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April 2, 2009

Brownstoner Monthly Traffic Tops 1.5 Million Pageviews

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We just crossed an important milestone last month, clearing 1.5 million pageviews for the first time. Last year we bounced around in a trading range of 1 million to 1.2 million but started breaking out in January. Thanks to all the readers, contributors and advertisers who've helped make it happen.




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Yes, and I have not yet received your 1Q2009 check. :)

Congratulations!!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 2, 2009 10:03 AM

You're welcome, Mr. B.

Posted by: Usual Suspect at April 2, 2009 10:08 AM

You're welcome, Mr. B.

(Usual Suspect)

Posted by: Biff Champion at April 2, 2009 10:12 AM

Gratz. Well deserved. I use to visit Curb more but that place went from bad to absolute sh!t hole.

Posted by: crimsonson at April 2, 2009 10:12 AM

And of course, a hearty congratulations and thank you once again for this site.

1,500,001!!

Posted by: Biff Champion at April 2, 2009 10:13 AM

The upward trend started with the end of the world party in October.

Posted by: slopefarm at April 2, 2009 10:18 AM

you are welcome! I don't comment a lot, but I do contribute to your page views--probably more than my job would like....;-)

Posted by: roofrights at April 2, 2009 10:23 AM

Where is my royalty check?
haha - JK
Congrats!
great site to be apart of

Posted by: gemini10 at April 2, 2009 10:26 AM

Congratulations Mr. B. Pretty unbelievable numbers. You richly deserve the success.

slope--I think you are on to something there. The End of the World Party is where the community aspect of this place really took off. Contrary to the opinions of some of the belly-achers on the commenting thread last week, the regulars of this site are crucial to the must read status that this place has achieved. A real living breathing e-community unlike anything I have ever seen has sprung up here and become the new town square. Love it.

Posted by: wasder at April 2, 2009 10:37 AM

Gratz. Well deserved. I visit here now more than the sh!t hole call Curbed.

Posted by: crimsonson at April 2, 2009 10:40 AM

Yes, thanks slopey and wasder for pointing that out. Whoever organized The End of The World Party deserves a great deal of credit. :-) Seriously, in my humble opinion, I do feel it helped bring many of the hardcore 'Stoners even closer together and strengthened the feeling that we are a community here and, at the end of the day, all in this together.

But clearly none of this would be happening without the efforts of Mr. B, to whom I'm sincerely very thankful.

Posted by: Biff Champion at April 2, 2009 10:45 AM

Can we aim for 2 Million page views this month....

Congrat's Mr. B!

Posted by: bayridgegirl at April 2, 2009 10:49 AM

Congratulations, jonathon! They don't get no respect but also a big hurray to the "regulars"!

Posted by: cmu at April 2, 2009 10:49 AM

that's great, Jon- you deserve every success- not just for all the hard work you've put in but for putting up with us :-)

Posted by: bxgrl at April 2, 2009 10:50 AM

Congratulations Mr. B.


You've really put together something great here. We all appreciate it.

Posted by: TownhouseLady at April 2, 2009 10:54 AM

Biff!!! Was that you who organized the party? Gosh, had I known, I would have said something. Seriously, Biff, great work on the parties.

And congrats to Mr. B for all the reasons wasder wrote. Despite the tone that the discussions sometimes take, there is a sense of community and lots and lots of people have gotten (and given) great advice on the forum and benefitted from the site's collective take on the market, houses and neighborhoods. It's not all team bear v. team bull.

Posted by: slopefarm at April 2, 2009 10:59 AM

As long as my Vista and Internet Explore keep crashing you'll continue to get lots of hits!

Posted by: crank at April 2, 2009 11:01 AM

Congrats. I love the new reader appraisal feature. Any chance you can have an opt-in checkbox, which, if selected, would associate your appraisal with your user id? Then, if users wanted, they could allow other users to view their appraisal accuracy. It would be a good way to distinguish realists from cranks.

Posted by: FatLenny at April 2, 2009 11:06 AM

Congrats! That's very impressive :)

Posted by: CG_ups at April 2, 2009 11:11 AM

I guess that means we're not going to have to pay $25 a year for the privilege of participating.

Posted by: altervoce at April 2, 2009 11:12 AM

The blog keeps growing and succeeding because Mr. B's vision keeps expanding and growing. How many new innovations have we seen this past six months?

slopefarm, spot on. I read this blog intermittently until Sept., and a bunch of things made me become more active.

Posted by: infinitejester at April 2, 2009 11:18 AM

Congrats! That's really terrif. I know I tell a lot of people to visit the site for excellent input on a wide variety of topics. And even the comments & dissention are saner than some places that want to charge big bucks to partake.

Posted by: Arkady at April 2, 2009 11:29 AM

The page views speak to the relevance and evenness of the coverage. The widgets, cranks and characters are very enjoyable, but if there wasn't something of value here, I'd be expanding the time I spend on other sites.

