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March Archived
1 April 2014
We published 67 articles in March, which is another record. Fifteen of those were features, another three were reviews. On the news front, we published 34 commented news stories plus 12 Horn pieces with 48 items. There were three other notes, as well, including our thank you to subscribers.
Despite the activity, our publishing system hasn't broken a sweat yet. It's such a pleasure to use, in fact, we get a little annoyed on slow news days.
And we're still publishing many news items well before other sites find out about them, despite our West Coast start time.
We do keep tweaking it, adding little features to make it easier to get from plain text to HTML or fooling around with the appearance, as we did with our slide shows.
One of the fun things about running your own circus is juggling whatever numbers intrigue you. Our readership here, for example, is a magnitude (or four) higher than anything we did before, which is certainly gratifying.
And we're still publishing many news items well before other sites find out about them, despite our West Coast start time.
This month we thought we'd tell you which articles were the most popular. Even though the month has ended, it's a little premature to draw conclusions because articles keep earning new readers months after they're published. And, of course, what we published yesterday doesn't yet have the audience of something we published four weeks ago.
Here's what we found:
- Among news stories, the most popular were Nikon's battle with Sigma with a tie between the Getty's new policy for using its images and Mozilla's new JPEG encoder.
- Our most popular matinees (among the most popular stories on the site, too) were Eggleston and Weegee with Mary Ellen Mark not far behind.
- Our Air Strap review and inexpensive tripod makeover were our top review and feature. Our lens cases review has been moving up very fast, though, above our most popular news stories.
- Each slide show gained traction the longer it was up but our Bouquets to Art moved up quickly to the top spot.
- Readership is remarkably even in general. There isn't a big gap between the least read and most read after a week or so.
Hard to find any bad news in that. Particularly since some of the most popular articles are some of the longest ones. And nothing is very short, apart from the Horn pieces, which are designed to save you time more than generate word of mouth.
We have a few more reviews lined up for April (not to mention that features story on the Benson method of fine art printing we've been promising for months). So stay tuned and let us know how we're doing with the feedback button at the bottom of each story -- including this one.