Ok, one more day gone by, and here are some more stats.
Soo, $1.74…. If that keeps up (if anything it will get higher), that’ll be 1.74*365 => $635 per year. That’s enough to pay for hosting.
Ok, I know I left you hanging on that last post so here is what’s going on.
Soo, as I said, I’ve been working on this new site. I’ve done a bit of brainstorming for a new site to create that is new and unthought of, and actually useful. So I decided to build a searchable, open graphic resource database for web-designers. I would hold icons, backgrounds (tiles, textures…) and banners. It would be ‘open’, as in so anyone can contribute to the database.
I know your probably thinking, “This is not new, there are plenty on graphic resources on the web”. I say “yes, there are, but they’re not open, and they suck”. I’ve done a bit of researching and all the current ones have the crappiest, most unprofessional graphics that you could imagine. Also, my database is the first to be searchable.
So, first I set out to program this website. This took about a month (I don’t really remember actually…). I used php, as it’s cool, and for the layout I used one by Styleshout. I decided that it would be a good idea to have a database of graphics before I released the site, so I searched the web for icon packs with licences that allowed me to redistribute them. In total I found 1720 icons and a set of 11 backgrounds. I failed to find any logos, so I made a few of my own. While I was at it I also made a few backgrounds too. Then I released it on September 24.
What’s happened
During the first week of release the website got nearly zero traffic (wait, keep reading). Google had not spidered it until the end of that week, and it had nearly zero backlinks. I advertised it on a few forums, but that was pretty the only source of visitors. For the the entire first week, it got about 860 page views a day (and over a fourth of them were from me).
The next week, the first week of October, was slightly better. 650 page views per day for that week. This was less then last week in total, but after subracting the amount of page views that were actually from me fixing website bugs, it was actually a *bit* more.
Then, on the tenth (yesterday), things improved, allot. Apparently, this popular Japanese blog (Link, google translated version) actually blogged(!) about my new site. Yes, their blog is in Japanese, and my site is in English, but I guess their blog was meant for a multi-language people. Anyways, it must be a popular blog because they refered 532 people to my site in that one day! I then checked del.icio.us and found my site had been bookmarked 31 times that day. It went from 4 bookmarks to 31 bookmarks in one day. With such a high percent increase, it even got onto the del.icio.us “popular page”. That gave me another 131 visitors. By the end of the day I had 5592 page views. That’s a 860% increase from the week before! I also had two ad clicks (yay! 54 cents).
Although I do not have the statistics for today, by looking at the raw statistics stored on my dreamhost server I can see that I have already reached the amount of page hits for today that I had in total yesterday. And it’s only 1pm! It should increase still yet. I also checked del.icio.us and I’ve gotton still yet another 79 bookmarks. Also, I found yet another person blogged about my site, this time in Spanish (what’s up with that? Link, google translated).
That’s all the data I have now, but I’ll be sure to blog on this again, so stay tuned. This site should still grow much more as more people link to it.
L8ter.
Oh ya, also, if you want to check out this new site I’m talking about, it’s here
http://www.OpenWebGraphics.com
So I guess it’s time for me to turn the music up and start blogging. You know, music can actually inspire your writing. When I’m writing for school I usually turn on my playlist before I start. It really helps for the humor and usually makes me feel more confident in my writing.
But that’s not why I’m blogging today. I’m blogging for no reason at all. Haven’t you read the topic? It’s ‘Yeah…’. I’m just to cheap to think up a theme for this blog post. Who needs a theme anyways when you have loud music?
Getting into more serious stuff, I’ve found my old site through the Wayback Machine. Now that was the first site I had ever made, so yes, it’s ugly… Its theme is kiwis… Yeah, kiwis… Check it out here. Note, all the archives before 2006 are not mine. Someone else apparently had the domain before me. I think there must have been a book named The Kiwi Effect
Speaking of old websites, I’m actually working on a new one. This one is going to be more for money, and not just for fun. The money will be made in the form of ads. Google ads, actually. Not the annoying kind. I’d rather not give the url out now though, as I don’t want google (or other people, like you, no offense) to get a hold of it until it’s done. In fact I’m not even going to tell you what the site is all about as of yet (nyaa :p) .
An update on my last post: Yes, I have added into English. I’m taking the 9-10, a convenient time for me. They were actually like 5 other people trying to add too, but she was only able to let one add, and so she picked me based on the summeries we wrote previously. I guess she liked it.
Also I got a depit card! Yay! Time to wast my money!!
Jk
After attempting to register for English I find that it’s a spacial class that you can only register for if you’re taking this other class too (don’t remember what it was) So either I’ll have to try to late-add English or I won’t take it.
I’ve just finished looking through webadvisor’s class database and I believe I have found my classes for this fall. What I’m taking:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday:
Economics 220 at 8:00am to 9:00, then math 191 (pre-calc) directly after until 10:00.
Tuesday/Thursday:
Math 191 (pre-calc) at 9:00am to 10, an hour break for homework (or whatever I fell like), then English 118 from 11:00 to 12:15.
So two weekdays a week I’ll get to sleep a bit extra, meaning I can party all night three days a week. David actually has economics at the same time same days as me, but a different level. I’ll be able to send him Morse code by banging on the walls during class. The hour break two days a week will be spent either hanging out or doing my math homework. I’ll never have to buy lunch at school which it nice (I’ve never had actually).
My date to sign up is actually tomorrow, 6:00am. Guess what time i’m getting up tomorrow? 6:00am you guessed it. Hopefully the server won’t be overloaded (I’m signing up online).
Yes it should be a good semester. I won’t have to buy any books as we already have them. According to Reviewum all my classes should have good teachers too.
I just found the most friggin’ awesome WP template ever! I’m keeping this one.