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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
By special request some interesting facts and figures about Citybythelake.org
96 members, 61 of whom have made at least one post (normal ratio is about 2:1) 10 busiest posting days... 1. 82 May 8, 2008 2. 81 Dec 5, 2007 3. 80 Jan 9, 2008 4. 79 Nov 6, 2007 5. 72 Nov 30, 2007 6. 68 Oct 15, 2007 7. 66 (TIE)Nov 13, 2007 and Jan 2, 2008 8. 65 Nov 9, 2007 9. 63 Oct 24, 2007 10. 62 July 17, 2007 Since its inception, CBTL has had just over 207,000 topic views. The highest viewing month was over 20,000 during the last election cycle, in November 2007. Unfortunately the invision software doesn't track all IP hits. I think I could get that info from my server host, but I don't have it in front of me (and I can't remember that log in). Typically we get about 10 people make at least one post per day. By my highly unscientific estimations (I can see guest IPs as an administrator) there are somewhere around 25-30 regular guest readers on a normal weekday. Weekends are much slower. |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,237 Joined: 8-December 06 From: MC Member No.: 3 ![]() |
Could you list the most-frequent posters? I saw that Ang passed me up--sacré bleu, c'est insupportable!
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
Could you list the most-frequent posters? I saw that Ang passed me up--sacré bleu, c'est insupportable! That is available to all. On the front page, towards the bottom there is a section labeled "board statistics" which lists the all-time posting levels for each member of the site. |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,237 Joined: 8-December 06 From: MC Member No.: 3 ![]() |
Interesting. I wish the three-digit list was longer, but what the hey.
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
Interesting. I wish the three-digit list was longer, but what the hey. We're working on it. The core poster base is growing slowly but surely. A really bright sign is almost everyone in the top 20 posts is someone who visits the site regularly. The interesting question now is will we hit 10,000 posts or 100 members first? |
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![]() Really Comfortable ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 1,658 Joined: 26-July 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 482 ![]() |
10 busiest posting days... 1. 82 May 8, 2008 Let me guess -- the day Roger came back from hiatus? Once again, Rog, glad to see you back! Need more talking on here! QUOTE Since its inception, CBTL has had just over 207,000 topic views. The highest viewing month was over 20,000 during the last election cycle, in November 2007. [Arte Johnson]Verrrry Eeenteresting![/Arte Johnson] QUOTE Unfortunately the invision software doesn't track all IP hits. I think I could get that info from my server host, but I don't have it in front of me (and I can't remember that log in). Typically we get about 10 people make at least one post per day. By my highly unscientific estimations (I can see guest IPs as an administrator) there are somewhere around 25-30 regular guest readers on a normal weekday. Weekends are much slower. I would be curious as to how many of the guests are repeat viewers, as opposed to one time drive-bys. If you come across this info, please post it! Not too much info, though. Gotta respect people's privacy and all. Just general figures. Some folks want to be incognito, ya know! |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
Let me guess -- the day Roger came back from hiatus? Once again, Rog, glad to see you back! Need more talking on here! [Arte Johnson]Verrrry Eeenteresting![/Arte Johnson] I would be curious as to how many of the guests are repeat viewers, as opposed to one time drive-bys. If you come across this info, please post it! Not too much info, though. Gotta respect people's privacy and all. Just general figures. Some folks want to be incognito, ya know! Yes the #1 posting day was the return of Roger, how appropriate, right? I based my guestimates off of the seeing some of the same IPs everyday as guests. I have noticed a definite uptrend in guest surfing lately though. I'll see what I can complile. |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
Some highly unscientific research... I started jotting down all guest IPs that showed up as viewing the site from my last post at about 1:15pm.
14 unique IP addresses showed up. 3 I determined to be either search engines, spambots, or something similar (foreign IPs is the big disqualifier, another is the internet servers they use). That leaves 11 readers in a little under two hours time. I think my prior estimates of 25-30 guest readers per day might have been a little low. |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
Yeah it turns out I was REALLY wrong for unique viewers (I emailed my server host, I couldn't take it anymore!)
