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traveler1116

« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2012, 16:22 »
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I don't know how any of this is relevant but looking at google trends http://www.google.com/trends/?q=istockphoto.com,+shutterstock.com&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 it shows ranking by country with the top ten for
SS: India, Pakistan, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Ukraine, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ireland, And Greece. 
While IS has: Canada, USA, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, India, Austria, Switzerland, And Netherlands.

I'm not sure what this means but I find it hard to believe that there are many buyers in Pakistan.

lisafx

« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2012, 16:45 »
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It's interesting to keep track of the rankings.  It appears that Istock hasn't fallen as much as SS is risen.  I don't know how to interpret that except maybe that existing Istock customers are staying with them but the new business is going to SS?

« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2012, 17:13 »
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If we factor in the amount of contributors visit to these pages to these rankings, these stats may be useless.
First we need to find out how many contributors each site has in relevance to the buyers. Then figure out a way to differentiate page views between buyers and contributors. I almost think most of these hits come from contributors checking their daily downloads.

« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2012, 17:17 »
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I used to check into my istock downloads all the time 2-3 yrs ago... These days i check in once or twice a day. Isn't that less page views just from me? If you times that by a thousand other contributors, you get the picture.

« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2012, 20:43 »
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and what about all the bots scraping data for the microstock data sites? how is that figured?

« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2012, 22:07 »
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If we factor in the amount of contributors visit to these pages to these rankings, these stats may be useless.
First we need to find out how many contributors each site has in relevance to the buyers. Then figure out a way to differentiate page views between buyers and contributors. I almost think most of these hits come from contributors checking their daily downloads.


According to findex.org, SS's secure subdomain secure.shutterstock.com accounts  for a small % of SS's PageViews. I am not sure how accurate the site is, however it gives you some indication of the numbers you are looking for.  

Istock has roughly 1/4 the unique visitors, however more buyers make it to the secure area.

  secure.shutterstock.com  0.92 %

  secure.istockphoto.com     4.71 %



http://www.findex.org/www.shutterstock.com

Subdomains    % PageViews
  shutterstock.com   87.83 %
  image.shutterstock.com   9.24 %
  submit.shutterstock.com   8.24 %
  footage.shutterstock.com   2.87 %
  secure.shutterstock.com   0.92 %
  affiliate.shutterstock.com   0.4 %
  admin.shutterstock.com   0.28 %



http://www.findex.org/www..istockphoto.com

Subdomains    % PageViews
  istockphoto.com   93.27 %
  secure.istockphoto.com   4.71 %
  deutsch.istockphoto.com   3.6 %
  francais.istockphoto.com   1.53 %
  espanol.istockphoto.com   1.2 %
  nihongo.istockphoto.com   0.99 %
  italiano.istockphoto.com   0.95 %
  portuguesbrasileiro.istockphoto.com   0.6 %
  russki.istockphoto.com   0.43 %
  jezykpolski.istockphoto.com   0.4 %
« Last Edit: August 04, 2012, 23:50 by gbalex »

« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2012, 01:17 »
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gbalex, are you saying only buyers go into the secure subdomains of the sites? Im not understanding your point. Im not sure about shutterstock but i have to log into my istock account as do most buyers and contributors.

« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2012, 11:10 »
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gbalex, are you saying only buyers go into the secure subdomains of the sites? Im not understanding your point. Im not sure about shutterstock but i have to log into my istock account as do most buyers and contributors.

Typically websites use the secure area to process transactions. So essentially the secure subdomain is used by the shopping cart!


 

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