Blog Entries tagged 'traffic'

Unrelated Beta Test Funnies

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

One of our beta testers is in Oz and sent me this story about Comcast putting a 250G limit on monthly downloads and added this comment:

Here in Sydney we pay $89.95AUD/month for 768K DSL with a 2G limit on combined uploads and downloads. Every 10M over that limit costs $0.25AUD. What in the world are Americans doing on the internet?

Wow. Bandwidth limiting. And, no, I don't know how you could need 250G/month unless you were watching live streaming moves. At on [...]

TechCrunch Can't Do Math

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I was reading through the usual stuff this morning and hit this about a TechCrunch post that

ended up at the Yahoo front page, which leads to around 300,000 clicks per second. That’s a crap load of users.

Yes, it is. Or would be if it were true.

Do Some Numbers

I always like to run the numbers up and down until I get something I can comprehend. I look at Al [...]

Doing The Math - No Money In Facebook

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

The otherwise very very smart Don Dodge posted this gem that gets some bits right:

I talked to a Facebook App developer at the ReMix conference. He told me his app is generating 300 million page views per month. Wow! Then I asked what kind of CPM (Cost Per Thousand) ad rates he was getting. He shrugged and said somewhere between $0.02 and $0.05 per thousand. That pencils out to betw [...]

Converting Traffic to Value

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

It is a truism that
"you have to have the right traffic" to convert. Convert people to what? Well, it depends:

RSS readers
Subscibers
Ad clicker-throughers
eBook downloads
And so on....

At the end of the day it is about converting people to a vaulable asset.

And I don't disagree with any of that because we have been experimen [...]