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When I created the program TorPlus, my pageview went as high as 6K. But only for one day. After that everything settled down to normal quickly.
Hi Joyce, 6K is a lot! I just checked what TorPlus is about – seems pretty cool. I use Tor a lot (because I’m in China), but I don’t use Opera. It’d be handy to have it come bundled, especially for the average user.
Opera is my favorite. The latest alpha version of Opera, code named Kestrel, is cool. But there are still many unfixed bugs. Since they haven’t made any release in the last two weeks, I hope they are going to release the beta or full version soon.
Joyce, I’m a Firefox user myself. I’ve heard good things about Opera but I’m not likely to be prised away from Firefox because I rely on the extensions too much!
Firefox is my second choice. I always have a number of tabs open at the same time. firefox requires too much ram, when there is more than 10 tabs open.
Stephen.. sorry for the late response. I have been away for a few days.
I’m glad to see that it brought you some traffic.. I use SU a lot for inspiration as well as just to find some cool sites. As a SU user, I can tell you that indeed it takes a really really good article to make me stop and leave a comment when I am in the ‘Stumble’ mode. But, if I do come across an interesting article or site, I do add it to my Trial folder in Google Reader to give them a week or two to make it to my regular reading.
At the end of the day, extra exposure to our blogs can only be good even if we gather just one reader for a couple of thousand SU views.
I too find that stumblers rarely post comments. That’s a great amount of traffic from two stumbles, though!
Hi Jacob, thanks for stopping by. Yes, I’m not sure why the traffic was so high, but I’m not complaining. I think the impressions earned me two extra cents from Adsense.
K, I missed your comment there! I’ve had my head in the plugins lately. Thanks for the insight into the Stumble mode mindset – makes sense. I agree, extra exposure is good, one extra reader per thousand SU views is worth it. I guess if you get stumbled often, your conversion rate might improve – sooner or later some of them will realise they’ve been here before.
I’ve found StumbleUpon to be a very fickle friend. While the visitors from Stumble aren’t great, at least they don’t leave really mean and pointless comments.
CP, true… And I’ve discovered another postive side effect – my Alexa ranking jumped on the back of a couple of stumbles. We all know Alexa is flawed, but it has it’s uses.
Wow, all that traffic from just one stumble.
Dexter, It was pretty amazing…