So... Where Do We Go?
Added 2019-04-09 00:25:56 +0000 UTCIn the last monthly review post I mentioned a decline in viewership. That was further evidenced by today's episode, "Family Sport" receiving a new one day low. Now some of this may be burnout from my end, or burnout from others. It might be Tumblr's decline as well. I shouldn't look so deep into stats, but I do...
So this graph shows you our statistical level on the global level based of Alexa statistics. We peaked at the end of January 2019, then I took my week off, and we have steadily declined since then. We are now at the point we were at at the end of 2017 and slightly below. Internationally, we are roughly in the 520,000th ranked site in the world in terms of traffic. Some of our decline may be attributed to Tumblr's continued traffic decline. It has fallen from a top 20 spot to now falling below the top 50.
Not only that, but our daily notes are steadily declining as well. Last year we averaged about 140 notes in a release day. We now average about 90 notes in a release day.
So I come to you. What would you do? I've been told by some of you other places to branch out, but now lets really discuss this. Is a solution to end the series on a high note? Am I making too big a deal about a 100k drop in traffic? Is this tied with MLP:FiM's offseason?
I also thought maybe the high point was an irregularity or our peak and we are simply going back to an area that we were at prior to 2018. The old normal... but we'll see if we continue to drop.
I would like to use the trusty and clunky old Deviant Art for more content. I am not aware of other places people post comics and are allowed access to statistics and data. I have considered owning my own website to run the series, but I know viewership would tank as very few would actually move over to read it. Thoughts. Discussion.
Comments
Exactly right. It's traffic continues to stay strong and is actually rising slowly. It's old reliable.
2019-04-10 22:33:22 +0000 UTCBut here's the thing, the graph shows Adorkable's numbers kept going up well beyond Tumblr's Exodus in December. Our peak was February 2019! Twitter's lack of statistics and organization bugs me. I wish someone had made a Reddit for the series as I don't want to be the dude who makes my own, lol. I am thankful EQD does post the comic pretty much every time. It helps certainly.
2019-04-10 22:32:24 +0000 UTCSomeday.... someday. ;-)
2019-04-10 22:30:19 +0000 UTCSee I would think the opposite. With the new season starting, I would expect ratings to go up. But I do agree with you, I am worrying too much. ;-) I wish I could keep track of stats on other sources people see the comic from.
2019-04-10 22:30:06 +0000 UTCDeviant Art will happen. I just... UGH... have to upload like 200 old comics to catch it up. I wish there was a more efficient way to upload on Deviant Art.
2019-04-10 22:29:01 +0000 UTCMy assumption is also that the declining traffic and notes result from the tumblr exodus after December 17th, 2018. I like DeviantArt and follow (watch) lots of artists there. In my experience Twitter provides the most interaction between artist and audience but it's shite with regards to organisation/filing/tagging/gallery. Your comics are consistently linked in the EQD fan comic entries so that shouldn't be a limiting factor. Maybe some collabs are in order to boost? :)
Horatio Pitt
2019-04-10 19:17:10 +0000 UTC"Alexa, show me something adorkable"
kallenin
2019-04-09 13:11:07 +0000 UTCI think your worrying to much, with the new season starting and just stupidity from tumbler you will see lower numbers. Something to consider I believe a lot of people read your comic when it's posted on derpibooru or here on patron. That can be skewing the numbers.
The Fish
2019-04-09 13:09:16 +0000 UTCI don't have a Twitter either and I know many don't either. It seems so much more impersonal.
2019-04-09 00:48:30 +0000 UTCI dunno. After Tumblr crapped itself, lotsa artists moved to Twitter. I don't have a Twitter tho, but don't need an account to view images.
Gray
2019-04-09 00:47:08 +0000 UTC
