Has everyone tried out the new Flickr homepage yet? I love it. If you haven't, login to Flickr and look at the bottom of the page. You should find a link to try out the new homepage. Click on it, enjoy the music (totally serious), and explore the new page.
One of the best new things I found was an option to turn on statistics about my photos. I'm such a numbers geek, so I had to do this. It told me it might take a while to compile all of the numbers, but I checked back in a few minutes and it was ready. What I found was shocking!
I should give some back story here. When Jared and I were first looking for a place here in Columbus, I took this picture of my foot on the dashboard of my car (I like taking pictures of my feet, apparently). It's really not that exciting of a picture, but somehow it was getting way more views than my other pictures. So about a year ago, I decided to try to take a picture that would surely get more views than any of my other pictures. The result was this picture (safe for work, I promise), which I strategically named "Foot Fetish." Sure enough, it has gathered just over 2,000 views to date, and 7 people call it a favorite. But to my surprise, that is not my highest viewed picture. What picture could possibly get more views than that?
This one, apparently:
Yes, somehow a cart full of Wii gear is way more exciting than a bunch of feet - this picture has gotten over 7,000 views to date! That's a whole hell of a lot more than the foot fetish one. Nobody calls this photo a favorite though, and that doesn't really surprise me. My guess is that the majority of the views came right after this photo was taken, when a lot of people couldn't find a Wii in the stores and were looking around online for photos of one - although the stats don't seem to go back far enough for me to confirm that.
The foot fetish photo is still racking up views, but it will be a long time before it ever surpasses the cart o' Wii goodness. If you want, check out the rest of my stats here.
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feet, Flickr, photo, statistics, Wii Erica Thursday, September 11, 2008 5 comments
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omg, i'm famous!! well, my feet are anyway. ew.
Looks like you have to have an account to see your stats.
Hope you're enjoying your time off.
Funny about the feet because one my friends' blogs had the same type of thing. He wrote about his broken foot and cast and had a picture. His wasn't on Flickr, just his blog, so he was able to see more stats from the traffic and somewhere along the way his photo got linked to from a Japanese foot fetish web site. Gross.
Apparently there are a lot of Quagmire's out there, so be careful where you put your feet! Ha!
Oops! That should say "pro account" to see your stats.
Sorry.
I didn't realize it was just a pro account thing - oops. Jared also informed me today that the stats have been around for a while, so I was wrong about it being new. Oh well.
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