Posted by: Parklife at April 2, 2009 11:38 AM

Half a million in growth in 4 months. Glad to see the wider world discovering how awesome it is here.

I wonder, when threads are opened in order to comment on them, does that make another hit? And when you submit the comment and the page goes to the "May take a minute" notice, is that a hit?

Posted by: infinitejester at April 2, 2009 11:42 AM

It would be interesting to know the hit count for the last full month when guest posting was allowed. Mr. B?

Posted by: Biff Champion at April 2, 2009 11:49 AM

That is a massive number of hits. I'm a big fan of the Forum, as well as the main postings and the general hilarity of the comments. Mazel tov!

Posted by: buttermilk channel at April 2, 2009 11:54 AM

"And when you submit the comment and the page goes to the "May take a minute" notice, is that a hit?"

Infinitejester, I actually think that is more of a "hint".
:-)

Posted by: Biff Champion at April 2, 2009 11:54 AM

Congrats, Mr. B. Your hard work is evident in the site, and your other ventures. It's a blessing to be able to love your work, and look forward to doing it, and to be willing to change and improve as time goes by, so it remains current and relevant.

Opening up Brownstoner was always fun and interesting, and sometimes challenging, but now, it's often a gathering with friends to share in a larger community called Brookly. The community we have here is unique and quite wonderful in a world of increasing impersonality and isolation.

Thanks for my opportunity to contribute, and here's to higher and higher numbers.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at April 2, 2009 11:57 AM

Last full month of guest commenting was June--pageviews were around 1.2 million. For some reason November was actually one of the two worst months last year. Probably more to do with the calendar than any dip in activity: In addition to Thanksgiving break, November started and ended with weekends, which is bad for traffic. Weekend traffic is less than half of weekday, not surprisingly. At the time if you look at the daily number, switching to required log-in had no noticeable impact on traffic.

Posted by: brownstoner at April 2, 2009 12:01 PM

Thanks for the information, Mr. B.

"For some reason November was actually one of the two worst months last year."
- We were all still hung over from the End of the World Party in mid-October. :-)

Speaking once again of that, whether one loves or hates The What, I think he really does deserve some credit for the uptick in hits. Using an exaggeration of one of his posts, I calculated his initial prediction for the end of the world to be October 16, 2008. Without him, I'm not sure those of us who banded together would have done so. I think it is hard to refute that he has without a doubt made the site more interesting.

Posted by: Biff Champion at April 2, 2009 12:17 PM

did your comments last week have an effect on traffic Mr. B - Am I wrong in thinking traffic has slightly decreased this week as compared to last?

Posted by: dittoburg at April 2, 2009 12:20 PM

Biff---agreed that What has proved to be a crucial foil for many posters on the site. One can't have the kinds of discussions we have here in a vacuum.

ditto--at least your traffic has decreased since that discussion. Are you back?

Posted by: wasder at April 2, 2009 12:22 PM

Congratulations! You should know that your success has even reached Britain. My father-in-law was telling my husband recently about a book that he is reading about social-marketing and blogs. He told my husband about this one blog "in Brooklyn" that was doing a lot for community-networking. My husband then told him about Brownstoner to which he replied "thats the one." My husband can't remember the name of the book, but I can find out if you want.

Posted by: Turtlejam19 at April 2, 2009 12:24 PM

MAZEL TOV!

Posted by: CHMomma at April 2, 2009 12:30 PM

I've been here unrelentlessly since the Comments thread, wasder. Biff was away for a few days, including that one.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 2, 2009 12:44 PM

Love the site and quite a few folks I know say they regularly read. If you took out DIBS do the hits drop below 1m ?

Posted by: 10thStreetReno at April 2, 2009 12:44 PM

wader....check your email.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 2, 2009 12:45 PM

Dave--checked my email thanks! Also, I was asking Dittoburg whether he was back now (post strike)

Posted by: wasder at April 2, 2009 12:59 PM

so sorry I missed that thread! MM emailed me in FLA but I didn't have time to more than glance at it until I came home. DIBS- check your email too.

Posted by: bxgrl at April 2, 2009 1:01 PM

wasder...don't know how I mistook ditto for dibs!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 2, 2009 1:05 PM

Congratulations Mr. B
Well deserved success and thanks for everything

Posted by: pierre de taille at April 2, 2009 5:55 PM

I think the role played on this blog by various "antagonists" is quite interesting. When The What figured so prominently in that magazine article a while back, it spoke volumes. And before that it was the PLG Troll being interviewed on WABC radio.

By the way, I'm pretty sure that the guy who interviewed the PLG Troll was George Weber, the fellow who was killed not long ago after he arranged some sort of rendezvous via Craigslist.

Posted by: White and Proud in Crown Heights at April 2, 2009 9:20 PM

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