Website stats and outlook for 2013
Here is a chart showing the visitors per day on Sandra and Woo and Gaia:
The number of visitors is probably the most important measure of success for a webcomic creator. So I’m very glad that the number of readers of Sandra and Woo is still increasing. Especially Software Engineering, Now With Cats! has quickly become one of our most popular comic strips, resulting in 39,000 visits on Monday, 19 November, and Thursday, 29 November.
Thanks to everybody who spreads the word about our comics and posts links to them on his Facebook page or website!
Next year will bring two important milestones for Sandra and Woo. In July or August we will publish our 500th strip which will be a particularly complex one. Its creation will take a lot of time so we might have to publish some guest art instead of new strips in preparation for it. Later, on 19 October 2013, Sandra and Woo will celebrate its 5th birthday. While we don’t plan to publish another special strip on that occasion, you can look forward to some other special features. The year will begin with a story arc that introduces Sandra’s alter ego Sandy South, private eye extraordinaire. A parody of the detective genre is just something I always wanted to do.
Do these stats reflect the RSS readers ?
I currently use google reader to follow both Gaia and Sandra&Woo, and I always wondered how the RSS queries were handled.
woah, the total integral is something like 24*20000 / 2 = 240000 visitors in 2 years
Galithil wrote:
No.
RSS feed subscribers:
Gaia: 3,400
Gaia auf Deutsch: 133
Sandra and Woo: 6,237
Sandra und Woo: 236
spocchio wrote:
That’s per day. The total number of visits for the English version of Sandra and Woo is 14,458,820 at the moment, and the number of page views is 66,134,298.
And Larisa is going to be the evil supervillain in the detective story? 😀
You guys totally deserve it. I can’t wait to see what next year brings!
I arrived at this webcomic by an advertisement. Before I actually did so, I always saw that one ad with those girls and their saber-toothed squirrel nonsense, and that kept turning me away. But then i saw an ad with a raccoon. my god. teenage kid + talking animal = gold.
Glad to see the statistic rose for S&W. Quite disheartening for Gaia though.
Question to Novil: Since S&W page views keep rising, do you have plan to give colours to S&W in the future? I’m fine with B&W but I bet it will help attract more readers when it’s coloured properly.
Also any plan for books? I think the book version need to be the coloured version.
Silly Novil, what do you mean “next year”? Don’t you know the world is going to end 12-21-12?
@ AckAckAck:
I don’t know how Novil read that initial drop in Gaia’s numbers, but they aren’t all that bad. Indeed they’re better than S&W’s first year numbers on account of piggybacking on S&W’s larger readership.
I’d read that as most S&W readers checked Gaia in Nov 11 and only half or so turned into regular readers. Then Gaia is flat around 7k/day during a period where S&W is either flat or declining. Both S&W and Gaia are showing growth as we come to the end of 2012 with Gaia breaking 9k/day in Nov 12.
Sandy South? Private eye? I can’t wait for this arc!
My favourite arcs in Calvin and Hobbes were always the “Tracer Bullet, Private Eye” strips, so if you guys can pull off a good detective story you have won the internet in my eyes.
AckAckAck wrote:
The first 18 pages of Gaia were published on 28 November 2011, so of course there was much interest in the last 3 days of November, inflating the number of visitors for that month.
AckAckAck wrote:
Coloring Sandra and Woo had no effect on the reader numbers. Coloring the ads for Sandra and Woo has a huge effect, though.
AckAckAck wrote:
No.
Long time no post, but I have continued to follow! As a Nero Wolfe fan, I can totally see Woo taking the Nero Wolfe position while Sandy does all the footwork (a la Archie Goodwin). Cloud and Larisa could be 2 of the “Trio” of go agents Wolfe hired from time to time, but who could fill that fourth spot…someone unexpected I’d bet. 😉
Keep up the great work!
I’m one of the folks who read through the whole archive in one go. I had never heard of the comic, saw an ad, clicked it, started reading, didn’t stop, and wanted more. i’ll probably go through it in German, as well, since I’m a bit out of practice, may be a good refresher for me.
Keep up the good work. This is easily one of my favorite comics.
I’m not surprised how Gaia started out really high, then fell a good amount: The advertising from Sandra and Woo brought people over, but only a certain number of them kept reading. I am, however, very surprised that after the initial fall and then slight rise, it fell AGAIN for four months. What happened in the month before that caused readers to STOP reading it? Was it that there was the attack, and Lilith was blamed, and people don’t like to see a main protaganist blamed for something? or was it something else? In anycase, it’s started going up again, which is good.
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