Turnsky** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:14 pm

the growth of one's fanbase is a good thing, but, it can have it's cons, and most of them are funny, rabid fans who like to speculate.. it's cool

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:34 am

YarpsDat wrote:Grow.

Is it wrong that I find this game really fascinating?

[AOD] · Post by **[AOD]** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:43 am

That's very odd that you all seem to be growing. My average unique visits per month has been remaining relatively stable, if not decreasing. Is this a bad sign? I've been producing daily, the quality is better than that of several months ago, and the site is nicer...

What am I doing wrong, if anything?

(What's really strange is that the greatest readership was during summer, whereas now it is declining, a trend opposite to that of most other comics)

?~AoD