Some amazing stats

[Felder]

You mean the Friday thread?

What's a Friday thread??

[AlexS]

Congratulations Neil. I remember how happy you were when you got your millionth visitor (or was it hit?) jeez that seems a long time ago.

[ss_11000]

congrats neil on making such a popular foum

[namtrak]

Personally, I thing the really stunning stat, is the 224,507 unique visitors.

Absolutely!! great stuff, the hits are a bit misleading but the unique visitors is truly phenomenal!!

WOW

[Wood Borer]

Well done Neil and the rest of the team.

They are very large numbers indeed and would make most corporates sit up and wonder why.

[Lignum]

I dont understand these stats. Half a mill a day look, but bugger all post?
What is the % of posts to hits?

[Honorary Bloke]

I dont understand these stats. Half a mill a day look, but bugger all post?
What is the % of posts to hits?

Well, IIRC from my webstat days, the unique visitors can be taken as the actual number of people looking in over a given month. Every page viewed is a separate hit. With 1,6M hits, the rough math is 6 or 7 pages viewed by each visitor on average. But we know that many of us view a lot more pages, so some are viewing only 1.

Some get here by accident, doing a search, the forum comes up and they look in out of curiosity. Others come only to look for an answer to a specific problem, find it, and move on. Then, there are the lurkers, enjoying the information but not posting for various reasons (the chief of which is, I suspect, fear of looking an ass in public ).

That leaves the rest of us, who apparently don't care if we look an ass in public. ( I offer, for illustration, the Friday Thread. ) I, for one, read a great many more threads than I post in, trying to learn techniques new to me and to which I have nothing of value to contribute as yet (if ever).

I daresay the posts per hit ratio on the forum would be considered quite good, given all that.

[oldbob13]

The potential here is what staggers me.
With 16 million hits, I still tell woodies about this great forum and they look at me blankly and say they have never heard of it.
Keep up the good work Neil
Oldbob13

[sea dragon]

Neill,
That is a phenomenal result.
Notice how there are always more each mid-week day than any weekend.
How many at work are viewing, when they could be involved in "work"?
I hope these hits are also reflected in benefitting u-beaut, too.

[BobL]

[SIZE=4][B]Compared to????

What compared to?

It must be the scientist in me that says a single number means less that a number with some comparisons. A few useful comparisons would be
- Same time last year, two years ago etc (demonstrating rate of growth)
- Compared to other WW sites. Just how far in front is the WWF?
- Compared to other large trade or hobby sites.

I'm not trying to put this forum down in any way. I think this is a FANTASTIC site, the information is incredibly useful, the response rate is fast and furious, the threads generally stay on track, the admins do a superb job, and the degree of anarchy, freedom of speech and nonsense is about right for me, but IMHO adding by comparative data I think the stats will be even more impressive than without.

Compared to having no hits on the forum at all I guess.

Do we need a compared to?

It depends what you are trying to do. Some of the big forums/sites publish their comparative data on their sites. It's pretty obvious they are doing this to generate PR attract advertizers.

On a personal side the stats are great but when I talk to woodies most have still not heard about this site and proceed to tell me about their favourite MDF (YAWN!) website. When I tell them about WWF they yawn and think it's just like their site. I'd just like to be able to say something more definitive (eg this site receives more hits than the next 4 ww sites put together!) about this being the best WW site.

I hope you can take this as a constructive opinion.

Cheers

[Howdya do that]

What's a Friday thread??

The quintessential example of Australian larrikinism, mateship, wit and intelligence that is the envy of every man, women and child from every nation. Thousands sit glued to there monitor every Friday’s with their user CP switched off wishing that they had the persona and qualities to participate.

[BobL]

A very interesting site to visit is Alexa.com. It allows visitors to track website traffic and make interesting comparisons, eg you can track 1, 3, 6 monthly data etc. It's not for the faint hearted but most UBWWF people would be numerate enought to follow the data and logic involved.

For example, the image posted below shows the % of people (I suspect that is IP addresses?) reached on the internet (which is a better indicator that the absolute number of visitors) by UBWWF (in blue) in comparison with some other international WWF websites. The red line is for a well known US forum that has clearly gone down hill in the last few months. On this score UBWWF is clearly holding its own because as the number of internet users increase (especially in non english speaking countries) you would naturally expect to see a drop in % of people accessing websites.

Alexa shows UBWWF last week rated in the top 250,000 of all websites in the world as compared to the "well known US WW forum" which was only in the top 600,000 sites last week. More importantly UBWWF has gone up 5000 places in the last 6 months. By way of another comparison a well know international DIY website rated in the top 25,000 sites last week (BTW this site includes all manner of art, craft and basket weaving so it is not in itself a fair direct comparison).

On the Australian scene UBWWF currently ranks 8578 in term of traffic and only 42% of visitors are Aussies - we're a minority folks!

OK that's enough stats for one post.

Cheers

[echnidna]

So lets all hope Neil's agents in the US do a roaring trade which in turn should help keep this forum online.

[Ashore]

You know what this means Neil , you And Pauline are going to HAVE to find time to go to the awards this Year, And that means top accomodation for you and Pauline for the weekend , new clobber for the boss , you and with ties on ( Getting into a tie will be well worth seeing, let alone either of you in a suit) , Yep you just wont be able to ignoe the Best Wood Work Site Award when you win it AGAIN again this year
Rgds

[Honorary Bloke]

So lets all hope Neil's agents in the US do a roaring trade which in turn should help keep this forum online.

I trust that was meant in all best wishes.