Time once again for another edition of Measuring the Webcomic Audience. Last month we explored some of the tools and methods developed by the blogging community, in particular the use of links between sites to rank blogs.
For this month's edition of our measurement project we again rely on information from Ranking.com and Alexa.com. We calculated a score for each webcomic based on their rankings for unique visitors, page views, and new for this month, links. For example, Penny Arcade ranked first for unique visitors, page views and for the number of sites linking into the Penny Arcade website.
As always, this project is in beta so please provide feedback on any aspect of our efforts. We have also continued to add webcomics to our watchlist. As before, this list only ranks those webcomics actually on our watchlist. To the extent that we are missing a webcomic on our watchlist that potentially would place on our most-read list, we rely on you, the readers, to bring it (them) to our attention.
For this list's edition only one comic slid off the rankings: Get Your War On, but in part because we expanded the rankings to 20 slots, a number of new comics make their first appearance on the list including, Diesel Sweeties, Little Gamers, White Ninja Comics and Broken Saints
List 0.3
| Rank | Name | URL | Last List | Time on Chart |
| 1 | Penny Arcade | penny-arcade.com | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Mega Tokyo | megatokyo.com | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Sinfest | sinfest.net | 6 | 3 |
| 4 | Sluggy Freelance | sluggy.com | 7 | 3 |
| 5 | 8 Bit Theatre | nuklearpower.com | 4 | 3 |
| 6 | Mac Hall | machall.com | 11 | 3 |
| 7 | RPG World | rpgworldcomic.com | 12 | 3 |
| 8 | Exploding Dog | explodingdog.com | 5 | 3 |
| 9 | Real Life | reallifecomics.com | 8 | 3 |
| 10 | Mall Monkeys | mallmonkeys.com | 10 | 2 |
| 11 | User Friendly | userfriendly.org | 9 | 3 |
| 12 | Player VS Player | pvponline.com | 3 | 3 |
| 13 | Bob and George | bobandgeorge.com | – | 2* |
| 14 | Errant Story | errantstory.com | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | Avalon High | avalonhigh.com | 13 | 2 |
| 16 | Diesel Sweeties | dieselsweeties.com | – | 1 |
| 17 | Little Gamers | little-gamers.com | – | 1 |
| 18 | Movie Comics | movie-comics.com | – | 2* |
| 19 | White Ninja Comics | whiteninjacomics.com | – | 1 |
| 20 | Angst Technology | inktank.com | – | 2* |
| 20 | Broken Saints | brokensaints.com | – | 1 |
* Non-consectutive appearances.
Watch List
absurdnotions.org
acidrefluxcomic.com
adventurers-comic.com
alicecomics.com
aliendice.com
americanelf.com
angels2200.com
antiheroforhire.com
ashfieldonline.com
avalonhigh.com
awesomegamerz.com
bobandgeorge.com
boxjamsdoodle.com
briworld.com
brokensaints.com
brunostrip.com
brunothebandit.com
butternutsquash.net
choppingblock.org
clanofthecats.com
crfh.net
crtlaltdel-online.com
cutewendy.com
dieselsweeties.com
electriksushi.com
elflife.com
elgoonishshive.com
errantstory.com
everythingjake.com
explodingdog.com
faans.com
funnyfarmcomics.com
gamingguardians.com
geeksalad.net
genecatlow.com
goats.com
gpf-comics.com
greystoneinn.net
hookedoncomics.com
houndshome.com
inktank.com
inniesandouties.com
itswalky.com
justanothervice.com
kevinandkell.com
kidradd.com
killroyandtina.com
little-gamers.com
lizardcomics.com
lookwhatibroughthome.com
lostandfoundcomic.com
machall.com
mallmonkeys.com
man-man.org
megatokyo.com
melonpool.com
meninhats.com
mnftiu.cc
movie-comics.com
mrbang.net
narbonic.com
newshounds.com
nightlightpress.com
pnes.com
nuklearpower.com
orneryboy.com
owliecomics.com
ozyandmillie.org
penny-arcade.com
purplepussy.net
pvponline.com
queenofwands.net
reallifecomics.com
roadwaffles.com
robotstories.com
rpgworldcomic.com
samandfuzzy.com
scarygoround.com
schlockmercenary.com
sexylosers.com
sinfest.net
sluggy.com
snafu-comics.com
soaprope.com
supercomics.com
superosity.com
surburbanjungle.com
tasteslikegravel.com
theaterhopper.com
tmcm.com
truenuff.com
ubersoft.net
unlikeminerva.com
userfriendly.org
wanderingones.com
whiteninjacomics.com
wigu.com
youdamnkid.com
zortic.com
zwol.org
For what it’s worth I see Keenspot has 4 comics on the list and 1 former comic on the list. DayFree Press has one comic. I think the rest are fairly described as independents.
I’m pretty dang certain it would.
http://www.squidi.net gets a lot of hits also.
Put Something Positive on your list – it’s got a lot of readers, I believe, and would probably pop up there somewhere – http://www.somethingpositive.net
I’d happily note that the All New Adventures of the Slug is currently burning up the servers with a total of 10 readers. Makes me happy I waited eight months for Keenspace.
You’re right – that’s a big goof up not to include.
how about http://www.stripteasecomic.com
it’s been around for a while and has a pretty descent fan base I think