On Pageviews and a Web 2.0 World

Submitted by kpaul.mallasch on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 12:49pm.

The Star Press recently announced the appointment of a new executive editor. The previous Editor (Evan Miller) is now Director of Strategic Planning and Audience Development. What I wanted to point out is that Miller is praised for bringing The Star Press pageviews up from over 1 million per month in 2003 (when I was still there toiling) to almost 5 million this month. On the surface this sounds good, but it can be traced to just putting more content up there. The thing is, I've recently introduced a feature on the Muncie Free Press homepage that might hurt our "pageviews" a little. It will help make the site better for users, though.

I've started messing around with Yahoo UI, a very cool toolkit. I ran into some problems at first (javascript load order!! heh. took forever to track that down.) Anyway, one of the tabs on the homepage pulls up an iframe with the weather info - without reloading the page.

I remember when the obits were split to separate pages at The Star Press and the pageviews went up. Readers hated it, but the pageviews went up.

Anyway, just wanted some feedback really on the new AJAXy stuff on MFP. Just starting to get my feet wet, but I see possibilities for cool stuff.