http://disruptivethoughts.disqus.com/enSun, 19 Feb 2006 18:49:00 -0000http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/02/18/blog-design-differing-value-of-visitors/#comment-5730303<p>Kent Newsome has some good input and shares some observations from his own traffic. <a href="http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/design-rss-and-internet-explorer.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/design-rss-and-internet-explorer.shtml">You can read what Kent has observed over on his excellent blog, Newsome.org</a>.</p>FraserSun, 19 Feb 2006 18:49:00 -0000http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/02/18/blog-design-differing-value-of-visitors/#comment-5730302<p>Philipp, I don't think it was the coffee - I posted on a few thoughts that hadn't been fully processed by my brain (they still haven't).</p><p>What I've found interesting is that my traffic has experienced some nice growth over the past two weeks but subscriptions haven't grown at a similar rate (or, at the historical traffic/subscription level that I've noticed over the short history of my blog). This seemed odd to me until I realized that an oddly large portion of the traffic came from IE users --- and IE doesn't render my blog properly (dropping the "subscription option" to the bottom of the page).</p><p>A possible explanation, and one that may explain a portion of what's happening, but one that I don't believe offers the entire explanation.</p>FraserSun, 19 Feb 2006 18:45:55 -0000http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/02/18/blog-design-differing-value-of-visitors/#comment-5730304<p>Kent Newsome has some good input and shares some observations from his own traffic. <a href="<a href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="<a href="></a><a href="http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/design-rss-and-internet-explorer.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/design-rss-and-internet-explorer.shtml">http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/design-rss-and-int...</a>rel="nofollow"&gt;You can read what Kent has observed over on his e....</p>FraserSun, 19 Feb 2006 17:49:00 -0000http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/02/18/blog-design-differing-value-of-visitors/#comment-5730306<p>Philipp, I don't think it was the coffee - I posted on a few thoughts that hadn't been fully processed by my brain (they still haven't). What I've found interesting is that my traffic has experienced some nice growth over the past two weeks but subscriptions haven't grown at a similar rate (or, at the historical traffic/subscription level that I've noticed over the short history of my blog). This seemed odd to me until I realized that an oddly large portion of the traffic came from IE users --- and IE doesn't render my blog properly (dropping the "subscription option" to the bottom of the page). A possible explanation, and one that may explain a portion of what's happening, but one that I don't believe offers the entire explanation.</p>FraserSun, 19 Feb 2006 17:45:55 -0000http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/02/18/blog-design-differing-value-of-visitors/#comment-5730301<p>Hm, not quite sure what you're up to, here. Maybe I'm still just too tired (just having my 1st coffee over here) to get it.</p><p>Many RSS readers use the embedded IE WebBrowser widget. For example, I surf using Firefox, but I use RSS Bandit, which uses IE for integrated browsing.</p>Philipp SchumannSun, 19 Feb 2006 06:42:09 -0000http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/02/18/blog-design-differing-value-of-visitors/#comment-5730307<p>Hm, not quite sure what you're up to, here. Maybe I'm still just too tired (just having my 1st coffee over here) to get it. Many RSS readers use the embedded IE WebBrowser widget. For example, I surf using Firefox, but I use RSS Bandit, which uses IE for integrated browsing.</p>Philipp SchumannSun, 19 Feb 2006 05:42:09 -0000