Mike
Well-Known Member
I sat down today to clean up some of the daily records I keep on my Web sites. And frankly, after compiling all the data for The T-Bucket Forums, I am really impressed. And more than a little amazed. Remember, this was a hobby site I was secretly hoping would some day have as many as 250 members.
On 15 May 2011, we had 81072 posts and 2413 members. Today, 15 May 2012, we have 95432 posts and 2895 members. And keep in mind that during the conversion from Invision Power Board to XenForo, there were 511 posts and 29 members jettisoned. Had we not lost that dead weight, our numbers would be just that much higher. We've had a real increase of 14,360 new posts in the last 366 days, with a real membership increase of 486 new members, during that same time period. Almost twice as many members in just one year as I was hoping to ever see in total!
I don't like to give away all the trade secrets and numbers, but I want everyone to see a graphic representation of our overall monthly traffic numbers, since January 2011.
With the exception of just two months, every month in the last 16 has re-set a new overall traffic record. We had a slump in August of last year, which I am still trying to figure out. And in February of this year, we saw another slump. But that one was pretty easy to take, because taking the average traffic count for the 29 days of February and adding just one more day to that month, it would have been a new record, as well. For Month 17, which is this month, I've taken the average traffic for the first 14 days, 8 hours of this month and projected that out for the entire month, to show what May's traffic is already looking like.
I'm a little frustrated over some internal problems with XenForo, the company that develops the forum software we're using. But the software is working really well from an admin's point of view and since the conversion, the numbers of members who are logging in each day has increased by a little over 22%, so it seems all of you are satisfied, as well. So I'm trying to keep a 'glass half-full' attitude about the software and keep moving forward with it.
I've always said this site is all about and also all because of every one of its members. I never dreamed this site would grow like as it has. And it has grown because of each one of you. So, as the title of the thread says, give yourselves a big pat on the back. We'll be celebrating our 6th anniversary on 21 October of this year and that's because of what all of you have done over those years, to create such an amazing community of T-Bucket fans. Congratulations, everyone!
On 15 May 2011, we had 81072 posts and 2413 members. Today, 15 May 2012, we have 95432 posts and 2895 members. And keep in mind that during the conversion from Invision Power Board to XenForo, there were 511 posts and 29 members jettisoned. Had we not lost that dead weight, our numbers would be just that much higher. We've had a real increase of 14,360 new posts in the last 366 days, with a real membership increase of 486 new members, during that same time period. Almost twice as many members in just one year as I was hoping to ever see in total!
I don't like to give away all the trade secrets and numbers, but I want everyone to see a graphic representation of our overall monthly traffic numbers, since January 2011.
With the exception of just two months, every month in the last 16 has re-set a new overall traffic record. We had a slump in August of last year, which I am still trying to figure out. And in February of this year, we saw another slump. But that one was pretty easy to take, because taking the average traffic count for the 29 days of February and adding just one more day to that month, it would have been a new record, as well. For Month 17, which is this month, I've taken the average traffic for the first 14 days, 8 hours of this month and projected that out for the entire month, to show what May's traffic is already looking like.
I'm a little frustrated over some internal problems with XenForo, the company that develops the forum software we're using. But the software is working really well from an admin's point of view and since the conversion, the numbers of members who are logging in each day has increased by a little over 22%, so it seems all of you are satisfied, as well. So I'm trying to keep a 'glass half-full' attitude about the software and keep moving forward with it.
I've always said this site is all about and also all because of every one of its members. I never dreamed this site would grow like as it has. And it has grown because of each one of you. So, as the title of the thread says, give yourselves a big pat on the back. We'll be celebrating our 6th anniversary on 21 October of this year and that's because of what all of you have done over those years, to create such an amazing community of T-Bucket fans. Congratulations, everyone!
