somniloquence

The amount of hits on the main page vs. the amount of hits on the vids page is hugely different -- meaning that people are going to the page, seeing the password request, and leaving without following through. I'm terrible at math, but one day I tried to figure this out, and it looks like for every 100 hits the page receives when I upload a new vid and/or someone mentions it in a rec or link, I get possibly 3 password requests from new people and nine or ten DLs from people who already have it.

This is the source of my anguish -- the cost benefit ratio is really low, not enough visits to the site means I'm paying for more availability than is warranted, and people will not, generally, go forward if they have to do anything else besides click.

And a lot of this stems from my being an old vidder -- we used to send off SASEs for things, send MOs and checks and get PO Boxes and all manner of things to buy vid tape collections... and now people won't even take an extra step to click on a link for a freaking PW. Sometimes this is hard for me to absorb.