So I have a project, dugg.org, and it suddenly got some traffic. For two days I got a whopping 30 hits, then it tailed off for a while. I’m completely confused on the traffic though. According to Google Analytics I’ve gotten a ton of referals from images.google.com. Images?? Dugg.org has no images. None.
I don’t get it.
Could links to images result in hits? Man, talk about disappointment.
Oh well, traffic is traffic.
For those who don’t know dugg.org, it’s an aggrigator for digg.com. All it does is grab the content at digg.com and recycles it into single daily pages you can flip through. It has like no real features other than that. I added the top user comments to add a new diamention, which it did. Not sure if i want to loosen the rules any, I figure the digg crowd does a decent job at promoting all the safe and some of the best comments to the top.
I need to put some time into the weekly version so it matches the daily version. It’s going to get bigger now with the comments the file size has grown a few bites, but who cares because its a single download and a great wrap up of a week worth of events and that is the point. One quick page to get a week of news.
All the other digg readers are just rss feed readers or some new ingenious new way to find out whats the hottest story. I don’t care about what might be hot in a few hours, my life is too busy to keep up with random bits of now. By having all the stories in one place, a quick scan over all the news articles happens twice as fast and you can then take measures to ensure you re-visit things that you where interested in. Where as with the normal digging method, you’d have to reload the page a number of times to get the full variety of stories Stuff happens and you loose your place, or your place has been updated and moved on and you go back to whats current and missing out on whats still current but beyond your digging threshold.
It’s not pretty, it has no fluff to it. It is what it is.
-M
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