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Neil,
Could you clarify the a point concerning the stats you gave? When you say 164 people with more than 50 posts, does that include the 104 people with over 100 posts, or not? Did you mean 164 people with between 50 and 100 posts? The anally retentive need to know.
Rocker
It is great that so many people use this forum BUT it can be a problem.
I've been busy and it has been 5 days since I logged on. I found a mere 15 pages (!!) of new posts. I am still not that UNbusy!
Sometimes one just has to be a lurker or just use the forum to look-up information.
What I would like would be a 'new threads' (not just 'new posts') tab. Would make a quick login more useful.
Despite all that - it is an immensely useful forum and even when not useful - FUN.
Cheers
I would be interested to know how many unique hits this site gets in a month, and how many users hit twice (or more) in the one month.
probably not available but I think it would be a good indicator of forum activity. :shrug:
Rocker - The figures for over 5 posts are cumulative. A total all up of 610 with over 5 posts. ie: 104 over 100, 60 over 50, 196 over 20 etc etc.
The figures for over 4 posts are exact give or take a couple ie: 140 with 4, 250 with 3, etc.
DaveInOz - figures for individual hits are around 2.5 million per month, total hits are more than 10 times that number on an average month. Our stats are not working at the moment, something has gone bung but these are average figures.
It seems like a hell of a lot of people visiting the forums but in actual fact around 70% of hits are on the Forum Archives rather than the Forums proper, these are almost exclusively because of search engine enquiries. Around 20% of all individual hits are from search engines spidering the forums. Most of the people that visit the Archives never come on to the full forums, and from memory about 60% of them are unique users who either do not return or have had their first encounter with the site.
Might be able to get a bit more info when the stats are up and running again.
Cheers - Neil :)
Very interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil
One thing I've noticed is how often a forum thread will come up in the results of a Google search for woodwork info.
Craig
Neil,
Thanks for that clarification. It confirms the impression I had formed that, despite the pretty big membership, the active posters on the forum are relatively few. But nevertheless, I think this forum is a very valuable resource.
Rocker
I think that the active posters on the BB probably have more access time (free time)to contribute than others do with the possibility that numerous members may be in contact with computers thru their employment or extended leisure time.
With the numerous computer tasking employment facilities that abound in this day and age many are able to be on line and have access to the BB whereas others may only have access from the home front and when they do there with the numerous posts they face their limited time is restricted to "lurking" and only responding to those posts of interest...I know I do with the time restrictions I personally have and am often annoyed that I cannot have the time to have more input these days as I might have done previously but circumstances are always changing in our busy lives that puts different constraints on our needs in regards to time.
When I first joined this BB the time spent on it was obviously regulated to a large extent by the content offered up whereas now it has grown from adolescence to maturity that can involve you for hours on end with the now content being offered up, which is testament to the terriffic job Neil and his administrators have achieved in producing a fine selfless product bringing together all of same ilk.
The active posters are always there some with a lot to say, some with little,but lets not detract from the fact that any input may be of some assistance to that someone seeking the key points to his/her needs.
It is without a doubt that some will always contribute more than others ...that is their nature whilst others will offer up where they feel they can perhaps with their own limitations in their experiences and as the BB grows nothing will change.....for that is mankind.
Cheers :)