How many people read Oots?

[silversaraph]

On a regular basis? Thread search fails me.

[Mystic Muse]

enough.post not long enough.

[Setra]

enough.post not long enough.

Never enough!

[NerfTW]

Do you mean "who also post on the forum"? Or do you just mean the numbers in general? For the latter, you're probably not going to get any answers short of emailing Mr. Burlew directly, but we can tell, since he makes a living off it, that the numbers must be pretty high.

[Comet]

[carlsagan]Millions and millions. [/carlsagan]

[monomer]

Well, Alexa doesn't explicitly state how many readers there are, it does show that OotS is the sixth moste visited comic strip online. It is also the 3260th most visited site in the US.

[ocdscale]

Or to put it another way, out of all the 'people on the internet', about 1.7% of them check out Giantitp.com.

So while Google.com is like California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, and Pennsylvania combined, Giantitp.com is like Minnesota (population ~5.2million).

Seems small only compared to a giant like Google. Compare it to Wizards.com (Virginia) and it's probably a middleweight.

[Hardcore]

Interestingly the rankings say it is very big in South Korea

[silversaraph]

Well, people who have clicked on it once on their I.P address and had it registered is not what I mean. I'm talking about regular readers, those who check and read the updates (not a one time archive breeze.)

I mean, I've read a lot of webcomics, but only a few do I regularly read instead of a one time marathon.

[Keldin]

Not enough -- get your friends to read it!!

[littlequietguy]

Me

[Setra]

VG cats is above OotS?

Bah

I'm also curious about xkcd being at the top.. Knowing that a lot of the people who like xkcd can probably do a lot of stuff that might fudge with the numbers, I must wonder if it's accurate..

Then again I'm paranoid, so that might be it too

[DarkElfGangsta]

{Scrubbed}
Chuck Norris

[ScottishDragon]

Good,if Chuck Norris reads Oots then its all good.

[Setra]

Good,if Chuck Norris reads Oots then its all good.

Well obviously Chuck Norris reads OotS, I mean the man who taught him everything he knows is in there.

[largertyler]

{Scrubbed}
Chuck Noriss

AH HA HA OH HO HO he he he ahhhh. (laughter)

[Turkish Delight]

Enough, apparently, to pay the bills.

[factotum]

Well, people who have clicked on it once on their I.P address and had it registered is not what I mean. I'm talking about regular readers, those who check and read the updates (not a one time archive breeze.)

The simple fact is that we can't answer that question. The only person who possibly could is The Giant, because he presumably has access to the web logs that show how many visits this site is receiving, but even then it would be difficult to figure out because the same person might come in on different IP addresses each time, making it impossible to trace how many times they've visited.

One fact is certain: the number of regular visitors will be greater than the total number of people signed up for the forums, and according to the info at the bottom of the page, there are currently 40,199 of those.

[RMS Oceanic]

I know I read it, and so does my brother. So at least 2.

[Yendor]

Four. Indications of any more are all part of an elaborate ruse.

[Keris]

While this information may well be woefully outdated by now (The Giant posted it back in '08), it might serve to give some indication of how much traffic OotS generates.

[The] last time this site got less than 6 million hits in a month was last September [2007], when I took a scheduled 3-week break. By my estimates, we have 250,000 regular check-every-strip readers, plus an uncountable number of casual readers.

[Morquard]

I'm also curious about xkcd being at the top.. Knowing that a lot of the people who like xkcd can probably do a lot of stuff that might fudge with the numbers, I must wonder if it's accurate..

I often find single xkcd strips inserted in wikis, blogs etc, because the topic of the article and the strip are somewhat related, but I'm not sure if that registers as a xkcd reader.

[Zherog]

On a regular basis? Thread search fails me.

I believe the scientific term is "metric ass ton."

[silversaraph]

Then it's definitely more than 250,000, if it was last year, unless the giant was "rounding" the figures a little. But man, does he seem pissed in that post you quoted.

Edit: Gah! And you can feel his eyes ripping out your spleen through the computer in the second one.

[Tyndmyr]

Four. Indications of any more are all part of an elaborate ruse.

The first rule of the elaborate ruse is not to talk about the elaborate ruse.

[Gamerlord]

Let us see, assuming everyone who ever registered on this forum at least once frequently read, that is at least 40,100+. Let us assume that at least 10 times that number reads it.

If he told us sales numbers on his books that would help.

[Elm11]

Well, Alexa doesn't explicitly state how many readers there are, it does show that OotS is the sixth moste visited comic strip online. It is also the 3260th most visited site in the US.

so, what you're saying is that GiTP is the most visited non-porn site in the U.S

I jest. Other than that, i know a fair number of people around canberra that read oots, however that will be biased since most of my friends are involved in the gaming community.

[Sewblon]

If you count my self-diagnosed-multiple-personality-disorder, that is at least ten people.

[itaibn]

The first rule of the {Scrubbed} is not to talk about mention the {Scrubbed}.

Fixed. There's a big difference between the two.

[TriForce]

Whats a Oots?