New Dashboard Feature: Visit Trends
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 - 4:03 am - News
Graphs were invented to get humans to improve. There’s something about a horizontal line that makes you want to see it go higher and higher. As part of our constant efforts to give you the publishing tools you need, we’ve added the Visit Trends, as you can now see in the Dashboard. This graph shows the number of cumulative daily visitors to your content over the previous 30 days.
We hope that this graph will provide you with a wider picture of your content performance and motivate you to make that line go up by creating more and more content.
Stay tuned for more new and appealing features to come.
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Cool, but my visit trends are ridiculously low
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That’s a neat feature, but mine visits are low.
Interesting, my visits are too low too!
Wow thanks lol my highest amount of views this month is around 39!
that’s cool, but my visits are far too low as well!
Common Ko we’re all desparate to earn a buck or two, but visiting yourself 39 times is a bit much dont you think!!! Lol
I’m confused. I’ve never even had 50 visitors or views in 1 day. How can my trends graph between 100 and 200?
never mind. Found the answer.
I love this new tool! To see it go higher and higher, we all need to work harder!!
this is a great help! knowing how their articles perform certainly will motivate writers to look for ways to do better. i have not stayed long enough to see a trend but i noticed that the articles that exhibit the highest jumps are those recession and health related articles. will others share their analyses?
Thank you! This is a wonderful feature that will be helpful to all writers here on Triond.
my views are getting lower and lower at certain times of the week and then pick up, but i had 39 views one day too though i seem to remeber ten of those were me! oops! should not have admitted that really oh well!
Love this feather, thanks!
I just realized I said ‘feather’ instead of ‘feature’. Oops! Sorry about that.
I don’t fully understand what it is this graph represents. The graph shows 18 visits for yesterday when I had over 300 views.
THAT WAS NICE…IT WOULD MOTIVATE ME…THANKS FOR THIS FEATURE.
I like to think this site is about good writing and the promotion thereof.
However, I get the feeling someone is running a popularity contest. I mean, if I informed all my friends to crowd my sight, that that will define me as a “good writer” or a person with a lot of friends. I write, I like to think, because I love it, plus to earn something from the education of writing, not to gain friends nor emenies. I shall hope that my work is judged on its own merits and not on who and what I am.
I don’t really like this feature. It takes up a lot of space on my dashboard and feels so…cold and boardroom like. I’m sure its useful for some people, but I see my views for every article just fine on my content page, and the 5 highest on my dashboard. The graph just seems in the way.
Um. So I am wondering why all of a sudden I have tons of viewers? My other articles were unpopular last month and then BOOM! I now have 10k visits per day?! Is this a glitch? I’m up to 20k views now btw… I posted my article on April 1, 2009!
*** It is really a trippy design for us to do better. ***
However, the dates attached under the y-axis are too vague with very light or almost transparent colour. Could you beef it up, please?
Two more points have to be paid attention as follows:
First, different submitted work of the same writer has its own individual number of views; Second, how to plot a graph for those members who have a long history at triond.com? Is it necessary to extend the y-axis? Thank you for reading my bunch of hogwash.
Hi Beetleo,
It looks like your article was submitted to a social bookmarking site (like StumbleUpon or Digg) and this is why you are seeing the spike in page views. Congratulations on your hit article!
Hi,
This is really nice of us and I am loving it.
Thanks triond team.
ahh i see. Is there a max amount of earnings for an article? Oh and i love this graph thing and all but it’s somewhat useless because i don’t have the fluctuations. It’s always 10k views per day now.
Very nice addition to the site.
It’s helpful to see the popularity of certain topics at different times of the year with this feature. Nice upgrade.
This is an excellent tool, thank you!
Triond should add a new tab in the dashboard loaded with traffic analysis, keyword analyzers and other helpful tools to drive up traffic.
If a graph can raise our number of hits it’s a great thing. I need all the help I can get. Thanks Triond.
the graph won’t raise your hits but it shows you where you are at. Mine is now fluctuating between the thousands every day now. I stumbled upon a really hot topic. I myself looked for an answer and only just came up with it a while ago.
Hi Ebey, we’ll add that idea to our conversations on new features. Thanks for your suggestion!
An interesting feature that helps an author to analyse himself, how far he is doing or faring in his venture of article writing.In a way this feature may serve as a parameter to analyse one’s progress in terms of his contribution as well as visiting the site.Thank you for the novel idea that is not available in any other site.
It is a good step. What is unique in this is that it gives the trend of visits..
I think the trend spikes up every time I write a new article..
This is a great feature. I am now able to analyze my article writing better. The only problem I have is that my articles aren’t being read. I have submitted them to Facebook, Diggs and Stumble but the highest number of views I have is 47!
That hurts.
Beetleo, you say you have 10k views per day. Please help me get at least half of that. How are you doing it?
It is really excited to view my visits increasing almost 50%! This really helps to remind me I have to put more efforts to make it higher and higher!
Well now the trend has fallen to about 5-7k views per day. All I did was write an article about how to get hidden folders. I guess people like to know how to hide stuff?
It neither helps or hinders me, although I did like that spike to 18,000. Yippie…You guys rock!
Is anyone else having trouble with the TRENDS graph not showing in Firefox 3.0.8?
While I do have AdBlock and NoFlash (with javascript turned on,) installed, the TRENDS graph does not show at all. I can see the Tutorial video on the start page just fine and banner ads on pages, and of course, -those gawd-aweful hijack-your-browser-screen lightbox ads (that 99% of internet viewers LOATHE because it takes control away from the user for the duration of the loading time, btw) in the articles just fine, but no TRENDS graph. Turning-off these ‘no ads/ no FLASH animation’ features makes no difference. To view the TRENDS graph I switch rendering engines from Gecko (”Mozilla”) to Trident (”IE”) to view, or just use a different browser.
I would like to be able to view the graphs natively in Firefox, -does anyone have any suggestions?
Hmm don’t really see the point in the graph to be honest, I know how many views I’ve gotten each day, the toolbar tells me that. A minute ago there was another graph showing were views were being referred from, which was really interesting, but that seems to have gone. Guess it was just being tested.
stickman, I don’t know, but I’m seeing it in Firefox and I think I’ve got the latest version.
It’s possible that I have some setting disallowing this graph to show, but it was never a conscious decision therefore it seems to be a decision that one of my settings has made for me. Maybe an AdBlock rule or something. I have been selectively shutting-off various disallows trying to ascertain which one, but so far no luck.
Yes, -those other two graphs were interesting. Gone now though…
thank you for this cool visit trends
Fun feature but not a lot of use! Shows the spikes in hits but doesn’t tell me where they came from!
Waht is this for and how does it stand to improve earnings for all the beautiful articles already published? I don’t praise it! my earnings for the past 4 months: $4.11.
i havent had any views what is up with that
Erm…. how come when I look at my dashboard on Triond there is at least 30 views and my graph says 18??? Tell me what is going on please.
Philip – The numbers will vary because the Content Overview and the Visit Trends graph use different parameters for counting. Usually, the count on the Visit Trends graph is lower.
seriously very interesting innovative idea.
now i know what this is about, thank you.
Ya view in trends is actually lower then the views in my content, Maybe it’s just a little slow but it’s still a nice feature to have after putting in some effort, You can see how it pays off.