Dos_Box Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 I must have been slacking (that or the Exchange 2007 transition is taking up lots of my time), but I missed 2 important milestones this past week. On 2 days we have had over 7000 unique visitors per day (not bots), which is a first for us, so here are the visitor stats: Sun:2844 Mon:6910 Tues:7227 Wed:6832 Thurs:7134 Fri:6460 Sat:2883 And new members (by day) Sun:8 Mon:20 Tues:22 Wed:22 Thurs:15 Fri:21 Sat:9 That's 117 new members this past week (of which about 7 or 8 were spam accounts). At this rate we will hit 10,000 on approximately Christmas day. In fact, why don't we have a little competition right now to guess the date. I'm going to plump for December 15th (even though I can't win). There can be multiple winners as there will not be enough dates to go around and we'll make up some special EduGeek lucky bags for those who guess correctly Wed
Ric_ Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 I think that it's also worth noting that the average time spent on the site has increased from 4.5mins to over 5mins in the past month. This either means people like what they see or things are getting harder to find - I like to think it's the first!
Sylv3r Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Good news. Do we have any idea how the new members are coming to the site. Can we see who is referring them here or is it just a case of a google search, word of mouth or are you advertising anywhere externally? Not important, just interested really how the site continues to grow.
Ric_ Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 These are the last month's stats for where people are coming from: Search Engines - 119,671.00 (72.56%) Direct Traffic - 38,025.00 (23.05%) Referring Sites - 7,237.00 (4.39%) Other - 1 (> 0.00%) The most interesting stat being that over 5800 of the Google referrals are people typing 'edugeek' into Google.
Dos_Box Posted October 5, 2008 Author Posted October 5, 2008 Many common Google searches resolved to us. Almost anything EeePC related and bulk user creation are 2 I've noticed recently that we are in the top 2 or 3.
tom_newton Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 TBH, I sometimes use the "google for edugeek" technique to save typing on machines where I don't have it bookmarked Do you get any referrals at all from us? Most of our links are in newsletters, so I doubt it will be much. I'll have to ask Paul nicely what sort of level of clickthru we get back... Edit: 19th December
elsiegee40 Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 (edited) I EasySearch for eduGeek because it earns money for the school every time I do it! Edit: December 12th! Edited October 6, 2008 by elsiegee40
Daleus Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 Jan 2nd, Due to the fact that if ANY computer breaks over new year its .. "got that new millenium +9 bug I heard about on Panorama (read: Paranoia)" and the amount of posts in FFS will rocket.
Geoff Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 The Alexa data makes for some interesting reading too. edugeek.net - Traffic Details from Alexa not sure how it squares with the 'offical' site stats though.
Dos_Box Posted November 19, 2008 Author Posted November 19, 2008 OK guys, we'll hit 10,000 in the next week. I want dates and times. As you may have gathered our membership and registrations are accelerating rapidly!! Oh, and Shaun (ZeroHour) tells me that our server is hitting over 70% processor usage on a regular basis now. New server required, but more news on that nearer Christmas I think. I'm betting on Tuesay 25th at 13:00 (my wedding anniversary actually, so very convenient for more than one celebration! )
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