Well, thanks a bloody lot, all you fans of Naked Gardening! We now understand the true power of the internet.
The Jobbie Crew did a post last week about the “12th annual World Naked Gardening Day” which will be held on Saturday, May 7th, 2016.
The post bizarrely enough literally became a global viral sensation overnight for reasons unknown to us. We are glad to see there is such enthusiasm for gardening!
Here’s the post:
http://jobbiecrew.com/world-naked-gardening-day/
Normally, we average about 50,000 new viewers per month from over 160+ countries, including all 50 states in the United States.
Over the past 7 days, we have had well over 500,000+ visitors to the website! We have been averaging 500-700 new visitors per minute!
Our peak was on Thursday, when we had 144,000 people on the website at the same time, that’s when everything crashed.
We had so many new visitors that our hosting company took the website offline for a few days. Yes, this tidal wave of web traffic overloaded the server to the point where they had to shut us down because our website was draining the bandwidth from their entire datacenter!
Here are current statistics of JobbieCrew.com visitors:
Top 10 Countries
- USA = Michigan, Texas, California, Florida, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Columbus, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
- Canada = Ontario, BC, Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia
- UK = England = London
- Australia = Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria
- South Africa = Gauteng
- France = Paris
- Germany = Bavaria, Berlin
- Mexico = Mexico City, Jalisco
- India = Delhi
- Italy = Rome, Milan
Top 10 US Cities
- Michigan = Detroit/ Ann Arbor
- Texas = Houston/ Dallas
- California = Los Angeles/ San Francisco
- Florida = Jacksonville/ Miami
- New York = NYC
- Illinois = Chicago
- Ohio = Columbus
- Georgia = Atlanta
- North Carolina = Charlotte
- Pennsylvania = Philadelphia
Top 10 Cities in Michigan
- Detroit
- Ann Arbor
- Grand Rapids
- Madison Heights
- Dearborn
- Sterling Heights
- Clinton Township
- New Baltimore
- Warren
- Plymouth
Assorted JobbieCrew.com User Stats
- Most users: 21-55 years old
- Top browsers = Chrome and Safari
- Top operating systems = iOS, Android, Windows
- 85% of traffic is from mobile phones
- Most people find JobbieCrew.com on social media (Facebook), Direct (they type in the weblink), organic search (searching keywords on Google)
- Our top social media platforms: Facebook, Pintrest, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Tumblr, FB Apps, Kontakte (Russia), StumbleUpon
- We also have a large and growing fanbase in Russia, China, Brazil, and several other countries.
What our website experienced, essentially, was an unintentional crowd-sourced DDOS attack. So, due to this insane increase in web traffic (which we love, by the way), we are in the process of upgrading to a scalable cloud-based hosting plan designed for heavy-traffic websites. Here’s what we learned:
Most Important Things Your Website Must Have:
- Fast overall speed, especially page loading. Ideal load time is 1-2 seconds. This can be achieved through proper Scaling (the ability to support any traffic load) from your web host.
- Quality content.
- 99% Up-Time. We have found that any sort of downtime, however negligible, will affect your reputation and the loyalty of your fanbase.
All of these qualities and more combine to ensure The Consistency of Peak Performance.
We here at The Jobbie Crew in Detroit LOVE ALL OF OUR FANS! We love you guys and girls out there, thank you so much for your support! We will continue bringing you awesome content and fun events!
Catch us live in-person at Jobbie Nooner, The Raft Off, Brown’s Bar annual Halloween Party, Detroit Tigers Opening Day, Detroit’s Marche du Nain Rouge, St. Patty’s Day in downtown Detroit and more!