October 6, 2024


MILESTONES
Last month the site crossed 1 million visits in 2024 and 1.5 million visits in total, with the past 3 months being the highest in traffic (almost 150K a month). Add to that a slow growth in earnings via commissions and it was time to invest back into the site.


NEW SERVER & UPGRADES
Starting today, ScentAdvice is running from a different server/hosting provider. This should ensure the best performance and loading speeds possible for the site in its current state.

For now, performance has definitely improved, although it can be a bit inconsistent. During this month I’ll try to fine-tune it more. After the migration to a new server, there were some issues with thumbnails, which hopefully have been fixed, but if you see images on the site/app that aren’t loading, please reach out.


LOOK & FEEL
There have been some layout changes for the mobile and app visitors. The homepage has smaller tiles to display more at once, while clicking on New Releases now takes you to 15 per page (instead of 9) and visiting a specific brand will show you 30 of their fragrances per page (instead of 9), so you have to load less new pages.

The mobile site & app now also have the ScentAdvice logo up top, which will bring you back to the homepage.

The search bar stays visible on more pages on mobile, so you can directly look up a different fragrance, while you’re on another page. This in addition to last month’s upgrade to include instant search results, makes looking up fragrances a lot easier. At the time of writing, I disabled the thumbnails in the search bar, as those were causing issues that have not been resolved yet.


PATREON
It’s not all good news. I set up this Patreon page recently, mostly as a means to ‘donate with a little extra’, like polls, hoping that we could get a group of perhaps 10 active members at least. This hasn’t worked out yet, with 1-3 patreons so far. It will remain live for now, but if there aren’t any takers, I’ll take it down at the start of the new year, as I don’t want a single person to spend their money and not get anything meaningful from it. Or I will keep it open just for the updates & as donation, but without the other paid subscriptions.


BRANDS ADDED
Yves Rocher, Habibi NY, Santi Burgas, Alex+, Alchimista, Agarathi, Tola, Guy Laroche, Domaine Prive, Kate Spade, St Barth, E. Marinella, Al Haramain (partial), Swedoft, Sasva, Christina Aguilera, Atelier Vesper, Maison Matine, LM Parfums, Teddy The Perfumer, Abel, Francesca Dell’oro, Black Fades, Kintsugi Perfumes, Siuno, Naso di Raza, Vero Profumo, Reserve En Afrique, Bellekin, Frederico Cantelli, Le Persona, Woha Parfums, La Serra Profumi, Rito, KV by Kateryna Vel’Menko, Optico, Mezel, Scout Dixon West, YLEM Parfums, Elysian, Cerruti, Humiecki & Graef, Attar Al Has, Ahwaz, Hayari, Art de Parfum, Ffern, Edit(h), Michael Kors, Orientica, Nivea, Pierre Bourdon, Cult Gaia, Ghawali.


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