Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] 1/4 million views (so what?)
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:55:56 +1000
References: <53B1BE97.3060604@threshinc.com> <CAFfkXxvjxxS1bY_wMAPTiR=kaOFVJVatKDzCNinUV+CxXz9qyQ@mail.gmail.com>

Sonny I don't know anything about your webalyser but I can say with
confidence that I am not personally adding tens of thousands of clicks to
boost my PBase stats! Doesn't trouble me in any case and of course, it
isn't a contest. No income generated for me.

PBase will show you a daily aggregate, most viewed plus gallery and
individual image breakdowns for any date.

It is extremely obvious what styles of images attract the most views and of
course a more people look they tend to look next time as well. A critical
mass has developed perhaps ;-)
Remember that my primary work is with models currently (from portraiture
through fashion/glamour and up to art nude styles). As well as the
membership numbers and participation, you can understand that the subject
matter massively changes the interest levels. People like to look at
attractive women. It is a very long standing societal truth.
For whatever it is worth if I put say ten BW images in a gallery with
colour work views of the colour images  far exceed anything in BW however
much I might like what I've done in BW (and I use BW when I think it is
better for the content, not just for variety).


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 3 July 2014 07:24, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I enjoy having Webalizer analytics that show these views on my own site:
>
>  [Daily Statistics] [Hourly Statistics] [URLs] [Entry] [Exit] [Sites]
> [Referrers] [Search] [Users] [Agents] [Countries]
>
> I've seen discussions on Dpreview questioning the numbers rendered by the
> Pbase counters.
>
> I'm wondering if the Pbase stats have a way of excluding author clicks and
> bots from the numbers you are seeing, or are you just seeing numbers?   The
> nice thing about Webalizer is that all those things are broken down
> cleanly, so you can get a rather clear picture of just what images are
> performing well, and to what kind of audience down to browser types.
>
> It is a tough problem, when sometimes your image gets snagged in
> Stumbleupon, or some forum, and so your image count skyrockets, though you
> may not be getting any actual views in your album.
>
> That's another advantage to Webalizer on my own site, as I can find issues
> like that and pull pictures that might be misused in some way.  If I track
> them and find the use is innocent, I usually just let it be, or I watermark
> the image.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
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