cohost accounts for half of the traffic to my patreon posts now lmao
listen i can't tell you that this is like, solid data it's extremely circumstantial to the type of artist i am, the exisiting audience i have, etc etc but like... 49% is pretty nuts! functionally half of traffic to my posts, meaning people either looking to get updates or sign up, are from here
i will also add the caveat that i don't add links to my posts on twitter, not because they get deprioritized but because people will see a link and immediately ignore whatever the post is about it's how twitter has trained its users over time. art posts with links do worse because the link makes the post look ugly. so there's potentially a chunk of traffic missing here. i'm gonna try linking a bit and see how this ends up changing but yeah.
thought it'd be worth sharing!
edit: to clarify the 3rd paragraph a bit, there is definitely data that's "missing" from twitter since i don't actively link there like i do on cohost but my patreon is also doing ok! my numbers are stable and i get new sign-ups here and there that make up for people who leave for whatever reason. that's kind of the thing that's got me feeling pretty ok is that whatever i lost there by sheer volume of views, i've seemingly made up here by people who actually care to see the stuff i'm posting.
that is a conversion rate of
an
incredible
1.8%
of views
and that's to a link aggregator too so links to patreon are a fraction of that 2%.
For something like instagram I'd say that 2% is probably like... fine considering how dismal the platform is at encouraging users to click/find any links but I also have 30000 followers there so hopefully that adds additional context to how meaningful that 49% of traffic that cohost occupies
