Daily Archives: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Anime Blog Traffic

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 – 4:28 pm

Here a a graph of my blog traffic since my anime blog began (minus the one day in February 2006 that it existed and minus the current month):

Anime Blog Traffic Graph

You’ll notice a rather steady increase of traffic - which is good. The large jump in January 2007 is rather a mystery. I had a significantly large jump in traffic on the 14th and 15th of the month, were those two days made up around a third of the total visits for the month. Without those two days, January would fit in pretty nicely with the steady increase in traffic.

I’m not sure what caused this. This is well after the announcement of Haruhi being licensed in December (my post on the counter glitch, revealing the licensor did get linked by some people) and was before I found out my comments were broken on the old blogging software I was using then (so it wasn’t caused my my host and I repeatedly hitting the website trying to get it to work). Podcast Episode 7 was posted on the 13th, but I don’t see why a single podcast would make the visits jump that much.

In any case, taking into consideration this strangeness, and the fact that February was a short month, I’ve made steady progress, except for taking a big dip from May to June (possibly for not posting all that much during that period). After the June dip, I hit 500 “unique” visitors again in November, hit 1000 in January, and last month saw the most yet at over 1200. I’m on pace so far in April to beat March out for the most unique visitors.

For comparison, I’ve gotten about as much traffic 11 days into April as I did the entire month of October (I have more unique visitors but fewer visits). I already have more total visits this year as I did in all of 2006. (I also have more unique visitors, but since those are bounded by month, an annual count of unique visitors isn’t fully accurate).

By Josh | Posted in Web Stats | Comments (0)

New Section: What I want to See

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 – 12:00 pm

I’m trying to fill up places in the week with new sections in this blog, and one of the ideas I came up with is a section called “What I want to see.” This is just an anime or manga that I haven’t seen or read yet that I am interested in, and why I’m interested in it.

The inaugural post in this section is for: Shakugan no Shana.

Shakugan no ShanaOne of the good things about doing an anime blog, especially the new releases part, is that I get to see what is coming out on DVD, and since I usually look up the information about the anime on ANN, I often see what type of scores it is getting on there.

Shakugan no Shana is one I noticed immediately. It’s unusual to see a series just being released in the United States which has several hundred ratings on ANN, and most of them good as well (all the mean scores are in the “Very Good” range).

The description on ANN also seemed interesting, with the first line to pull you right in: “Sakai Yuuji, a high school student who expected his normal life to last forever, is dead.” The art of the series also appears to be rather appealing.

Whenever I get this positive of a feeling about a series just reading around about it, it typically turns out to be a series that I end up really enjoying. As a result, this series is floating towards the top of my viewing queue.

By Josh | Posted in Shakugan no Shana, What I Want to See | Comments (0)