Comments on: A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad)

By: 6 Reasons Why Twitter Japan’s Subscription Model Might Work (In Japan)

6 Reasons Why Twitter Japan’s Subscription Model Might Work (In Japan) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:55:54 +0000

[...] Japanese social networks like Mixi or special interest sites such as super-popular recipe site Cookpad have been doing this for years (paying monthly unlocks premium features on both the mobile and [...]

By: Baking Chocolate Chip Cookies in Your Car - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com

Baking Chocolate Chip Cookies in Your Car - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:08:00 +0000

[...] The results: slightly crispy though nonetheless delicious cookies. And because everyone knows recipes equals page views… [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Three)

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:50:48 +0000

[...] website Nico Nico Douga. A-list blogger Dan Kogai pointed to the recipe site Cook Pad (which went public a few weeks ago) and Yahoo! Japan as stellar [...]

By: Digital East Asia » Blog Archive » Leading Japanese Recipe Website Plans To IPO In July

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:59:09 +0000

[...] reported by TechCrunch, the site primarily targets Japanese women in their 20s and 30s. It offers free basic memberships [...]

By: NVP

NVP — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:42:54 +0000

Nice one… Keep it up.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:55:30 +0000

Same here. My wife learned to cook from cookpad, and we met on mixi. Perl got me married and Ruby keeps me fed

By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:18:13 +0000

Wow! Never thought cooking can take you that far !!

By: Asiajin » Recipe Sharing Site Cookpad Goes IPO

Asiajin » Recipe Sharing Site Cookpad Goes IPO — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:27:24 +0000

[...] See Also: * Our previous article: Cookpad The Number One Recipe Site * TechCrunch article: A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad) [...]

By: Blake Williams

Blake Williams — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:42:44 +0000

My wife must account for at least 30 million of those monthly page views. Their site and recipes are fantastic.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:20:47 +0000

My wife uses this site all the time. That and Mixi…

By: kevinakiralee

kevinakiralee — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:44:31 +0000

Yes, but can they take on Cooking With Dog?

http://www.yout.../cookingwithdog

By: Tapas

Tapas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:57:12 +0000

These are impressive numbers, even for a recipe site of this size.

By: visualthings

visualthings — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:17:49 +0000

@Robin Wauters:

Here you go:
Unique visitors (estimated cookies): 5.1 M,
Unique visitors (users): 5 M,
Reach: 0.4%,
Page views: 230 M,
Total visits: 18 M,
Avg visits per visitor: 3.5,
Avg time on site: 11:00.

Source Google

By: We need better phrasing than “tech IPOs.” -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:00:41 +0000

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By: StoreCrowd

StoreCrowd — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:54:12 +0000

Another great website built in Rails

By: Windowslogy

Windowslogy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:47:29 +0000

Such a large number of page views are no surprise for this field of interest. Users might have browsed all other pages related to the ones they are interested in.

By: Robin Wauters

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:08:15 +0000

The amazing part is that ‘only’ 6.8 million unique visitors per month generate 351 million page views in the same period. Wow. Wonder how much time each users spends on the site on a daily basis.