Re: rise in site visits last week — why?

So far in the month of April, lifehacker leads the pack, followed by w3fools.com, helpx.adobe.com, status.modern.ie, caniuse.com, and w3.org. J

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From: Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com<mailto:amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 1:42 PM
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Subject: Re: rise in site visits last week — why?
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While I appreciate Doug's thumbs-up, I don't think I can take credit for 3000 page views!

My first guess for a sudden bump was a change in Google's search algorithm, but nothing major has been announced lately.  Julee's suggestion of new external links seems more likely: any breakdown in the stats based on referring domain?

--ABR


On 16 April 2014 13:37, Julee Burdekin <julee@adobe.com<mailto:julee@adobe.com>> wrote:
Ha! Maybe. Also, looks like some new folks are starting to link to us, such as lifehacker.com<http://lifehacker.com>. J

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From: Doug May <intuedge@gmail.com<mailto:intuedge@gmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 10:36 AM
To: Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com<mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>>
Cc: WebPlatform Public List <public-webplatform@w3.org<mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: rise in site visits last week — why?
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Resent-Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 10:36 AM

Amelia (positive engagement); post-Fluent non-attendee survey (guilt/refreshed awareness).

DougM


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com<mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>> wrote:
I've been looking at the stats for WPD today, and there was a nice rise in the total number of visits last week. http://monosnap.com/image/KQKmYJ4CtZVAppDmG63SSJQfhEQmcM.png


The total visits have been hovering around 18k (give or take 1k) for the last six months (except over the holidays), and then last week's total was 21,500.

Anyone know what happened?

Jen


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