Unique views have averaged about 160-170 during the recent weekdays. Hit counts are in the 15-18K per day range. I do not have a number to distinguish bot type users from regular users, but if we look at something like the 80-90% ratio that I just noted previously, that means we're in the vicinity of 150 people looking at the site each day. When our viewing audience is pretty limited in a town of 30,000 people, that isn't bad at all, especially when this site was founded only in Dec of 2006 with about 5 people to start with. |
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Advanced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 253 Joined: 25-December 07 Member No.: 756 ![]() |
One question - If my number of posts were to increase dramatically as I pass edgywood on the all time list, would anyone scream "Steroids!!!" and then want to add an asterisk? LOL
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![]() Really Comfortable ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 1,658 Joined: 26-July 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 482 ![]() |
Yeah it turns out I was REALLY wrong for unique viewers (I emailed my server host, I couldn't take it anymore!) Unique views have averaged about 160-170 during the recent weekdays. Hit counts are in the 15-18K per day range. I do not have a number to distinguish bot type users from regular users, but if we look at something like the 80-90% ratio that I just noted previously, that means we're in the vicinity of 150 people looking at the site each day. When our viewing audience is pretty limited in a town of 30,000 people, that isn't bad at all, especially when this site was founded only in Dec of 2006 with about 5 people to start with. I like! Considering the numbers, that's like a national message board having 1.5 million viewers daily. There would have do be webmasters who would kill for numbers like that. Not to mention this place is addictive. I'd think the numbers would just continually go up. |
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Really Comfortable ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 2,315 Joined: 10-February 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 43 ![]() |
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![]() Really Comfortable ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 1,658 Joined: 26-July 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 482 ![]() |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
I like! Considering the numbers, that's like a national message board having 1.5 million viewers daily. There would have do be webmasters who would kill for numbers like that. Not to mention this place is addictive. I'd think the numbers would just continually go up. Yeah, when you start eliminating breakout groups and putting the viewers size in perspective, the numbers are really impressive. First of all the viewing audience is pretty well limited when you consider Michigan City is a town of 30,000 people. Pretty much if you are living, or haven't lived there, why would you care? Next you get to eliminate those without computers. In a town with as significant of a population in poverty, that is probably a pretty sizable number. Next up lop off the extremes of the age brackets in the very young, and mostly likely, the very old. Then there is probably a little statistical duplicity to be factored in, such as two people using the same computer, which is probably offset by one person who accesses on two different computers (work and home) such as myself. What does all of that babble mean? We are hitting a pretty sizable portion of our target audience. Even if it isn't directly from reading here, the people that are reading here are most likely taking bits of information back to other people they know to talk about. My biggest goals of becoming a source of community education and an open discussion area are being realized, I believe. |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,237 Joined: 8-December 06 From: MC Member No.: 3 ![]() |
I agree. We should all send messages to our entire address books to at least look at the site. I can give you a reason for ANYONE to check this site out. Doubt it? Try me!
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Really Comfortable ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 2,315 Joined: 10-February 07 From: Michigan City Member No.: 43 ![]() |
I agree. We should all send messages to our entire address books to at least look at the site. I can give you a reason for ANYONE to check this site out. Doubt it? Try me! Sounds like the start of a new, self-promoting thread (of the site, of course...not any one specific member). ![]() |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
Sounds like the start of a new, self-promoting thread (of the site, of course...not any one specific member). ![]() If you all enjoy the site, by all means pass it on. I have always fully believed that word of mouth promotion is WAY more effective in a site like this, versus anything else. A person is much more likely to try something a friend recommends, versus a random piece of advertising or the like. It has never been my policy to try to impose passing the site along to anyone. I want to have it happen naturally, not artificially. I think it breeds a better environment here. |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,237 Joined: 8-December 06 From: MC Member No.: 3 ![]() |
What can be more natural than mass-Emailing???
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 16,426 Joined: 8-December 06 From: Michigan City, IN Member No.: 2 ![]() |
New updates...
In the last week and a half, we have had our two highest site view days with 255 and 269 unique viewers. We also had of the three busiest posting days ever during May with day registering 89, 85 and 78. |
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![]() Spends WAY too much time at CBTL ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,237 Joined: 8-December 06 From: MC Member No.: 3 ![]() |
Besides members blabbing about it, WIMS's Temporary Show in the afternoon has a weekly CBTL segment. This week was about the MCAS poll.
![]() The difference between genius and stupidity is that there are limits to genius. Albert Einstein
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