Regarding the difference between your email and non-email traffic, depending on how Substack tracks clicks that originate from email that end up on the actual garbageday.email domain, some of this traffic could be counted twice. For example, Gmail clips all of your emails off at the bottom and provides a link to view the whole message, which comes from a page on Google's domain. Clicking that link probably counts as email traffic. But I don't like reading part of the email then having to reload it again so I open the email once, click on the banner image at the top of the email to open the permalink for the actual post in a new tab, then delete the email.
If that counts as two interactions then I'm doubling my views in your data in two different channels. I don't actually understand website metrics and I'm increasingly of the belief that no one does, but I thought it was worth mentioning since Gmail is so popular.
Um... otherwise thanks for a great year and keep up the good work!
"[...]what I have learned, is that paying readers pirate the shit out of my paywalled pieces."
I don't know if it's Christmas brain or what but I can't figure out how a person pirates a newsletter they pay for? Please can someone clarify so I can understand whether I am accidentally doing this.
If you’re looking for t-shirt designs and want something… unconventional I may be able to help (some_rabbits on Instagram). Personally I think Garbage Day would look very striking spelled out in worms
"Also, I went on vacation in August. Based on what I’ve seen, vacations do cause a dip in traffic, but also tend to cause a big uptick when you start posting again."
I was gone five fucking days and I had two things in the can for that period and it still caused my only real dip of the year. Unreal.
Regarding the difference between your email and non-email traffic, depending on how Substack tracks clicks that originate from email that end up on the actual garbageday.email domain, some of this traffic could be counted twice. For example, Gmail clips all of your emails off at the bottom and provides a link to view the whole message, which comes from a page on Google's domain. Clicking that link probably counts as email traffic. But I don't like reading part of the email then having to reload it again so I open the email once, click on the banner image at the top of the email to open the permalink for the actual post in a new tab, then delete the email.
If that counts as two interactions then I'm doubling my views in your data in two different channels. I don't actually understand website metrics and I'm increasingly of the belief that no one does, but I thought it was worth mentioning since Gmail is so popular.
Um... otherwise thanks for a great year and keep up the good work!
"[...]what I have learned, is that paying readers pirate the shit out of my paywalled pieces."
I don't know if it's Christmas brain or what but I can't figure out how a person pirates a newsletter they pay for? Please can someone clarify so I can understand whether I am accidentally doing this.
If you’re looking for t-shirt designs and want something… unconventional I may be able to help (some_rabbits on Instagram). Personally I think Garbage Day would look very striking spelled out in worms
"Also, I went on vacation in August. Based on what I’ve seen, vacations do cause a dip in traffic, but also tend to cause a big uptick when you start posting again."
I was gone five fucking days and I had two things in the can for that period and it still caused my only real dip of the year. Unreal.