Happy Cinco de Mustache, Nick! Thought it would be a great opportunity to share some of Cozy TV's website statistics with your friends at KF. Since you've thrown in the towel when it comes to breaking into the world of politics, we should sit down and evaluate your new project, the building up of Cozy.tv.
So it goes without saying that you have to be utterly deranged to think half a million people are going on Cozy.tv every single month. The premier show on the platform, Nick's 9 EST time slot, gets at most 3k live viewers. If 99% of his viewers were watching his show as a replay, which by the way is NOT a sign of a really engaged audience, that adds up to 300k people – the high end of his show's viewership is not even 75% of the alleged traffic. And this platform is reliable across the many different websites I have managed in my career.
Up to 40% of the traffic is coming from the iPhone applet assuming that the 60% market share of iPhone mobile web traffic holds true here. The applet has background refresh so I would not be so surprised if this contributes at all to the inflated site traffic. The insanely low bounce rate also seems to indicate possible duping. Streaming sites like Twitch boast low bounce rates already, as low as 30%, but 25% should raise red flags for sure. The fact that the platform's deduplication process knocks off a whopping 18% of alleged site traffic at the outset also indicates that this is not normal.
But don't take my word for it, there are some other obvious indications something funny is going on. Cozy.tv leverages a sister site, foxtrotstream.xyz, to host their images and some other media.
Seems awfully high for the hosting site, since most people would never inspect element and click on prd.foxtrotstream.xyz for no reason. And it seems like that's exactly what happened here given the amount of referral traffic:
You know who might do this, though? Bots, crawlers and web devs. Also not surprising then is a mirror site to Cozy.tv, Cozy.yt generating tons of traffic despite receiving no indication why or how it exists:
60k visits last month, with highly engaged users? What's going on? Probably just a tool for streaming on other platforms, unless the minified JS file says otherwise (see for yourself:
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js)
Curious also that the website which gets some half a million users per month has no search presence. You would think more than 0.1% of people would google "cozy tv" every once in a while to get to the website, especially considering the growth.
If this doesn't set off any alarms, the unrelated "COZI Tv" gets this many searches:
While getting this many visitors:
A more apt comparison might be Dlive. Dlive gets this many monthly searches:
While getting this many monthly visitors:
To summarize:
- Cozy.tv has some indications of bot traffic, including overly crawled supporting sites.
- Cozy.tv has the hallmarks of duping, including low search-to-visitor rates, low bounce rate and 18% of its traffic flagged as duplicate.
- Cozy.tv has weird stuff going on with its iPhone applet and mirror sites like Cozy.yt
- Half a million people are not tuning in to watch Nick on a regular basis, this is not in touch with reality
- Cozy.tv is the product of fraudulent web practices, incompetence or both
