Daily Cartoonist at 2 Years; Status Report
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Today marks The Daily Cartoonist’s 2nd years of operation. Last year’s announcement of it’s first “birthday” was all of two sentences. This year, I thought I’d take a moment and report on the blog’s status, kind of a “state of the blog” type report.
On October 2, 2005, I signed up for a blogger.com account (called the Print Cartoonists News) and posted my first story. I quickly decided that I’d rather have my own domain and I posted my first Daily Cartoonist story on October 5th. Since then I’ve posted 2,355 stories. Not quite as many as some bloggers that I know.
Perhaps just as important as the news is, at least to me, is the conversation that takes place based on that news. I’m happy to report that you all have posted over 4,316 comments. It took awhile for the comments to start coming in, but they increase in number every month. Keep it coming.
Traffic growth has been pretty constant. I saw a plateau of sorts this year in the last spring, early summer, but most months the blog continues to bring in more visitors. Site traffic, measured by pageviews and unique visitors, has basically tripled (168% and 163% respectively) in this second year. Not bad, but I think it could be better. You’ll see some changes this last quarter to spur more traffic.
Here are three top ten stats over the last 2 years:
Top 10 most viewed blog posts
Top 10 most commented blog posts of all time:
(1) News of the Diesel Sweeties launch was spread across three stories which if comments are combined total 130 comments.
(2) There are two blog posts that have become what I dub as the “Lio Groupy Pages.” Together they total 101 comments (and still climbing).
(3) When you add up all the Funky Winkerbean/cancer posts (there’s about a dozen of them) there are a total of 228 comments making this the most talked about feature this year.
The top 10 commentators (excluding me):
| Commentator | # of comments | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich Diesslin | 197 |
| 2 | Charles Brubaker | 173 |
| 3 | Rick Stromoski | 118 |
| 4 | Garey Mckee | 100 |
| 5 | Eric Burke | 76 |
| 6 | Dawn Douglass | 76 |
| 7 | “Rob”, “Robert”, “Rick”, “The Other Robert” (for goodness sakes man, just use your first and last name :)) |
75 |
| 8 | Jeff Stanson | 72 |
| 9 | Danny Burleson | 69 |
| 10 | Norm Feuti | 68 |
In closing, thanks to all of you who continue to visit and participate on this blog. Thanks to those who have sent me kindly worded e-mails of thanks and encouragement. It’s been a pleasure to be a part of this community.
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