Comments on: Daily Podcast: You Know in All This Excitement

By: Michael Karesh

Michael Karesh — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:37:20 +0000

Which, surprisingly enough, is high for a website. Surfers can have incredibly short attention spans, often spending just seconds on a site.

I think the average at TrueDelta is about 2:30.

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:07:34 +0000

yankinwaoz:

The average TTAC visitor spends four minutes and 16 seconds on the site.

By: yankinwaoz

yankinwaoz — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:04:57 +0000

What does “hang around the site for an average for 4:16″ mean? Does that mean the average visitor is here for 4 minutes and 16 seconds? Or is that some sort of ratio?

By: Wulv

Wulv — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:51:48 +0000

HAH 8 Listeners? I think you MAY be selling yourself short there.

I do love TTAC, when I started reading it, I could hit it up once a day easy, this gave me time to read the article and brows through all the comments. Keeping up now is getting harder and harder, you people are keeping me away from work!.

By: serpico

serpico — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:48:43 +0000

Dirty Harry ftw!

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:28:04 +0000

minion444 :

DON”T JUMP THE SHARK!

Ayyyyyyyyyyyy.

By: Michael Karesh

Michael Karesh — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:23:07 +0000

Great news, RF. I believe TTAC will continue to grow because:

1. The site continues to have a distinctive tone.

2. You haven’t tolerated personal attacks. This has kept discussion focused on the cars.

By: minion444

minion444 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:02:22 +0000

With all this popularity please remember….

DON”T JUMP THE SHARK!

By: eh_political

eh_political — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:06:10 +0000

RF,

I think TTAC could offer advertisers something fairly unique because your readership would tolerate a greater presence of ads, or at least one more clearly integrated with content.

This site is hypnotic, and ads seem to fade into the background. They cannot compete with the content. On the other hand, I would not object to seeing a full page ad for every link clicked. Or for reading additional pages of commentary. Or in order to add my own comments.

I suspect a majority of your readers would feel the same way. What’s more few competitors could actually employ the same model, because their content is too weak or generic.

By: David Holzman

David Holzman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:11:59 +0000

Paul, you’re a lucky guy to have a kid like that. I’m sure he gave you a run for your money!

By: ajla

ajla — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:42:23 +0000

The TTAC news blog and the podcasts are great.

Back before the blog started, I checked here once a week and commented about once a month. Now I usually show up everyday and almost always have something to comment about.

By: Paul Niedermeyer

Paul Niedermeyer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:25:33 +0000

Congratulations. I was just wondering about the latest stats.

I always knew Ted would fit in somewhere…can you imagine what it was like having a “discussion” with him as a teenager?