So, I have had pretty consistent website traffic since the sites inception in early 2008. Through all the updates, changes, broken features, people did not seem to care much and visited just the same. However, in the last two weeks I have found that my traffic has dwindled to nearly nothing. I mean literally, in two weeks I have had four visitors, and they were all on the same day. So, one of two things is happening here:
A: My methods for monitoring traffic have become corrupted and are no longer logging and storing traffic data correctly.
B: People really are just not visiting the website anymore. This could be due to a general lack of new content, a less than entertaining design and interface, and no tabloid-esque, American Idol, flashy lights drama on the index page.
My query is this, I would like those of you that visit, to simply shoot me an email, or take the time to leave a comment that is simply a number, a letter, or whatever it is you would like to leave as a way to signal to me that you visited the site, as I have a problem with the fact that the site has gone from 5-60 visits per day in the last two years, to literally ZERO in the last two weeks, aside, of course, from the six visits on January 31st, and the one, lonely visit on February 5th…
Thank you all for taking just a moment of your time to help me better the functionality of this website. If you could all contribute to this place it would be a much better website for all of us to tinker on.
~Jacob
I was here and will continue to return, I usually come here with friends too but usually only visit when I see you have added new pics, stories, notes etc. I love to see your pics!
Comment by amanda — February 6, 2010 @ 5:07 am
Thank you Mandy, I appreciate you taking a moment to leave a note. I also appreciate your comments about my photos, it is nice to hear that people like to see them, as well as reading my stories, which I am not sure if I want to add more of or not. I realized just how personal that was, and it left me a little uncomfortable in some spots. It was late though and I was tired, and kind of out of it.. hehe.
Comment by Jacob Crosby — February 6, 2010 @ 10:03 am
I just visited it this week when it was broken-ugly. I think your web stats must have been broken too.
Comment by Andrew — February 6, 2010 @ 10:49 am
Im still reading!
Comment by Kathryn — February 11, 2010 @ 7:12 pm
i visit often to look at the old and the new although we are locking in the new area…waiting to see and read about new things and stories..
Comment by lisha — February 25, 2010 @ 1:22 pm