Website stats 2013
Sandra and Woo celebrated its 5th anniversary on 19 October 2013. That was not the only reason to celebrate for us, though, since October was also the best month for Sandra and Woo with respect to the number of visits per day (19,963) and page views per day (130,854). Gaia also saw the largest number of visits per day (9,682) so far. Click on the diagram for the full-size version of the image.
I’d like to thank everybody who spread the word about our comics! Putting a link to our webcomic website(s) on your Facebook page, Twitter stream, blog or website is an easy and extremely effective way to support us!
I wonder why the slight drop occured, followed by the huge leap in daily followers? What caused those two to happen?
@ Mage of Chaos:
September 2012 had a drop, but October and November had huge leaps. I wonder what caused them?
In 2010, the same sort of leap happened in November. Considering it’s about the same time of year, i’m guessing either large conventions, or an online tournament sort of thing. The two year gap suggests the latter, but i thought we had the tournament thing (I really forget what it is called) in may. But there isn’t a enormous rise like there is in 2010, which was a leap from 9,500~ viewers to 13,800~ viewers, and in 2012, which was a leap from 14,000 to 19,000.
Still, there were several months in which people simply stopped viewing. I don’t know if that is tied to something that the authors posted, or maybe wrote, or maybe if the people were all distracted by something else? Still, that’s 8 months worth of daily viewers going down, approximately the same time Gaia went up.
In 2013, the viewers are jumping up one month, falling down another, and by the end of October Sandra and Woo reached 20k~ daily views.
I love Sandra and Woo, though i have to admit, Gaia makes me much happier as a reader. I’m very proud that we have reached as high as we have in Sandra and Woo, and I’m more than pleased to see Gaia is also on the rise, even if by association.
@ Mage of Chaos:
Spikes and drops are mainly caused by the effectiveness of the advertising. Drops also happen when a story arc is considered “boring” by some readers. However, that’s hard for me to predict in advance. Controversial strips usually increase the number of daily readers. But of course they certainly also cost a handful of readers. But that’s hard to measure.
@ Novil:
😀 I thought advertising might have something to do with it. Still… we need more word of mouth!
Vielleicht sollte ich die deutsche Seite oefter besuchen…
This year there was also that week or two that Novil didn’t update S&W so that he could put them on that other site first. I think that was in September?
I’ve just looked at some comparison and the site just jumped upwards from about 20000 unique US users in November to 30000 in December. Then again, most US traffic is listed as coming from Washington DC – very odd…