Our reviewers weren't particularly excited about Olga the Traveling Bra. There weren't a lot of strong feelings about the content either way, and they seemed to actively dislike the template and layout. Still, it ended up with a 50, which is a decent score.
| Category | Score | Points |
| Content | 5.1 | 36/70 |
| Writing | 5.3 | 3/5 |
| Web Design | 5.25 | 3/5 |
| Intangibles | 4.2 | 2/5 |
| Read Regularly | 3 | 3/10 |
| Frequency | 6 | 3/5 |
| Total |
| 50 |
Percentile Rank: 20 Let's start with the good. One reviewer thought it was hilarious:
Very bizarre and unusual but I just can't stop laughing. Some of you may think, "What's the point? It doesn't make any sense." But really, does it have to?
A few others were positive, if less enthusiastic:
I like Olga's blog. She's a master (mistress?) at puns. Her blog is not especially hilarious, nor do I think she intends it to be, but it is easy to read and enjoyable just for the sense of fun. I surely do wish I could travel the way her bra does. And I mean that in all possible ways.
Definitely an interesting read and the pictures alone are worth a visit. It reads like she has a great personality which is always a plus. It's always great to be able to add another blog to my feeds list.
The author sounds creative and light-hearted. The blog carries with it sensible and humorous description of some hilarious pictures. Interesting. But, is the blog only about bra? I find 'bra' as a too dominating subject of the blog.
The rest were not overly impressed, although people did seem to like the title:
From the posts that I read she seemed to have more about what awards she had one as opposed to actual stories about the bra but I guess when your bra isn't traveling, you have to fill the gaps in with something, huh?
The pictures on this blog should speak for themselves. After all, isn't a picture worth a thousand words? I could live happily without the commentary. This person could be Can I Haz Cheezeburger? and make $20K a month like they do.
The best title of any blog around. But flea powder in my granny's bra is funnier.
I think it's a nice little blog, but the bra shtick wore a little thin for me after a while. And is it really a humor blog?
First and foremost, I truly love the name of this blog. So I clicked on the link anticipating a few perky and/or uplifting posts. I suppose that's what I found, but why didn't I laugh as much as I did every time I looked at the title?
I didn't "get" it. Sorry.
This is a PG-13 version of Flat Stanley and while the pictures themselves amuse, it didn't get more than a smile at the concept. Olga didn't bring us to a higher level of appreciation of why a brassier being immortalized across the world can bring about world peace or at least, world wide web amusement.
Not very imaginative. I feel like it's a rip off of the traveling gnome.
This blog is cute, but the concept may not stand the test of time. I view it as more of a novelty blog rather than one with content that will keep me interested in coming back on a regular basis.
Just about everybody hated the layout. The "Web Design" score doesn't really reflect it, but I'm guessing that the overall score was dragged down quite a bit by the layout, judging by the comments:
Way too many links. Who cares?
Perhaps because I found it difficult to actually focus on the writing, what with all the distractions. There's a lot going on in the sidebar -- as well as throughout the posts.
The only thing that I might mention as a distraction is that her blog seems to be a bit too much of a "gateway" elsewhere. Olga seems to have a lot of friends (always a good thing) and a lot of interests. Maybe I just have trouble keeping them separated from her writing.
Expanding the content wrapper a little wouldn't hurt, especially considering there's so much crammed into such a little space. Not that it's hard to read, it's just a little cluttered.
Olga's site doesn't have the best template going (it's a standard Blogger.com layout which doesn't normally bode well with me).
The layout is the only thing that gets a low score here. Along with the template, the site loading time is heinously slow, mainly due to various third party images and site widgets. But get past all that and you do have a very amusing and off-beat journal.
And also the right and left panels look so similar. They are fraught with pictures, and crowded. The author can help us differentiate the two columns to make a better readability.
In my opinion, the reviewer who said that "The pictures on this blog should speak for themselves" hit the nail on the head. The LOLCATS have proven that a one-joke blog can be phenomenally successful, but there is WAY too much going on here to focus on what's going on with the bra. Memes, awards, slideshows, banners... all crammed into a tiny little A-cup of a blogger template.
I want to see the bra at the Statue of Liberty, or somebody holding it up to that painting of the chick losing her top during the French Revolution. Or the bra getting thrown out of Dollyworld.
Something.
Short of that, get a new template, clean house a bit, and keep the focus on the bra. Good luck!