Almost all of my traffic is coming from the U.S., Japan and Brazil. That actually makes a lot of sense, since Brazil has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan. I believe what I’m seeing here is a strong indicator that the site traffic for Way of the Waifu is real after all, since these are the places where I would expect to find the largest audiences for English-language manga. The bandwidth usage makes sense as well, since most of it comes from the music and videos; which don’t have a typical anime look or sound. I wouldn’t expect them to be as interesting to a Japanese audience as the comic pages.
That’s the SSL traffic. Japan is nearly half of the non-SSL traffic, generating nearly as much traffic as the United States.
Logically, since there is no advertising for this site, and hasn’t been for over a year, all of the traffic is likely to be coming from “word of mouth” advertising. Which is the best kind, because it reflects real interest. But, I can’t find any mention of my webcomic anywhere. That could be partially explained if it’s being talked about on the Japanese speaking portion of the internet. It wouldn’t be easy for me to find. But, what about English speakers? Shouldn’t I see something, somewhere?
Well, you can see that I’ve tried to make my decisions based on evidence and logic – not wishful thinking. I haven’t been able to explain the explosion in site traffic, but I can’t disprove the realness of it, and I’ve tried.
We’re not talking huge numbers, but here’s the SSL for this year-
It will go over 2,500 for June, for sure, so June’s SSL will easily be six times bigger than March’s. AWstats is only showing 23 robots. Bots are supposed to shoot up page counts, but not unique visitors. Page counts appear to be scaling in proportion to uniques though. I’m no expert, but that doesn’t seem to indicate bot activity.
This looks more like someone made a social media post somewhere. If that happened, I’d sure like to see it.