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I read this and wondered "how significant is a million pageviews on Flickr"? I've got 637k pageviews (http://flickr.com/photos/ckindel/stats http://flickr.com/

by cek 15y ago

I read this and wondered "how significant is a million pageviews on Flickr"? I've got 637k pageviews (http://flickr.com/photos/ckindel/stats http://flickr.com/photos/ckindel/stats). Does anyone know if there is a way to list Flickr users by the # of pageviews?

lusr 15y ago
Now I'm also curious. At first I thought 1,000,000 is a huge number of views, but at 3,100 photos that's just 322/photo. I can't access Flickr from work but I think I have about 45 photos and 18,500 views, averaging 411/photo, and that's just from a couple of up votes on reddit/itookapicture (seldom more than 5-10). Obviously the actual distribution of views will vary quite a bit, but it's a useful starting point. That being said, this guy seems to have quite an ability to take interesting photos of ordinary situations whereas I tend to save the camera for special moments so I doubt I'll ever hit 3,100 photos. Unfortunately it looks like the Flickr Stats API is per-user, and private, with no global statistics available (nor in a Flickr blog post), so we can't know what's "normal" and what's not.
danso 15y ago
You reminded me that I had wanted to mention my observations about pageviews, so I added them to the post: http://danwin.com/2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-dollars-poorer-and-still-countlessly-richer/#flickrpageviews http://danwin.com/2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-d... The answer: I don't know. Besides frequently uploading to Flickr, I don't take advantage of many of the social features...I notice I get very few comments on even my highly trafficked photos. I'm guessing this is because a good portion of traffic comes from social sites like Reddit...and most of those users aren't likely to create a Flickr account to comment. Also, Flickr's "interestingness" algorithm does not seem to place much importance on high traffic, if that traffic comes from a single outside source. And also, I've never drawn much traffic from Google or other search engines.
danso 15y ago
I took a quick look through your photostream...one other factor to consider: You have a higher proportion of personal/friend/family photos in your photos (I post my friend/family photos only on FB), whereas I have mostly general interest New York photos. Photos from New York (a snowball fight in Minneapolis would not likely draw much attention) are typically more in demand so it seems that I should actually should have much higher traffic than you, assuming most random browsers are more interested in New York than a photog's friends/family. So my milestone seems even less noteworthy (and/or, of course, your general interest photos are particularly interesting).

by cek 15y ago

lusr 15y ago

Now I'm also curious. At first I thought 1,000,000 is a huge number of views, but at 3,100 photos that's just 322/photo. I can't access Flickr from work but I think I have about 45 photos and 18,500 views, averaging 411/photo, and that's just from a couple of up votes on reddit/itookapicture (seldom more than 5-10). Obviously the actual distribution of views will vary quite a bit, but it's a useful starting point. That being said, this guy seems to have quite an ability to take interesting photos of ordinary situations whereas I tend to save the camera for special moments so I doubt I'll ever hit 3,100 photos. Unfortunately it looks like the Flickr Stats API is per-user, and private, with no global statistics available (nor in a Flickr blog post), so we can't know what's "normal" and what's not.

danso 15y ago

You reminded me that I had wanted to mention my observations about pageviews, so I added them to the post: http://danwin.com/2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-dollars-poorer-and-still-countlessly-richer/#flickrpageviews http://danwin.com/2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-d... The answer: I don't know. Besides frequently uploading to Flickr, I don't take advantage of many of the social features...I notice I get very few comments on even my highly trafficked photos. I'm guessing this is because a good portion of traffic comes from social sites like Reddit...and most of those users aren't likely to create a Flickr account to comment. Also, Flickr's "interestingness" algorithm does not seem to place much importance on high traffic, if that traffic comes from a single outside source. And also, I've never drawn much traffic from Google or other search engines.

danso 15y ago

I took a quick look through your photostream...one other factor to consider: You have a higher proportion of personal/friend/family photos in your photos (I post my friend/family photos only on FB), whereas I have mostly general interest New York photos. Photos from New York (a snowball fight in Minneapolis would not likely draw much attention) are typically more in demand so it seems that I should actually should have much higher traffic than you, assuming most random browsers are more interested in New York than a photog's friends/family. So my milestone seems even less noteworthy (and/or, of course, your general interest photos are particularly interesting).