TTAC has finally broken through the 600k unique visitors per month barrier again (606,569 as of today). Our page views are also looking healthy: 2,018,749 per month. And visitors are spending an average of 4:58 hereabouts. This is a most gratifying result– especially after the huge dip incurred during our most recent site instability issues (a.k.a. daily crashes). My thanks to the technical team for sorting that shit out, and, of course, to TTAC's ME and writers for slogging away through thick and thin. With a bit of luck and the wind in the right direction, we'll keep building from here. (We might even have a photo gallery before Christmas.) At the moment, we're still ironing-out a few kinks. Your patience is most appreciated. And it may be required again; the prospect of our switch to the new WordPress platform leaves me as nervous as a Gloucester teen during her first pregnancy test. High five! Anyway, we've had a nice, slow, steady growth of new registrations lately. So I want to welcome the newbies to TTAC. You couldn't have come at a better time (said the actress to the Bishop). It's gonna be a wild time in the industry for the forseable future. I'm honored to share it with you. Thanks.
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why would a Gluocester teen be nervous during a pregnancy test?? [given that they’re hoping for the + sign and all]…
RF, Speaking as a daily reader, I have to ask, is there a threshold, a magical number of pageviews that might lead you to move to a “show all” as the default for reading comments? I realize you want to up your number of impressions/ad views and theoretically then, your site income, but I doubt there is ANY correlation between the “I want to read all these comments” and the possibility of a click-through due to a “wow, I should click that ad!”
I’m not a WP maven, so I don’t know if it is possible to have a “show all comments” bit be attached to a user’s login credentials… but if it could I bet those of us TTAC addicts would really appreciate not having to jump through a couple of hoops (not to mention page reloads and more traffic from your server**) just to get all of our crack, er… read all the comments.. while still leaving the default, shorter, pages for your “casual readers”. best of both worlds, no?
–chuck
**I’m in the Internet Server biz in my day job, and I have seen the effect traffic can have for a website. It is both a blessing (popularity + ad revenue) and a curse (bandwidth costs and server stability.) While I understand your desire for the blessings, beware of bringing on the curse.
What chuckgoolsbee said times 2. The site has been slow and glitchy lately too, doing weird stuff. But I still keep coming back, so as long as the site doesn’t go down I’m not complaining, besides all the clicking for the comments keeps my finger from getting fat.
nervous as a Gloucester teen during her first pregnancy test
Wait, is that a South Jersey reference to the place we used to buy alcohol underage at?
chuckgoolsbee :
RF, Speaking as a daily reader, I have to ask, is there a threshold, a magical number of pageviews that might lead you to move to a “show all” as the default for reading comments?
I do believe there is, but we’re not there yet. We’d need to double site traffic. As you say, perhaps we could work out a technical solution to reward our regular readers with less GD hassle.
In fact, there are LOTS of things we could do to improve the commenting and viewing comments deal. But we are in that conundrum of which you speak. We need more page views and visitors to pay for technical support/programming. We need more technical support/programming to get more visitors.
The big Kahuna: switching to the new WP platform. First and foremost, I don’t want the site to crash (fun dayn moyl in gots oyern). We ALL struggled mightily with site stability, and for that I apologize. Still. But second, the new platform SHOULD open up some possibilities for some way cool WP plug-ins.
Suffice it to say, I have had epic battles in this area, and probably will do so again. Throughout it all, your patience and support has given me– and the rest of the TTAC team– strength to carry on. Thanks.
This site is definitely one of my favorite sites even if sometimes it doesn’t load the first time.
-Matt
If only I was about 13 years younger, I’d be hanging out in the halls of the Gloucester high school. I guess I could hang out there now, but someone might notice I’m not high school age. Oh well.
Either way, I still enjoy the site and its freeness even though it has the occasional problems. Maybe you should hire the Bobs to ‘fix the glitches’.