TMFRA From Germany, joined Apr 2006, 74 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1936 times:
Honestly, two years ago this picture would have had at least 100.000 views! What is going wrong...such a great and unique shot and "only" about 30.000 after one day? The breakdown in views only becomes noticeable to the "TOP OF 24 HOUR" shots, afterwards views are more or less the same. What I guess is that we have lost a lot of the so called "random users" while the "frequent users" are still there to view and upload?!?
TimdeGroot From Netherlands, joined Apr 2002, 3674 posts, RR: 67 Reply 1, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1933 times:
Quoting TMFRA (Thread starter): Honestly, two years ago this picture would have had at least 100.000 views!
I doubt that very much, even back in the day when a shot was up on the frontpage for 24 hours (instead of just a fraction now) shots would rarely get over 30K fews in a day. 30K after a day is not too bad I would say.
Anyway, I have found the majority of hits come after 24hrs, a.net seems to get a lot of traffic from search engines these days. I think last year I had one shot with 100K+ hits, and now I have like 15, all from shots that were already on the db.
Personally I find my average hits going up quick as ever, even if some shots dont do as well as I had hoped
AirKas1 From Netherlands, joined Dec 2003, 3848 posts, RR: 57 Reply 2, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1920 times:
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 1): Anyway, I have found the majority of hits come after 24hrs, a.net seems to get a lot of traffic from search engines these days.
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 1): Personally I find my average hits going up quick as ever, even if some shots dont do as well as I had hoped
I have to agree with what Tim said as I noticed that aswell.
TMFRA From Germany, joined Apr 2006, 74 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1917 times:
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 1): 30K after a day is not too bad I would say.
Please do not missunderstand me, 30.000 is perfect and great but in my opinion it would have been much more one or two years ago.
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 1): Anyway, I have found the majority of hits come after 24hrs, a.net seems to get a lot of traffic from search engines these days. I think last year I had one shot with 100K+ hits, and now I have like 15, all from shots that were already on the db.
That´s what I wanted to say but couldn´t find the correct words maybe. The first day views are often very low but afterwards will go up quicker than before. That was just an observation regarding TOP 24 HOURS.
UnattendedBag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2240 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 1912 times:
Quoting TMFRA (Thread starter): two years ago this picture would have had at least 100.000 views! What is going wrong..
Two years ago, this photo would have been on the front page for a LOT longer, leading to more views.
long ago
If you remember correctly, a photo would enter the front page as the second runner up, then level up to first runner up and finally to the top position. Once its reign was over, the photo would remain on the front page while it waited for the next two first place finishers to slowly knock it off. If it was worthy of "Photographer's Choice", it would remain on the front page for many more hours as it climbed and descended that ladder. Therefore, it could remain on the front page for many hours.
The way it works now, top photos like this will only remain on the front page for 4-6 hours (rarely longer). Like Tim said, 30k is damn fine for the amount of time this photo has been on the front page.
Quoting TMFRA (Thread starter): What I guess is that we have lost a lot of the so called "random users" while the "frequent users" are still there to view and upload?!?
Don't worry, this photo highlights a growing and now more perceptible problem in aviation, bird strikes. This photo will continue to gather views for a long long time to come.
Chuck9941 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 188 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1866 times:
Quoting UnattendedBag (Reply 4): Don't worry, this photo highlights a growing and now more perceptible problem in aviation, bird strikes. This photo will continue to gather views for a long long time to come.
Which unfortunately also means greater chance of unauthorized use. Being such a unique photo though will at least cause it to stand out making it harder to argue that it was used illegally (if it ever is).
Not to be the downer, but we all know its got a chance.
Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.
UnattendedBag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2240 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1852 times:
Quoting Chuck9941 (Reply 5): making it harder to argue that it was used illegally (if it ever is).
I see it has the watermark, so that should deter many from using it illegally.
Whisperjet From Germany, joined Nov 2007, 552 posts, RR: 9 Reply 7, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1763 times:
Hi,
I expected it to get some more hits but can't say that I'm disappointed about 30k views.
We shouldn't forget that the photo was published in a lot of magazines and newspapers and also on their websites more than one week ago.
I have seen many posts in different forums with links to the picture on the Bild and Daily Mail websites so probably the majority has seen it somewhere else already.
Chuck9941 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 188 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1725 times:
Quoting Whisperjet (Reply 7): We shouldn't forget that the photo was published in a lot of magazines and newspapers and also on their websites more than one week ago.
agreed. I saw the photo on the Yahoo main page 2 days before it was posted here.
Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.
Freddielaker2 From Tokelau, joined May 2006, 7 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (3 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1572 times:
Well at least you have so many hits on the photo, I have taken over 3000 at different airports and those that I have thought maybe at least respectable have been rejected constantly, that is soul destroying so to have 30k hits in one day? - be happy be very happy as I haven't even had one.
UnattendedBag From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 2240 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 1477 times:
On an unrelated note, I noticed you stated that over 200 birds were sucked into the engines. Did you give that number to the newspaper or did you clip that from the news story? I am just wondering about the amount of birds that actually got sucked into the engines and the total number of birds in the "swarm".
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