MicroGroks
The support from our readers has been humbling. Thank you for helping to facilitate this transition and to ensure that GraniteGrok can move forward instead of backward. We’ve passed 20% of the goal, but we still have a ways to go.
Did you know that GraniteGrok is on the edge of an existential crisis? Okay, that’s a bit hyperbolic, but we are confronted with a situation that could handicap our ability to deliver content the way we have in the past on the cusp of another significant election year.
Our apologies for the downtime. We’ve had a surge of traffic today focused on a handful of new articles, and the volume pulled us off a cliff. We’re back and going to have to add some bandwidth, and all I have to say is, Thank You!
Continuing to dominate the political bandwidth in New Hampshire means we try things, and they do not always work as planned. Auto-opening in a new tab when you click any link, for example. We did away with that after a month or so.
We like to talk a bit about our local Alexa rank, and we are due for another one of those updates in a few days, but this “look” focuses on something we do not mention as much.
In the blink of an internet eye, and more often than ever, we are able to take stories nationally. It could be a Grok author or an Op-Ed but this is happening with greater frequency. Just imagine your stuck-up school board story going national? Do you like that idea? Well, here’s how you can help.
The year of our Lord 2021 has been good to the ‘Grok pageview-wise. While we typically trade first and second place for the most online print-media traffic in New Hampshire with the Manchester Union Leader, this year’s been a bit different.
If you find this site momentarily inaccessible, keep trying. We are in the process of dealing with some back-end changes to improve page-load speed. We’ve got a few ideas including changing features to the home page that may be dragging on page load time.
We appreciate the time you spend with us. Your comments, tips, leads, and links (even though we can only get to a fraction of them), are invaluable. But we are looking for the next step. What can we do to elevate the experience?
It’s the end of the year, and we’re at the end of the top ten. Our annual look at what you, our readers, spent the most time, well, reading. What got the most page views from among the 4600 odd new publish posts for 2020?
