Cagematch: IttyBiz and VoxFortis

Susan - Feb 22, 2008 in Uncategorized | 14 Comments

And people wonder why I’m a web analytics nerd.Chick fight!

Look, I’ll be the first to admit my web traffic is pretty sad. It’s not what it should be given that I do this stuff for a living…which is probably why I don’t have the time to put my mad skillz to use in my own little space here. That said, I still look at my analytics every day, because I’m compulsive that way.

I was sipping my coffee, checking out yesterday’s numbers, and was interested to see there was a spike. I was curious as to why, so I checked out my referring traffic, and drilled down to a particular link that was doing it. It’s an “XHTML Challenge” and there on the page was my friend Naomi over at IttyBiz vs. my piddly little site right here. You can check it out here. I have no idea what the stuff on there means (other than our content ratios, which shows right there why she has a much bigger audience than I do). I do know that even though at the moment I’m winning 7 votes vs. 3, I will likely lose because I don’t have scores of minions. :) (Though I do love my faithful readers, and you know who you are *cough*JuddandMichael*cough*.)

The interesting part is that you can see who started the challenge, and it’s none other than Jon over at Freelance Folder. (At least I think it is. It’d be a mighty huge coincidence if there was another “JPhilips” out there who reads both Naomi and myself.) I suspect that because he’s male, he wants to see a girlfight complete with mud wrestling, but he’s also probably smart enough to know that Naomi and I are the furthest thing from that.

Then again, would it get me more readers?

14 Comments...

  1. Michael Carnell on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    Can I be first this time???

  2. Susan on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    Yes. :-D

  3. Jon Phillips on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    hehe yep that’s me who submitted your 2 sites, I’ve been getting quite a bit of traffic from xhtmlchallenge so I thought ‘humm, why not?’ Basically this site compares coding, css, xhtml and other geeky stuff, I thought it would be fun since both VoxFortis and Ittybiz were designed by Cagintranet :)

    So… about the mud wrestling… :)

  4. Susan on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    Well, I’m a girl, so I just see it as a popularity contests.

    And I dunno, man. I could probably kick some tail in the mud wrestling thing. But, Naomi IS pregnant and I just ain’t that mean. :-D

  5. Michael Carnell on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    OK, it is a rough job, but someone is going to have to do it. If you and Naomi have to have a mud wrestling match then I will voluteer my services as referee and judge. That is just the kind of giving and sacrificing person I am.

  6. Susan on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    Michael, the world owes you a debt of gratitude. They will write songs about you someday.

  7. Naomi Dunford on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    See what happens when you sleep 20 hours a day? You miss out on invitations to mud wrestle.

    Speaking of pregnant mud wrestling, when you google that phrase as an exact quote, you get five sites. I don’t know if that makes me happy or sad.

  8. Michael Carnell on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    @Susan - There are already limerics, but I can’t repeat them.

    @Naomi - great… now I have to try to resist Googling that. Trying very hard to resist…

  9. Michael Carnell on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    It has to make you wonder…

    http://www.ehow.com/how_2092781_host-mud-wrestling-event.html

  10. Judd Exley on February 22nd, 2008 said:

    Jeez, I’m so busy reading the awesomness that you’ve linked to, and signing up for shit, that I barely remembered to come back here and comment in a fashion befitting one of Your Loyal Readers.

    Ooooooh, I like that. I like being special.

    Your friends rock. And you rock, but you knew that.

    I am pretty consistently amazed that you’ve got hardly anybody here reading you, and I’m torn between wanting the whole World to and wanting to keep you as my little secret. I’ll happily share you with the World though, cos then I can say “I knew her when”.

    Only problem is, my company site, you know, the one that I write on for a living… doesn’t get shit for traffic either. So, there you go. I’ll find a way to funnel more love this way though, sister, you better believe it.

    Smooches from Down Under.

  11. Monika Mundell on February 23rd, 2008 said:

    Well Susan,
    Fear no more. You got yourselves a new reader driving by your smart comment on Naomi’s “heart”blog. Now onto that mud - since we had more than enough rain in the last 6 weeks or so I’m happy to ship you some for a small fee. ;-)

  12. Monika Mundell on February 23rd, 2008 said:

    uhh..oh..edit: “driven” not driving all though I’m close to driving to the next pub since it’s so bloody hot right now. Who can work under these condition’s anyway.

  13. Tzaddi on February 26th, 2008 said:

    The challenge is interesting. I voted for you because according to the site your code has no errors and Naomi’s site has 145! Though, Strict has harder rules than Transitional… Sorry, I guess that’s kind of a geeky response, eh?

  14. Judd Exley on April 16th, 2008 said:

    *cough*UPDATE ALREADY*cough*

    Subtle as I’m trying to be, it’s been a while eh? Okay sure, sure, I’ve been slack as well and understand what happens when you get busy but FFS already.

    Your friends at Sproutwire are kicking some booty too, that site is awesome and one of my new favourites.

    So yeah… I guess I’ll just wait to hear from you then. *sits on couch and stares at phone*

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