{"id":35161,"date":"2016-10-28T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35161"},"modified":"2016-10-28T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:34:40","slug":"poll-results-finding-twenty-sided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35161","title":{"rendered":"Poll Results: Finding Twenty Sided"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago I asked people what content brought them to my site, and how they found it. The poll ran for 24 hours and has 1,717 total responses. As before, no effort was made to prevent ballot-stuffing. I also didn’t filter out nonsense answers, like people claiming they found me through last year’s Mass Effect series<\/a> but have been reading for a decade. This is trivia, not science.<\/p>\n

Here is the pie chart that Google made of the results: <\/p>\n

There were 1,717 responses. The discrepancy you see is due to some people only answering one question.<\/div>
There were 1,717 responses. The discrepancy you see is due to some people only answering one question.<\/div><\/p>\n

Well, that is a horrible pie chart. The whole thing is swimming in whitespace, yet it truncated most of the responses. For the record the answers to question #1 are:<\/p>\n

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  1. I was linked to DM of the Rings.\n
  2. I was linked to one of the Text Plays. (Champions Online, LOTRO, etc.)\n
  3. I came here through YouTube after seeing one of the videos Shamus made.\n
  4. I was linked to Spoiler Warning or Diecast, and found the site through those.\n
  5. I found this place through a link to the Mass Effect series. (Or Final Fantasy X.)\n
  6. I found this site through content Shamus made on The Escapist. (Experienced Points, Stolen Pixels, Shamus Plays.)\n
  7. I originally came here looking for information on Good Robot.\n
  8. I came here through a link to the Autoblography.\n
  9. I was given a link to a specific series or blog post not mentioned above.\n
  10. You know, it’s been so long I don’t remember.\n<\/ol>\n

    Some random comments on the results:<\/p>\n

    I’m really shocked at how small the Mass Effect slice (the purple one) is in the first chart. My traffic went up during the series. I haven’t gotten attention like that in years, so I expected it to make a bigger impact. <\/p>\n

    I’m actually a little disappointed that DM of the Rings is still responsible for 45% of the audience here. It gives me that terrifying feeling of, “Will I ever make something that good again?” On the other hand, this chart obviously only includes people who are still visitors, which means the rest of my content has been good enough to keep them hanging around for years. <\/p>\n

    One person said they came here because of Good Robot. That same person also claimed they’d been here for more than six years. These two facts contradict each other, meaning the response isn’t useful. This is the only response in the whole survey that gave the Good Robot answer.<\/p>\n

    Zero people gave the “Autoblography” as an answer. That makes sense. You generally don’t want to read someone’s life story until after you care about them, so it can’t really attract new people. But still. Zero<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    I’m really surprised at how few people came here through YouTube, just 1.1%. My video on Megatextures<\/a> has about 400k views. The one on FUEL<\/a> is 1.8 million. That’s enormous. Heck, if I could sustain those kinds of numbers I’d be one of those fancy YouTube superstars. But people on YouTube don’t want to leave YouTube. No matter how well I do over there, it doesn’t really help me here, and this is the place that really matters. I still wish I could do more videos, but this does make me feel better that I’m not passing up on potential traffic by not making more of them. I actually have three scripts done (or nearly so) for Reset Button videos. They’re topics that feel like they should be videos, but it just takes so damn long to make the stupid things. <\/p>\n

    About a fifth of you are here because of the stuff I made for the Escapist. On one hand, I love that I can focus all my efforts onto the site now and don’t have to write for two different audiences. On the other hand, I’m really going to miss that source of new eyeballs. Like I said above, it’s easy to get people to watch a video and hard to get them to read an article. Don’t get me wrong. Readers exist<\/strong> out there. Prose is not dead. But discovery is a huge problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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