So, how’s that redesign coming, Denton? Between the rotating WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH and “Post Save Failed” it’s no wonder I’ve taken my commenting juice elsewhere and the stats look like this:
Denton claims that Sitemeter isn’t accurate: all I can say is that I’ve used them continuously for five years and that my own sitemeter readings for two blogs over that same period of time are completely in line with expectations and agree as well with my WordPress.com stats.
UPDATE: Here’s the direct link to Gawker sitemeter stats which Denton doesn’t want you to look at, versus the Quantcast stats, which he does. And on Twitter, Matt Cherette comes to the defence of the Dark Lord.
When your whole raison d’etre is to get the infotainment out before anyone else does (“Tomorrow’s news”) and foster a pageview-pumping dialogue in your comments section, this is about as complete a failure as can be imagined. God knows, I’ve bashed Gawker enough in the past, but it’s because Gawker matters to me. It’s rapidly ceasing to do that. Before, I would have put my debunking of the fake Anonymous chat transcripts in the comments section at Gawker, then damned myself for not blogging it first. Now, even if I wanted to post it on Gawker first, I couldn’t.
Yet another example of why meeting a launch date with a flawed product is a bad idea. Who needs hackers when you’re your own worst enemy? When this is still happening, one month after the launch, you need to go back to the drawing board AND the blog view.
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Jennifer
March 21, 2011
Amen! And so much of what you’ve said translates elsewhere.
By the way, those browser stats for Gawker are really curious. Firefox 36%, Safari 46%, any version of IE 12%. Must be all those Macbook Airs out there.
Lost Weekinght
March 22, 2011
That bar graph looks eerily like March in Japan…to the day.
raincoaster
March 22, 2011
Jennifer, Gawker is big with Mac fanboys: they’re Gizmodo addicts.
LW, that’s true. I was in a chat room once and watched all of Russia go offline. Over a hundred people suddenly vanished from the internet. It was scary.