Did you guys notice that Google analytics said we got 1700 "visits" to the journal on Tuesday Mar 25, really our first full day issue 2 was out? Assuming Google really does mean "unique visitors" (as far as it can tell), that's pretty good for the second issue of a new journal!
Of course, many people that visit the ToC don't read the articles--at least not that same day, but I guess people will read the ones they are interested in, as they have time.
The past few days had 400 and 500 hits a day, so people are looking. Hooray.
Jonathan
-- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
PS: I kind of wonder why issue 2 is getting so much more traffic than issue 1 ever did, but, hey, I guess it takes some time for people to hear about it, for issue 2 isn't so bad. Issue one around 100 visitors a day, including the first week (when we publisized it widely). Issue 2, publisized LESS widely intentionally by us, has only gone below 300 on the weekend since publication.
The fact that we had a huge spike in traffic after issue 2 was published, which has remained far above the levels of pre-issue 2 publication, seems to be further justification for the release-as-an-issue release schedule. Many of those people must have heard about the journal some time after issue 1 was out, but before Mar 25 (especially because we didn't do much issue 2 marketting)--but if so, they didn't visit to look at issue 1, they visited only when issue 2 came out.
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Did you guys notice that Google analytics said we got 1700 "visits" to > the journal on Tuesday Mar 25, really our first full day issue 2 was > out? Assuming Google really does mean "unique visitors" (as far as it > can tell), that's pretty good for the second issue of a new journal!
> Of course, many people that visit the ToC don't read the articles--at > least not that same day, but I guess people will read the ones they are > interested in, as they have time.
> The past few days had 400 and 500 hits a day, so people are looking. > Hooray.
> Jonathan
-- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> PS: I kind of wonder why issue 2 is getting so much more traffic than > issue 1 ever did, but, hey, I guess it takes some time for people to > hear about it, for issue 2 isn't so bad. Issue one around 100 > visitors > a day, including the first week (when we publisized it widely). > Issue 2, > publisized LESS widely intentionally by us, has only gone below 300 on > the weekend since publication.
I'm not sure, but I think the traffic to the journal for Issue #2 was very similar to Issue #1, as illustrated by the attached PNG file. I changed the date ranges of graph and I think it is more interesting that nobody looks at the journal except when it is announced. People have short attention spans.
This is great. I often wonder how hits should count versus subscriptions for P&T. At my current job and judging what I have seen elsewhere the number of subscriptions counts for something in evaluating scholarship (not necessarily a large percentage, but it still counts). I think this is outdated, even in traditional print-focused journals. Even if it were a traditional journal, it may be in databases and downloaded often, At any rate, I think it is great that we are seeing a spike. I think, or at least hope, this will continue as we release additional issues.
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Did you guys notice that Google analytics said we got 1700 "visits" to the journal on Tuesday Mar 25, really our first full day issue 2 was out? Assuming Google really does mean "unique visitors" (as far as it can tell), that's pretty good for the second issue of a new journal!
Of course, many people that visit the ToC don't read the articles--at least not that same day, but I guess people will read the ones they are interested in, as they have time.
The past few days had 400 and 500 hits a day, so people are looking. Hooray.
Jonathan
-- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
I then realized there was a different link for "absolute unique visitors", which is probably what I actually wanted, but that one too shows the same traffic pattern (just about 10% less than "visits" that aren't "absolute unique").
Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>> PS: I kind of wonder why issue 2 is getting so much more traffic than >> issue 1 ever did, but, hey, I guess it takes some time for people to >> hear about it, for issue 2 isn't so bad. Issue one around 100 >> visitors >> a day, including the first week (when we publisized it widely). >> Issue 2, >> publisized LESS widely intentionally by us, has only gone below 300 on >> the weekend since publication.
> I'm not sure, but I think the traffic to the journal for Issue #2 was > very similar to Issue #1, as illustrated by the attached PNG file. I > changed the date ranges of graph and I think it is more interesting > that nobody looks at the journal except when it is announced. People > have short attention spans.
