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As Neal mentioned yesterday, these forums have now hit 20,000 posts. I promised the possibility of more fun stats today, and I just thought I would oblige.

The stats program for our website categorizes traffic to the site on several categories. Briefly, here's a rundown of how that works:

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Hits represent the total number of requests made to the server during the given time period (month, day, hour etc.). This is the total of all pages, images, etc. that the user gets - so, if the user visits a page that has four images, the hit total is five.

Files represent the total number of hits (requests) that actually resulted in something being sent back to the user. Not all hits will send data, such as 404-Not Found requests and requests for pages that are already in the browsers cache.

Sites is the number of unique IP addresses/hostnames that made requests to the server.

Visits occur when some remote site makes a request for a page on your server for the first time. As long as the same site keeps making requests within a given timeout period, they will all be considered part of the same Visit.

Pages are those URLs that would be considered the actual page being requested, and not all of the individual items that make it up (such as graphics and audio clips). Some people call this metric page views or page impressions, and defaults to any URL that has an extension of .htm, .html or .cgi.

Why is this important, you ask? Well, it will help you understand the following numbers:

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October 2003 Stats
Sites: 32457
Visits: 27542
Pages: 129633
Files: 1664567
Hits: 2419459

Now, you might be wondering why that info is important. More likely, you've already figured it out. But for the sake of argument, I'll spell it out here: each one of those numbers is the highest the site has ever recorded. Ever. The basic upshot is that October of 2003 has been, yet again, the biggest month for traffic that the site has ever had. Several months this year have had high numbers in one category or another, but October is the first month that we have ever set records in every category across the board.

In other news, while October was a relatively quiet month in chat, chatstats will show you one fun little fact; since we first started tracking chat stats in January of 2002, we have logged over one million lines in channel #narshe.

Thanks to all the loyal visitors, yet again, who have made this possible!

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Hooray!

Those numbers are incredible; I take them as a sign that CoN will just keep growing and growing in the future.

Cheers to every forum, chat, and site regular,
and cheers to Josh for starting it all for us. ^_^

-Phoenix

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Those numbers are incredible; I take them as a sign that CoN will just keep growing and growing in the future.

Watch us Grow (Hey, that was the motto for my High School's football team)
But unlike my HS's football team, CoN will actually do it.
Keep it coming people

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

Sweet.

Those numbers are insane! Kudos for CoN. And we'll only get bigger and better! Right?

Right?

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Those are IMPRESSIVE numbers! Just wondering--are there stats for new members joining? I really like this site!

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Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 1st November 2003 11:29)

Those are IMPRESSIVE numbers!  Just wondering--are there stats for new members joining?  I really like this site!

If I get what you're asking, here are some recent monthly totals for new forum members.

23 new members in October.
24 new members in September.
39 new members in August (!).
36 new members in July.
28 new members in June.

The summer months are usually our busiest. It's definitely true in chat, and seems to be that way at the forums, though posts have been plentiful lately.

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And since I'm taking the opportunity to talk about stats in chat as well, check out the offical chatstats. Maybe it'll convince more people to come in.

This post has been edited by Neal on 1st November 2003 20:00

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

so, how do you get chat to work then?

Moderator Edit

First thing is, post on topic. Chat doesn't work for those who don't. -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 1st November 2003 22:15

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Congrats CoN, Rangers, and webmasters!!

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SPEKKIO: "GRRR...That was most embarrassing!"

Quote (Neal @ 1st November 2003 14:58)

If I get what you're asking, here are some recent monthly totals for new forum members.

23 new members in October.
24 new members in September.
39 new members in August (!).
36 new members in July.
28 new members in June.

How many of them actually stayed?

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

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Quote (Neal @ 1st November 2003 14:58)

If I get what you're asking, here are some recent monthly totals for new forum members.

23 new members in October.
24 new members in September.
39 new members in August (!).
36 new members in July.
28 new members in June.

How many of them actually stayed?

And posted. I'm just wondering, do we get a lot of members who sign up but then never post?

Oh, and hip hop hurray!

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

The stats come from the memberlist, which doesn't count people who've never posted. Look for yourself. All of those 150 people have contributed or asked something.

Quite obviously, they haven't all become regulars, not least because not everyone wants to be a regular on an FF forum. I defy you to find a forum with that kind of retention. It's also difficult to measure who's "sticking around" as an exact figure, given that people leave and return, and some people just post very infrequently anyway. The best thing you can do is head for the memberlist, sort by reg. date descending, and see how many names you remember.

We aren't the biggest FF site, by a long way. That's the point, in some ways. This forum isn't a free-for-all "Who can make the most posts that only say 'lol'" affair. I encourage you to read Iain Peregrine's comment in the 20000 post thread for some backup to that.

But the point is this: our figures are huge compared to our own past figures. For reference, here are the figures from October 2002, one year ago:

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Sites: 8025
Visits: 11740
Pages: 68088
Files: 494303
Hits: 958398

That, sir, is growth.

It's the fact that I host you guys that gets so many visitors. They hear that the MIGHTY Bill is hosting you at his FORTRESS OF GAMING GOODNESS, opgaming.com, and they flock here to celebrate in my grandness.

Your welcome.

Amen, Rubes. Amen.

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"Not me... I dreamt I was a moron."

Outta pure curiosity, where do you think the CoN stands on the list of FF sites out there Top Cat (or any of the other staff for that matter)? Personal opinion o course. I figure once you get rid of all the sites with 'Final Fantasy' in the url, it's pretty high up, if not higher.

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