The “cost” of Starting Over…

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Just poking around to see if the current ~14% decrease is listening is systemic, just this web site or just time of year….    Here are the total counts by week for this year:

+------------+-------------+
| listendate | WeeklyCount |
+------------+-------------+
| 2011-01-03 | 52,704      |
| 2011-01-10 | 60,015      |
| 2011-01-17 | 56,026      |
| 2011-01-24 | 57,956      |
| 2011-01-31 | 59,137      |
| 2011-02-07 | 55,737      |
| 2011-02-14 | 55,682      |
| 2011-02-21 | 58,963      |
| 2011-02-28 | 57,114      |
| 2011-03-07 | 56,580      |
| 2011-03-14 | 52,583      |
| 2011-03-21 | 52,045      |
| 2011-03-28 | 50,825      |
| 2011-04-04 | 52,395      |
| 2011-04-11 | 40,197      |
| 2011-04-18 |  8,287      |
| 2011-04-25 |    874      |
| 2011-05-02 |  2,953      |
| 2011-05-09 |  5,329      |
| 2011-05-16 |  6,755      |
| 2011-05-23 |  9,986      |
| 2011-05-30 |  9,636      |
| 2011-06-06 | 11,781      |
| 2011-06-13 | 11,494      |
| 2011-06-20 | 11,521      |
| 2011-06-27 | 11,337      |
| 2011-07-04 | 10,496      |
| 2011-07-11 | 11,952      |
| 2011-07-18 | 11,705      |
| 2011-07-25 | 12,552      |
| 2011-08-01 | 12,517      |
| 2011-08-08 | 13,040      |
| 2011-08-15 | 12,086      |
| 2011-08-22 | 11,287      |
| 2011-08-29 | 11,314      |
| 2011-09-05 | 11,486      |
| 2011-09-12 | 12,028      |
| 2011-09-19 | 11,977      |
| 2011-09-26 | 12,231      |
| 2011-10-03 | 12,077      |
| 2011-10-10 | 12,087      |
| 2011-10-17 | 12,213      |
| 2011-10-24 | 11,578      |
| 2011-10-31 | 12,288      |
| 2011-11-07 | 12,732      |
| 2011-11-15 |  8,399      |
| 2011-11-21 |  8,833      |
| 2011-11-28 | 11,345      |
| 2011-12-05 | 10,032      |
| 2011-01-01 |  4,413      |
+------------+-------------+

So there you go.

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4 Responses to The “cost” of Starting Over…

  1. Art Stone says:
    December 10, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    When Fedora did its number of me, when I rebuilt the server it upgraded mySQL to v5.5, which is far ahead of what I had been using. In the rush to get things working, I didn’t correctly configure mySQL, resulting in sluggish performance. Google looks at page load times to decide which is the best site to put at the top of the list. I’ve corrected that, which should make the pages load a lot faster now.

    • TheChairman says:
      December 11, 2011 at 1:09 am

      Looks like a seasonal dip from Nov thru Dec, along with Google’s algorithm. Do your weekly stats from other years show a drop in traffic during the holidays?

      Not surprisingly, retail sites see an increase in web traffic at this time of year.

      • Art Stone says:
        December 11, 2011 at 2:20 am

        A substantial number of people use this web site at work. It’s also true that a lot of people are busy Thanksgiving week. Since that week is still in the “current” period (28 days), that’s part of the explantion.

        Here is the second half of last year:

        | 2010-06-07 | 64,028      |
| 2010-06-14 | 64,170      |
| 2010-06-21 | 62,305      |
| 2010-06-28 | 59,509      |
| 2010-07-05 | 53,706      |
| 2010-07-12 | 57,947      |
| 2010-07-19 | 62,843      |
| 2010-07-26 | 60,176      |
| 2010-08-02 | 59,274      |
| 2010-08-09 | 58,808      |
| 2010-08-16 | 59,916      |
| 2010-08-23 | 59,867      |
| 2010-08-30 | 61,850      |
| 2010-09-06 | 54,360      |
| 2010-09-13 | 63,039      |
| 2010-09-20 | 60,466      |
| 2010-09-27 | 60,076      |
| 2010-10-04 | 59,402      |
| 2010-10-11 | 57,317      |
| 2010-10-18 | 60,885      |
| 2010-10-25 | 60,772      |
| 2010-11-01 | 72,127      |
| 2010-11-08 | 60,995      |
| 2010-11-15 | 58,412      |
| 2010-11-22 | 41,925      |
| 2010-11-29 | 55,396      |
| 2010-12-06 | 56,002      |
| 2010-12-13 | 54,679      |
| 2010-12-20 | 38,854      |
| 2010-12-27 | 30,269      |
| 2010-01-01 | 10,270      |
+------------+-------------+

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