Look, I know my site sucks. It’s the worst. Let’s concede that point.
That said, we can still compare relative suckiness within the same universe. I have 11 years of data, and the data for May 2019 might have the Mets concerned.
I break my data into two chunks – there’s the Old Internet when websites were a business before Facebook strangled everything. Again, I concede my site sucks but a lot of big websites found THEY couldn’t make a go of things after the Facebookpacalypse, so that’s not just me being unable to hit 2013 level numbers.
So let’s keep the discussion to say 2015 and beyond. As you might imagine. my site did well in months like September and October 2015, again at the end of 2016….and April 2018 (11-1 and Mickey’s new Salt & Pepper Culture). Let me show you what that looks like…
That spike in the middle there is April 2018, and the full line is from the start of 2017. So despite the suckiness of my blog, 2018 had every month above the month from the year before (I compare August to August etc).
2019 came out of the box a touch below 2018….but now this May cliff.
Numbers are down by half. Unless Paul Lukas starts throwing me links daily I’m going to miss the May 2018 number by a LOT. (And even then I don’t know if Paul could drag it up at this point).
I opened up Google Analytics to se if anything is broken (comparing May to May). Everything is more or less running at the same percentages.
Here’s another view of the month to month, and here you can really see the effect a World Series will have on things (those are the mountains on the left). You see the usual pattern – the beginning of the season always spikes traffic, then as the Mets fade in the standings so do the numbers. Winters are lower. Playoffs and All Star Games move the numbers. All that is intuitive and should make sense to you.
So this brings me back to the subject matter: The Mets.
I’m wondering if people are more checked out on this team than the Mets realize. I mean, again the blog sucks and all, but traffic is down by half. That is concerning.
I looked at attendance figures – the Mets are average 28,218 – slightly up from the 28,164 they averaged all of last season, so it’s not showing up at the gates.
I dunno, but I have been doing this a long time now and if I were the Mets I’d wonder if this is an early warning sign. I know I sound like Al Gore circa 2000.
