How did Milenyo affect your traffic?

Was doing rounds on all the blogs and websites I handle and noticed varying effects on site traffic due to the Luzon-wide blackout caused by the recent typhoon, Milenyo. Depending on where most of your visitors comes from, it could really kill your traffic like a swarm of locust in the middle of the night.

See some screenshots below:

The last one is for my blog here and looks like it’s down by 20% and feed readers by only 10%. Likewise, revenues are down by 40%.

ABS CBN reporter RG Cruz, texted me that only about 30% of power has been restored in Luzon and full restoration is expected by Sunday. That means we’re having some partial rest away from work ’til then. If only there’s running water around. *hay*

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

13 Comments

Manuel Viloria says:

18 years ago

Hi Abe… Looks like regardless of normal traffic above 1,200 the usual traffic of blogs hovered at the 1,200 level. Perhaps, except for the loyal 1200, most of our visitors were busy looking for water? :-)

Radio station comentaristas would often ask: “Nakaligo na ba kayo?” while some folks would be seen in the streets, running after “free” water trucks deployed by some electoral candidates.
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Abe Olandres says:

18 years ago

@ Manuel

Hahaha, me too! No electricity, no internet, no wifi. I’m wifi wardriving whole day. Some coffee shops in Glorietta are open and I’m at Starbucks, Bluewave near MoA now.
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Andrew says:

18 years ago

My sites are affected up to now. Traffic down by about 20-30%.
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leo says:

18 years ago

My traffic is down by at 20-30% and revenues by 20% starting the other day. But it’s slowly picking up late today.
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Noemi says:

18 years ago

my personal blog increased dramatically because it got featured in breaking news
http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=23855

I had to give instructions to my sys admin to watch the server since I didn’t have internet connection earlier
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JP Loh says:

18 years ago

I hope more bloggers can share their “coverage” of the typhoon…

Meanwhile, I’m using Ning for the wrong purpose as an experiment.

http://milenyo.ning.com/
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Kiven says:

18 years ago

no effect whatsoever. had a 2 trees almost crash down on me though. lol
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Sidney says:

18 years ago

“Likewise, revenues are down by 40%”.

No beer and pulutan for you this month ;-)
More luck next month !
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What's UP, Los BaÃ±os? says:

18 years ago

Milenyo drove my traffice like crazy! I started blogging just last month, and since Thursday last week had around 300 site visits. My site focuses on UPLB alumni and so I posted photographs of the UPLB campus after the typhoon. I was just dreaming I could have a thousand visit by Sept 30. Word got around and a lot of alumni were interested to look at how the campus was affected. I had exponential growth since then. From an average of only 30 visits per day, I have now an average of 70 visits per hour or 300 page views per day. I had almost a thousand visits yesterday.

It’s overwhelming for me as I just started blogging. At the same its good to meet fellow UPLB alumni, albeit on the web.
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Lito Montala says:

18 years ago

Hi Yuga,

I have that experience too, a sudden drop of traffic! “nakupo!” I lost 30% of visitors on that last week of september. Anyway I’m glad the traffic is restored again probably due to the restoration of power.
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