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A Poll

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

In the conversation following the “Years in Review” post, people have mentioned trying to get other people to read Station V3, finding Station V3 through the “It’s a Monolith!” ad I’ve run for it (based on this strip) – so how did YOU first find Station V3?

(Edit – Poll closed! Thanks for your replies.)

How did you first find Station V3?

  • The “It’s a monolith!” ad (44%, 72 Votes)
  • Link from another comic (34%, 55 Votes)
  • Other (10%, 17 Votes)
  • An ad for V3 other than “It’s a monolith!” (6%, 10 Votes)
  • Link from a blog (2%, 4 Votes)
  • A comic voting site (like TopWebcomics) (2%, 3 Votes)
  • A comic listing site (like TheWebcomicList.com) (1%, 2 Votes)
  • Link from a forum (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Twitter/Myspace/Facebook/etc. (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Stumbleupon/Reddit/etc. (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 164

Speaking of option 9 in the poll, there’s a new voting bonus strip up today (first one of the year!) – A sprite strip in which reality’s gone a little funny.

And in other news, there’s a new episode of PodWarp 1999 up now, recorded earlier this week!

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Years In Review

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

My goals for Station V3 for the past few years have been pretty basic: 1. Keep updating. 2. Try to get more people to read it. 3. Keep having fun doing it.

So how did I do?

Goal 1: You can see on the archive calendar that the first goal was accomplished! Z7 and Silence in the Darkness on Q16 also kept updating on schedule, and even Ebb’s Children had a few new strips go up.

Goal 2: The site logs are telling me this one was accomplished! 2009 was a very busy year for Station V3 in terms of site traffic, and 2010 was even better. So a big Thank You to everyone who read the comic and/or helped spread the word!

Goal 3: If this one wasn’t accomplished, I wouldn’t be here telling you this! :)

The goals for 2011 are the same, but with “Get the second book finished already!” added. Also I’ll try to be a little more active in terms of updating the blog, putting up bonus strips, drawing guest strips for other comics, etc.

Some info from the 2010 site logs:

  • The top 5 browsers being used to visit the site are Firefox (47.2%), Internet Explorer (29.4%), Chrome (9.5%), Opera (7.1%), and Safari (3.7%).
  • Windows led the operating systems list at 86.7%, followed by Linux at 6% and Mac at 5.9%.
  • The top 10 countries with the most page views were the US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Romania.
  • The most visited archive page for the year was the first one. (No surprise there! That was also true in 2009. And I think every year before that.)
  • The top 3 most visited archive pages for new strips in 2010 were June 26, February 28, and March 13.

Again, thanks for reading in 2010, and I hope you enjoy what’s coming in 2011!

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Site logs reveal: Station V3 is Pac-Man

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

I was looking at some bandwidth usage charts for all the various things I have hosted here, and one thing has been consistent on the pie charts for the past year – Station V3’s share always looks like Pac-Man.

For example:

The next biggest piece belongs to Z7, followed by the forum, and then the much smaller slivers for Ebb’s Children, Silence in the Darkness on Q16, the main ComicOstrich page (which I should really get around to improving at some point), etc.

The site logs also reveal that last month the least-read strips in the archives were June 22 through June 27 of last year, there were more hits on the site from people using Firefox (46.2%) than Internet Explorer (38.6%), the countries with at least 1000 pages viewed were (in order) the US, Canada, Belgium, Spain, New Zealand, Germany, and the UK, and 83.2% of visitors would like to see a breakfast cereal with marshmallows shaped like the third planet.

(Obviously that last part can’t be right… There is no third planet!)

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