Friday, June 17, 2011

Controversy (and New Releases) is good.

Hmm... him the recent relaese of the DCC RPG Beta and the Grindhouse Edition of the LOTFP WFRPG sure boosted the number of pageviews this blog got for a few days. I typically get 40-160 page views a day and then all of a sudden blam 400-650 page-views a day for a week. A lot of the traffic was hitting old posts too with new posts getting fairly typical hit counts.

So I've got to assume controversy and new releases are good for blog traffic at large. I got a few new followers of this blog and I know I added on a couple of blogs I've failed to note in the past to those I follow myself. More voices and more eyes is a pretty good result from recent events if you ask me.


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  1. Simon ForsterJune 17, 2011 at 2:25 PM

    Does seem to have generated a wave of comments and views, doesn't it.

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  2. PontifexJune 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM

    You're welcome

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  3. PorkyJune 17, 2011 at 2:36 PM

    Bloggers beyond the OSR saw an increase too so the controversy may not be a reason. I like the idea it was nervous activity pre-blood moon.

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  4. christianJune 17, 2011 at 2:50 PM

    Maybe there'd be less controversy if you weren't such a notorious kicker of puppies.

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  5. PontifexJune 17, 2011 at 2:57 PM

    Those puppies deserved it, Christian

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  6. TenkarJune 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM

    Just as long as you aint kickin' kittens. Yep, doubled my traffic too.

    edit: word verification "catstab" - ack!

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  7. PiperJune 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM

    I find the idea of labeling the discussion around these two games as "controversial" rather humorous.

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  8. jgbrowningJune 17, 2011 at 3:18 PM

    I wish everyone would just shut up about it as my blog traffic is down because I'm not participating. :)

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  9. jgbrowningJune 17, 2011 at 3:19 PM

    Oh, and by the way, I don't just kick kittens, I kick Himalayan Snow Leopard kittens.... ;)

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  10. la ruca ceballosJune 17, 2011 at 3:21 PM

    I can't figure any of you people out.

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  11. AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 3:21 PM

    If anytihng I've had less traffic, but I haven't been mixing it up on those posts so much. In fact I usually I see a dip when there is alot of blah blah blah on a couple of blogs. Maybe this particular dustup is more widespread than some of the others have been, or pulled in more gawkers due to the "Something Awful" posts?

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  12. TalysmanJune 17, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    Yeah, I second what Porky said. I first noticed non-RPG bloggers reporting that their stats were about five times higher than typical right after the huge outage was fixed. I've noticed mine are five times higher than before for the last couple weeks... and when I compare the total page views for the past 24 hours to the total *of* the pageviews for the top ten pages, there's again a five-to-one discrepancy. So unless 400 pages on my blogger are getting viewed one time each so that they never make it to the top ten, something's screwy.

    I also use Google Analytics, which supposedly counts stats a little differently and will report slight discrepancies, but again there's a five-to-one discrepancy between Blogger stats and Analytics. The Analytics numbers are close to what my typical traffic was before the outage, so I trust them more.

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  13. JDJarvisJune 17, 2011 at 6:30 PM

    @Talysman, I can totally believe there is something funky going on with blogger stats. I have gotten 12 responses here and half my daily page-views on this post.

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