Madness

This is a graph of hits, page views, and unique visitors per month since the site first went up. Hits and page views are read against the left-hand scale, unique visitors are read against the right-hand scale. I've noted a few events that impacted traffic on the graph.

C6 Gallery Added - In June 2000 I added the first photo gallery on the site. The spike it represents is insiginificant on this graph, but at the time it was huge. Later that summer I reworked the code for the C6 gallery into the beginnings of the current Gothic BC photo gallery. The first pictures went in October 15th, 2000. In the summer of 2001 I finally got around to buying myself a half-decent camera and the gallery really started to take off (noting the big spike in unique visitors).

North Van. - Moving to North Vancouver in February 2002 sent the site as a whole into a bit of a nose-dive. For a number of reasons it was nearly the end of Gothic BC.

Goth-Block Fire - In October 2002 I moved back into town, and despite the building I moved into nearly burning down two weeks later and there being no power for over a week, things started to build again as I was more involved in the scene again. Things started growing pretty steadily again.

Newspapers - But the last six month the site has really begun to take off. The catalyst for this, ironically, was a bunch of bad press fuelled by ignorant sensationalism.