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Yesterday I was doing a little analysis of the statistics behind dPS as I did a little planning for the coming months on the site and as I looked at them I realised that some of what I was seeing would probably be interesting for you our readership.
I’ll share a few of the stats below – but I thought that of particular interest to newer readers of dPS would be our a list of our most read tutorials and tips. Here are the Top 13
- Wedding Photography – 21 Tips for Amateur Wedding Photographers
- How to Make an Inexpensive Light Tent
- 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures POP!
- 21 Great Reader Shots [And How They Were Taken]
- The Rule of Thirds
- How to Photograph Fireworks
- How to Choose a DSLR Camera
- Should You Buy a DSLR or Point and Shoot Digital Camera?
- Introduction to Shutter Speed
- 11 Landscape Photography Tips
- Portrait Photography Tips
- 5 Black and White Photography Tips
- An Introduction to Food Photography
A few other stats that readers might be interested in:
dPS was founded in April 2006. We started tracking visitors using our current stats package in January 2007. Since that time:
- 37,973,318 people have visited our site
- those readers have viewed 123,543,058 pages of content
- in the last week we signed up our 400,000th subscriber (this is a combined total of email and RSS subscribers – it goes up and down a little from day to day) – If you’re not yet subscribed you can do so here.
- our forum now has 87,837 members, 98,196 threads of conversation and 886,588 posts on it.
- our facebook page has 9,207 fans
- our twitter account is followed by 22,857 people
- on Flickr we have a dPS group with 10,269 members (they’ve shared 76,724 photos)
- our biggest source of traffic has been Google (33%), followed by our friends at the bookmarking sites StumbleUpon and Digg (thanks to everyone who bookmarks our site) and one of our favourite blogs – Lifehacker.
- we have published 1569 tips and tutorials on the main blog section of dPS.
While it feels like we’ve been around for a long time we’re a relatively new site in the photography niche. We’re by no means the biggest around but it’s exciting to be a part of something that has experienced real growth and that seems to be helping people.
How You Can Help dPS Grow
The main reason that dPS has grown to the point that it has is that over the last 4 years our community has been incredibly active in contributing to and promoting our site. We’ve seen this in a number of ways including groups of people who have:
- Volunteered the write tutorials
- Volunteered to moderate our forums
- Linked to dPS from their own sites, blogs, photoblogs, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook Accounts
- Forwarded our newsletters onto friends
- Left helpful and encouraging comments on our tutorials or in our forums
- Bought one of our Photography E-Books
We greatly appreciate your help in these (and other) ways. Big or small – your contributions are (and will continue to be) valued.
I think the admin of this web page is actually working hard for his site,
as here every data is quality based data.
Good day! This is kind of off topic but I need some advice from
an established blog. Is it very hard to set up your own blog?
I'm not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty quick. I'm thinking about creating my own but
I'm not sure where to start. Do you have any points or suggestions? Appreciate it
this actually works . your the best keep up the work. by the way my name is breanne and you should give great tips how to work a camrea. i have one and yes i know how to work it. but i want to know if you know how to do background for the camrea
I have learned so much from this site. Photography has been a passion of mine since I was a little girl. My husband recently bought me a new camera and I use it all the time! Looking forward to reading more on your site :)
I'm a hockey mom, looking for tips on taking photos in arenas. I have a Nikkon D80. My pics are always so dark, arena don't have good lighting.
Hello, could someone please tell me how you change your settings to a 2 frame setting, I have a Sony a290, thanks!
Cool post, and thanks for sharing, going to try out a few shortly!
I have read every one of those. They have been a big help in getting me to the point I am at now.
Thanks for the venue to learn.
Flickr:
http://bit.ly/oufr4c
DPS has been my most important resource on photography, I have learned so much and am still learning from this great site.Thanks to the guys @ DPS for such dedication on keeping this site running .More grease to your elbows.
A superb source of information for both beginners and professionals
Dear Darren,
Thank you for this Great site!
Find highly professional answers to all questions related to my hobby photography.This site has given me new contacts and friends from around the world. Good work of professional team who works for the site is responsible for a steady rise in his popularity.
Good luck!
Dear Darren,
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, I have learn so much from the day I join to DPS and I love your site. I stay in Vietnam and I hope one day I can visit you in Australia.
There are some useful tutorials here, especially the Photoshop one(for making the subject stand out). Thanks a lot. I love making postcards with photos from http://www.psprint.com/postcards and sending them to people I know.
I love this site! I use it so much, it has been a staple in my unanswered questions on photography.
And a great tool to view others photographs,and that gives me inspiration.
I really look forward to seeing each weeks new post!
Thanks Darren!
Thanks for the great articles about photography. I am at beginner level in SLR photography and learning lots and lots of ideas, tips and tricks about handling camera and making pictures. This site has been a big resource to learn something extra about camera stuff. Thanks to DPS authors, who shares tips about photography.
Great summary, great links, and congratulations! I've researched other photography forums and haven't been interested in joining any beyond dPS because they simply do not "measure up" to dPS standards.
I am following DPS on Twitter and every day, I check out the newest tips. I find most of them very helpful and written so that anyone can understand them. I'm glad to have found you. For the life of me, I don't remember how I did though. :)
Darren,
Congrats on the success and best of luck with future growth of the site. It's one fantastic resource.
How about posting a list of topics you'd like to see tutorials on or better yet post a blog entry soliciting what the readers want to learn about. If there's something I have the knowledge to write about I'd be happy to do it for DPS.
Love this most popular photography tips. Keep blogging and thanks for sharing!!!!!!!
Love the "How to Photograph .." tips.
I have added a link to DPS from by blog... how do I link to dps from my facebook page?
You have a great site here. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations. I am in a few of those stats (twitter, newsletter, RSS feed) so does that make me a contributor? lol I also provide a link to your site from mine.
I come back because this site provides great content. Keep up the great work and I am sure your stats will continue to grow!
Thanks for the links Darren there's a few there that I haven't read yet!
Congrats on the stats - Wow... there's bigger photography blogs than this???
Glad to be a part of it - I think you're an excellent resource for beginning photographers, and useful to photographers of any level. I often point folks to your site, and have your feed display on the front page of my own site.
Thanks for creating a great site that's bound to grow even more - keep up the good work, and of course I'll keep coming back!
Congratulation from Slovakia! This is awsome goals! Always when i read your web i am really excited. Learned me many things about a photography . Thank you!