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

Humbug · Post by **Humbug** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:51 pm

Aww, thanks. *Feels all fuzzy inside*

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:17 pm

I'm surprised at those numbers too. Surprised they aren't double or triple that.

Humbug · Post by **Humbug** » Mon May 21, 2007 5:05 pm

I never even broke the 1000 readers, I had a spike when I was linked by Talismen, but the highest I got was 900 readers, then it pretty much settled back to normal a week or two later, give or take. It's a mystery, yup.

JTigerclaw · Post by **JTigerclaw** » Mon May 21, 2007 6:15 pm

Killbert-Robby wrote:
JTigerclaw wrote:
jekkal wrote:Naked - We can find a way . . .
There's always a way.
Oh yeah, you're one to ta-... oh went back in your archives, fine, there's SOME nudity.

Yeah, I back my talk up occasionally.

Backing it up with nudity is just a plus.

Tyras wrote:Nothing brings your readers in faster than implied pedophilia relations.
Just saying.

I hit my one-year anniversary in a month or two and I get about 700 hits on updated days.
Or visits. Or views. Whatever the important one is.

O,O

You get more hits than me! Much more!

I will end you! ::shakes fist::

Sphix · Post by **Sphix** » Fri May 25, 2007 4:27 am

JTigerclaw wrote: You get more hits than me! Much more!

I will end you! ::shakes fist::

LET THE ENDING BEGIN! ^_^

I'm sitting steady at 27 visits/day, after a month's worth of updates... We'll just see how long I'm down this low.

Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Fri May 25, 2007 4:44 am

I've been around long enough to have had some significant ups and downs... Currently at 1200-1500 a day depending on forum exposure mostly, up from 800 in February (which was up from 600 in October 2005, but down from 1000/day in 2002).

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:10 am

Argh... I was pushing 160 visits a day until the outage and all those zeros put the hurtlock on my stats. Now I'm sitting in at around 77 per day.

Not that it means anything... or something.

Liddell · Post by **Liddell** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:14 pm

I just checked my stats, and I average only two visits per day, one of them usually from me (to make sure the comic loaded properly).

This, despite the fact that I update often (several comics due to come out this week) and my art is getting prettier and prettier. I think I need to find more things to say in the forums.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun May 27, 2007 6:11 pm

Humbug wrote:Aww, thanks. *Feels all fuzzy inside*

In the stomach?

VinnieD · Post by **VinnieD** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:15 pm

My stats took a hurting with the downtime and the non updating. i dropped from 190 visits a day to 80.

That's half my readership.

Hope it goes back up next month.

The Mortician · Post by **The Mortician** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:25 pm

VinnieD wrote:That's half my readership.
Hope it goes back up next month.

Similar here as well.

I was updating Non-canon stuff but it wasn't on the front page.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:48 pm

Keep in mind that all the server strife we've been having has caused the stats to skip some days and yield artificially low numbers on others; that's gonna screw with your averages. The numbers are fibbing.

Humbug · Post by **Humbug** » Mon May 28, 2007 3:20 am

mcDuffies wrote:
Humbug wrote:Aww, thanks. *Feels all fuzzy inside*
In the stomach?

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Mon May 28, 2007 3:33 am

I knew there was a reason I stayed away from this thread back when it first started up...

I get excited when I make 100 readers a day every few weeks or so... bit sad really that my biggest source of hits the last months has been from a joint called 'youbore.us.com' .

I'm gonna go slink away again.

Ataraxia · Post by **Ataraxia** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:21 am

Dutch! wrote:I knew there was a reason I stayed away from this thread back when it first started up...

I get excited when I make 100 readers a day every few weeks or so... bit sad really that my biggest source of hits the last months has been from a joint called 'youbore.us.com' .

I'm gonna go slink away again.

The numbers aren't the be-all and end-all of how well a comic is doing. You get that many hits per day, but I'm willing to bet you get a lot more feedback and interaction with your readership than certain comics which get way more hits than you do. Somebody earlier in this thread said that obsessing over the numbers is the surest way to drain the joy out of webcomicing... the trouble is, stat-peering is so addictive!

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:39 am

Nah, to be honest I look more at longevity. They're the numbers I'm more interested in, and to me that makes the strip successful, not whether thousands of people read it each month. Like most of us here, I believe, I've got a strip I'm doing purely for the characters within in it, and maybe then for the people who like them too.

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:06 am

Funny thing is that I'm pretty sure at least 1/3 of my visits come from myself... I really wish there was a way the counter ignored my own visits

Tarts · Post by **Tarts** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:31 am

Fabio Ciccone wrote:Funny thing is that I'm pretty sure at least 1/3 of my visits come from myself... I really wish there was a way the counter ignored my own visits

Use Sitemeter... well, if you're not one of those people who periodically clean out their cookies, their self-blocker should work fine.

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:34 am

Tarts wrote:
Fabio Ciccone wrote:Funny thing is that I'm pretty sure at least 1/3 of my visits come from myself... I really wish there was a way the counter ignored my own visits
Use Sitemeter... well, if you're not one of those people who periodically clean out their cookies, their self-blocker should work fine.

Yeah, guess I'll have to do that... I have it on my Portuguese site... but I was kinda lazy to create a new account to my CG

Catman1dotcom · Post by **Catman1dotcom** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:35 pm

Fabio Ciccone wrote:Funny thing is that I'm pretty sure at least 1/3 of my visits come from myself... I really wish there was a way the counter ignored my own visits

My counter shows 3,951 hits since Nov 1, 2006.

(3,950 are from me)

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