Sometimes Chris, Brett, and I feel like we get no press love for AppStoreHQ. We’re the biggest app discovery service, yet others are being covered way more frequently by the “elite” tech blogs. Truth be told, however, in less than a year we’ve received some great coverage, so we’re not complaining one bit; we just think we have such a great service with awesome features that solve real problems for users and developers (we’re passionate like that).
I thought it’d be somewhat interesting to see the relative effects of some of the bigger, more respected journalists and sites who have linked to us over the last 6-8 months. Below is that graph. I’ve labeled the source, the date, and whether the link was “primary” (that is, the article was about AppStoreHQ or app discovery and included us) or “secondary” (the link is probably just to an app detail page or something similar). I summed the amount of traffic we received in the 7 days after each link was published.
There’s a lot of interesting data in there, in my opinion. First, TechCrunch is obviously big, but Boing Boing blows it out of the water in terms of traffic sent. NYTimes Gadgetwise is large, but I would’ve expected larger. I imagine a link from their newspaper articles would be tremendous. Then there are some surprises, like how much traffic Pocketgamer sent, or how little Hacker News sent (we’ve been on the front page a few times; I chose the time with the most traffic sent). Granted, we were never #1 on Hacker News, so I bet that contributes to it.
Interesting stuff. I’d love to hear how this compares to your experiences, and which sites sent the most/least traffic for you.
