RealRank Anomaly Afflicting DragonBlogger.com

7 December, 2009 - 04:12 PM - 2 Comments

I noticed my RealRank for dragonblogger.com plummeted the last few days after holding a steady < 300 rank for months, it dramatically skyrocketed. This happens while my Google Analytics traffic continues to show a 3-8% gain in traffic month after month and my site averaging around 400 unique visits per day from Google Analytics.

Yet my RealRank recently now only reflects around 26 unique visits per day which is 1/20th of what Google Analytics is reporting:

This has greatly hurt my blog rating on SocialSpark and IzeaRanks.com, so I opened a few cases with IZEA to help troubleshoot the issue. They have informed me that my page load times could be affecting the script ability to read traffic to my site, as a result I have taken drastic measures to improve my pageload time by cutting out all external calls I don’t think were essential. By removing my Entrecard Generator (temporary, until I can get it into its own static html page that doesn’t affect my blog), and removing my Digg.js, and other social submit buttons I was able to improve the page load times of this blog by 40%.

There is still some more tweaking, I am wondering if the 1.8 second page load time of the Entrecard badge is worth having anymore at this point, I also notice the Twittley and Tweetmeme plug-ins and buttons add almost 4 seconds pageload time between them.

I am continuing to search for new ways to improve my pageload performance, but it doesn’t help I keep suffering site outages from Dreamhost on top of my pageload issues.

-Dragon Blogger

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ConnieFoggles

It does take a while for your page to load for me. I can see the header and your posts but the sidebars take a while to load. This doesn't bother me but for non-bloggers this may be an issue. I don't know if this would be an issue with Real Rank either. I have never understood RR!
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Metallman

Hey there DB,

I had a similar issue last week, but has since then seem to have been rectified. I wonder if there is an issue with the script that keep track of our visitors. Izea Ranks show one set of numbers, while Social Spark shows another set. It's pretty odd and since my rank is suffering at SocialSpark but not with Izea Ranks. Later!
.-= MetallmanÂ´s last blog ..Motivational Sunday - Procrastination =-.