Reviewing the statistics for WIPUP 27.06.10a.
I decided to delay the statistics-review post for WIPUP 27.06.10a because a recent update to the dashboard now shows view statistics on a daily basis instead of a weekly basis – the results were quite surprising:
As you can see WIPUP is clearly one of our most active projects, with quite a decent kudos:subscriptions:updates ratio compared to the others. However when looking at the activity, we notice something rather interesting – the increase in views is not a sustained increase. It’s a spike whenever there is an update. Looking at my personal WIPSpace we can attribute the initial spike up to almost 200 to the 27.06.10a release itself. The very next day, with no updates, views returned to a pathetic zero.
The even larger spike was quite an oddity. On the 1st of June, one of my less relevant posts (about cooking) was aggregated onto Planet Larry, which sort of explains it (despite a 1 day time lag occuring before the spike) – but further investigation shows that my update about buying the C++ Qt book received a uniqely larger amount of views. I conclude that where the Planet Larry aggregation helped spark some interest, another equally important factor to the spike was that planet readers decided to read what else was on the blog, which was a post which linked to the programming book update – which was obviously a lot more relevant. All the same, very interesting stuff.
An obvious reason behind the non-sustained views is that WIPUP is largly an unknown entity on the web. Hopefully with more updates (which will come!) I can change this behavior into a steady stream.
In relevant news, the upcoming beta of WIPUP is making rapid progress and should be quite a sweet release.
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