Which regions in the world are most active on tapastic?

[monotone_ink]

I'm just wondering which parts of the world are most active here on tapastic. I live in Australia, but sometimes I feel that there is nothing here in terms of internet activity (you could say the same in terms of land mass too).

I'm betting that areas like North America are most active, but I just want to know what everyone else thinks (in actual truth, I just want to find the right times to post my comics)

[J.Lovelace]

I think Europe and North America

[sparky1505]

I've heard that the best rule of thumb is just to schedule it at a normal time in PST. So when you schedule it, it will schedule it in PST, and you dont have to then convert it to your time zone, just put a normal time. I hear the best times are like 10 in the morning or 3 in the afternoon, but you might want to look into that more. So yeah western America would be the most active.

[chinsau]

i think is more on Europe

[GoldenPlume]

Traffic data courtesy of SimiliarWeb.com:

1. United States, 38.31%
2. United Kingdom, 5.39% (Apricot Cookies, Silversong, Engelbaum)
3. Canada, 4.63% (Blackberry Tea, Cheer Up Emo Kid, That Professional Idot)
4. Brazil, 4.62% (Fufunholand, Four Leaf AKA Cuatro Hojas, Coffee)
5. Germany, 3.90% (Akihabara Tales, Massu: Blacksmith's Daughter, Green & Gold)

And some examples of various comics from outside the United States.

[sainity]

Those sites aren't reliable at all and even if that were true we have to look at the ratios. Canada has about 10% the population of usa so they would be actually at 46.3% if they had the same population. So I'd say Canada is the most active country per capita. Your comment is also quite rude towards those people outside of usa. You do know that? As if it were obvious that there are comics from usa and not from other countries. I just checked and you are from usa, sigh, confirmation bias.

[popsiclestick]

i think they were just promoting some non-american comics? it's always nice to have a shoutout. not rly sure where you're coming from?

[zerofruits]

You can check public stats like alexa.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tapastic.com

You can also see, which rank tapastic has within a specific country.
(And tapastic ranks higher in the us than in the other top countries as well)

Of course for more detailed traffic data, we'd have to look inside tapastic's analytics data haha

[Devika]

@GoldenPlume @zerofruits Cool, statistics! Averaging the two sets, it seems about 40% of users are from the states... That's pretty much the impression I get from the forums too. So flipping that around, 60% not from the states makes this forum pretty diverse!

@sainity Dude, it's not a contest xD And nobody was being rude here, quite the opposite. But hey, it'd be interesting to see some stats adjusted for population too, so go ahead and share if you feel like doing some more maths!

[sainity]

I just... I think I'll just get out of here, I am not going to let you troll me.

[chinsau]

Thanks for the info

[scroll]

I was just thinking about stats like this. Has Tapstic shared any stats with creators? I would not only be interested in what parts of the world use Tapstic, but drill down to age, genre preference etc.

I am also wondering about the mobile/website ratio. I'm producing a Webtoon so I don't often consider any potential web browser readers, it's aimed for mobile. If that isn't the case with Tapastic readers, then I'm on the wrong platform.

(Would be great if we could get more detailed stats on our dashboard.)

[GoldenPlume]

What numbers Tapastic has, they are keeping pretty close to the vest, which is why we have to use SimilarWeb as a round about way of figuring things out. So that everyone knows, not sharing numbers is a VERY common practice in the publishing industry and most publishers guard their data fiercely. Since traffic is their livelihood, and image is everything, putting out specific traffic data is like opening your wallet up for other publishers to put their fingers into. If your traffic is less than expected, advertisers are going to spend less, if your traffic is higher than expected, someone is going to try to create a similar product to steal part of your pie.

What we'd really like to have on our dashboard is something similar to what Kickstarter offers where you can see where your traffic is coming from and how many of them "pledge" or in our case "subscribe". It would definitely help us figure out what marketing is the most effective for our series (f.e. Facebook vs. Twitter). Having just concluded a sizable Project Wonderful ad campaign, better data would help us figure out if to renew it or not. Not having adequate tools means a lot of guesswork for creators.