As some have noticed, there's a Win post that has been going viral over the last 24 hours.
At the time of writing this post, we've received 1.48 MILLION unique visitors in the last 24 hours, and this number looks like it may exceed 2 million.
After 2 weeks of being off Reddit, Win is discovering the impact it can have, and the potential that Reddit, Inc. spent the last 3 years trying to silence.
Share TheDonald.win with all the Trump supporters in your life.
And to all the lurkers: sign up.
1.48 million unique visitors in 24 hours. Typically this is detected by a combination of cookies and IP address, filtering out bots etc. using a 3rd party tool such as google analytics or a 3rd party tool to sift through web logs.
This is great news but I would have almost had expected that to be 1.48 million page views. So we have 1.48 million users... lets round down and be conservative and say 1 million. Where are all the accounts and signups and upvotes? I'd be interested to know the number of average page views per user, etc.
I guess most people are just going to look and not contribute or join the discussion but perhaps there should be something else to push participation. Maybe a huge JOIN button somewhere with the benefits.
Upvoting leads you to a login page with an obscure "create account link" That should be more prominent.
It's also probably not intuitive to a lot of people that you can click the upvote arrow. That is a reddit thing and I would guess a lot of people are more used to a thumbs up or a heart like on FB/TW. Unless you have the context for Up and Down they may not be clicking.
All in all this is great news about the amount of traffic to the site and how you are managing it but just wanted to make a few observations.
Right. We hadn't anticipated virality this early, but plan to be more prepared to convert these visitors into recurring users next time.
4.5 mil pageviews.
Every time I log in I get sent to some weird manifest page. I have to delete the end of the url to return to the site. Just a heads up that I am sure you knew about already.
What's your browser and OS? This issue was considered fixed 2 months ago. I think it may still be a problem for Apple devices.
Mine used to do that. I found when I book marked it on my napple computer it seemed to be ok...I have a snackbook pro
Can you confirm whether this still occurs? Pushed a (potential) fix for this a few days ago, and haven't personally experienced it since.
Now it leads me to an error page.
https://thedonald.win/error
Posting interface needs works and "yet another login" fatigue leads to lurking.
There's a reason we all lingered on Reddit for so long.
Yes, Seems like huge numbers of visitors compared to numbers of comments.
Lots of visitors, but they don't necessarily sign up for accounts, much less comment or upvote. That reach is still critical, though.