Question for those that have had their stuff featured in any b3ta newsletter
How much have your stats gone up after being linked? I almost shit myself when I saw our statistics (it was the BigWetDoggy video). Since it was featured in the newsletter, it's been downloaded over 14,000 times (!) and we've used about 112GB in bandwidth since then as well.

I'm happy, but also relieved that we know our web hosts personally and they're not going to charge us extra for it all :-)

How many newsletter subscribers are there?
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:19, archived)

2
But they keep getting invitations to G-Mail.
( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:22, archived)

"Geordie Al, coming in first every time!!!1!1one!"
Tee hee, I don't even know you, but I like your eagerness ;)
( Dekazer, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:23, archived)

Some say eagerness
Others say comptempt for work...
( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:24, archived)

*knows the feeling*

( Dekazer, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:26, archived)

Yeah
*bums boss' coffee cup*
( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:28, archived)

Did you not burn your phallus?

( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:32, archived)

Yes.
But it was worth it.
*bums tube of savalon*
( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:35, archived)

Scalded
Shirley?
( Dekazer, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:35, archived)

Not recently

( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:36, archived)

*Looks round office*
*Sniffs coffee*

BLLLEEEEUUUUUUURRRRGGGHHHHHH

*Spits coffee*
( Dekazer, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:36, archived)

Can I have
a pay rise, now?
( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:41, archived)

20, 000+


Edit:
78,000+ it seems
Woo
( Hankster, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:25, archived)

They are always pimping it as haveing
a circulation of around 70-75,000 arent they?
( Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:30, archived)

the email subs are 78,000
approx 40 or 50k more read it via the front page.

although some of the email people probably have died / or delete it.
( rob, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:35, archived)

That's a good point
with that many subscribers, I wonder how many of them have actually died? There must be quite a large amount, on a list with that many people.

That's a very strange and morbid thought isn't it....
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:41, archived)

68 so far
*wipes dagger*
( Hankster, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:42, archived)

I know of one
I had an email from a friend of his whose job was to email all the people in his address book to share the news.
( rob, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:45, archived)

Don't forget about the addicted
who are subscribed but have always read it by the time it arrives in the inbox. That's probably everyone who's on b3ta on Fridays.
( Deebster, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 17:28, archived)

dunno
I just read it online, easier than clogging my inbox with it
(Dinsdale v Spiny Norman, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:26, archived)

You don't like being distracted from
the on-line Viagra-u-like, make-it-big thingie extensions and librarian sluts shower in spunk spam, do you?
( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:28, archived)

Librarian sluts
shower? Where? Tell me!
(Dinsdale v Spiny Norman, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:37, archived)

Haven't you
checked your e-mail?
( Geordie Al, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:38, archived)

Shitloads.
When Hamlet got in the newsletter (and thence into people's blogs and hotlists, and thence to more blogs and hotlists...), my web stats graph went:

(Daily Avg. # visits:)
Nov 2003 - 7
Dec 2003 - 600
Jan 2004 - 1440
Feb 2004 - 728
Mar 2004 - 587

it's now settled down at about 200.
Enjoy your new-found fame (while it lasts.)

/edit: maybe it's time I did something else interesting.
( Newington, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:27, archived)

check the subs numbers in real time
groups.yahoo.com/group/b3ta/
( rob, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:29, archived)

78,000???
could almost have your own charity concert at wembley stadium with that...
( comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:31, archived)

Holy
Fucking
Shit.

That's a lot of subscribers.

I'm assuming that there are a lot that don't read it then :-/
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:33, archived)

who knows?
a bit of that and most people don't click every link - they choose what sounds interesting to them.
( rob, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:36, archived)

That's very true.
And there are plenty of links in the newsletter that I don't click at work, just in case....

...like the one time I played the "workplace russian roulette" or whatever it was called (ok, ok, i'm fucking stupid, it said NSFW, but it was just me and one other guy in our room) and we were treated to the sight of Mr Goatse. The one and only time i've been subjected to that image.
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:43, archived)

My invisibility game
here
made the madnesstemple.com bandwidth go up from 275.27 MB (Jul, no game) 9.07 GB (Aug, game made about halfway through month, I think) to 16.89 GB (Sep- erk...) which has resulted in 1170159 hits during september alone (but only 918 of those were from the b3ta newsletter...)

the file was only 22k...
(1, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:46, archived)

i'd be suprised if was only 918
your stats probably don't mark up the email clicks as from b3ta
( rob, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 16:57, archived)

that makes sense
and also jelly. and nothing
(1, Wed 15 Sep 2004, 17:10, archived)