Playing Here traffic per week, first two months
Traffic on Playing Here is steadily increasing, despite the very limited publicizing we’ve done so far. It’s almost entirely from search engines, which seem to love that every event, every venue, every date, every month, every city, every state, every year and every user has a separate page on the site. It’s the latter two, years and users, I want to focus on here.
The number of events on Playing Here is also steadily increasing, and we recently ran into a problem with the inability to display all of the shows for a year on a single page. The page just gets way too big and the server gets tired before it finishes. This is one of the nicer types of problem to have, but it’s still a problem. To avoid this, the year pages (e.g. 2007, 2008) now show a list of months and the number of shows in each month. As a quick visual reference, there’s also a simple bar graph behind the month name. As you might expect, the number of events per month gradually trails off into the future, as bands don’t tend to schedule tours very far in advance.
User pages are new. Whenever anyone leaves a comment on a specific show, their username will link to their user page. Currently the user page only lists comments, so if you see someone say something interesting about one show, you can see what they said about other shows. We have a lot of plans for additions to user pages, but that’s all for now.
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