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« on: August 29, 2010, 01:42:19 PM »
I decided a number of you might be interested in the statistics for the forums. The forum gives statistical information but this is very much limited to the scope of the forum.

The statistics I'm giving here make use of the server logs and Google Analytics to show trends an information of all visitors to the forum.

Note: All statistics are correct as of 29th August, 12:15am GMT

So far this month the forums have transferred over 10.5 GIGABYTES of data, an increase of over 250 MB from last month and nearly 4 GB more than in January, the data has increased every month bar May when it dropped to only 6.5 GB. This means that per visit each user downloads 12 MB of data through an average of 2.5 visits per visitor. This includes over 2 GB of bandwidth from bots etc.

The busiest day this month was the 19th August and the quietest was the 14th August. By 15 minutes past the "new day" today the forums had already transferred more data than on the 14th. Interesting the busiest day of the week is a Thursday with the quietest being Monday. Most visits occur around 11pm GMT (5pm Central) with the least at 8am GMT (2am Central).

According to the statistics the busiest country is the UK, however as the server IP is included as a host (due to internal calls for avatars etc) this is skewed and the highest is the USA followed by the UK. We've also had visitors from Sweden, Russia, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Malaysia, China, Latvia, New Zealand, Iraq, Finland, Norway, Ukraine, Poland, Oman, Slovakia, Thailand, Austria, Luxembourg, Israel and Romania.

The top 25 users shows Cyan having used the most bandwidth this month (after the server) followed closely by Crevan with Kid Jojo at the bottom of the top 25 - a difference of over 200 MB of data (this doesn't include internal calls to load avatars etc).

When it comes to various robots and spiders Yahoo Slurp has used over 1 GB of bandwidth in its indexing and Googlebot has used 255 MB.

Most visits last between 0 and 30 seconds (probably bots) with the next largest visit being over an hour! The average overall is about 15 minutes.

85% of users use Windows with 36% using XP followed by 32% using 2008 and then Vista / 7 with 15%. Mac accounts for 9.2% of visits with all visitors using OS X. Linux is a measly 2.5% with the majority using Ubuntu, although SUSE, Mandriva/Mandrake and Fedora are shown too. Other operating systems include the PSP, Wii, Solaris and Symbian.

When it comes to browsers Firefox has 33% usages with the latest 3.6(.8) being used, hits come from FF 4 as well as 3.5(.11) and even some from 3.0(.19) with a few still on FF 2. IE users mostly use version 8 with some hits from 7 and 6. Netscape has a small amount of users. The most commonly used browser is Google Chrome with over a quarter of visitors using it. Safari, Opera, Mozilla, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Android are also used.

81% of users have the site bookmarked or browse directly whereas 10% come from Search engines. Another 8% are linked from various sites.

Please note that although this records can all be linked up, the information is presented separately for privacy reasons. Any connections appearing on this page are merely coincidental and I have not "stalked" any specific user.

I hope you've found the mass of information on the forums interesting. If people would be interested in a monthly update I would be happy to consider it.
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 02:02:44 PM »
That is very interesting Tweak, Like you said i just type this forum address into the address bar, I cant bookmark it sadly.

Can i ask how many visitors have come from Oman if i may, i know i have but thats cause i am on holiday and wow the UK, I never would have thought.

It's also very interesting to see that i am number two in the bandwidth thing. I'm surprised.
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 02:26:21 PM »
Yeah, pretty interesting actually XP
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 02:55:20 PM »
I read the statistics part in the main forum part all the time, nice to see the server results :P.
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2010, 03:00:54 PM »
I read the statistics part in the main forum part all the time, nice to see the server results :P.

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That is very interesting Tweak, Like you said i just type this forum address into the address bar, I cant bookmark it sadly.

Can i ask how many visitors have come from Oman if i may, i know i have but thats cause i am on holiday and wow the UK, I never would have thought.

It's also very interesting to see that i am number two in the bandwidth thing. I'm surprised.

BTW i would Love regular updates of this, All on this thread
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2010, 03:03:21 PM »
I read the statistics part in the main forum part all the time, nice to see the server results :P.

Where White?

At the bottom of the forum index, above where it lists the users online. The link is here: http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?action=stats
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2010, 08:52:43 PM »
Can i ask how many visitors have come from Oman if i may, i know i have but thats cause i am on holiday and wow the UK, I never would have thought.

It's also very interesting to see that i am number two in the bandwidth thing. I'm surprised.

Oman accounted for 2500 hits - most likely a single person. The UK have quite a lot of users really, we aren't that small! Bandwidth per user differs, I just thought it may be of interest.

Regular updates will be done.

Just to show - another 5 GB of bandwidth has already been used in the past 9 hours, I think I'm going to have to increase the limits!
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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2010, 08:55:22 PM »
Can i ask how many visitors have come from Oman if i may, i know i have but thats cause i am on holiday and wow the UK, I never would have thought.

It's also very interesting to see that i am number two in the bandwidth thing. I'm surprised.

Oman accounted for 2500 hits - most likely a single person. The UK have quite a lot of users really, we aren't that small! Bandwidth per user differs, I just thought it may be of interest.

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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2010, 09:13:00 PM »
So that means the website will cost more per month to host right o.o?
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« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2010, 10:05:07 PM »
Interesting info, I look forward to seeing how the data changes in the future. And Solaris? I know the workstations and severs are still in use widely enough to matter but I didn't think any visitors would be running the OS.
Anyway, thanks for the info Tweak.
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2010, 10:42:57 PM »
So that means the website will cost more per month to host right o.o?

Technically it would, yes. But as the package isn't paid for directly it won't cost me more out of pocket.
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I don't really understand what you mean by not directly, but that's good to hear. This place is expensive already o.o
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2010, 10:24:27 AM »
The server is what donations are collected for, the server hosts a number of things as well as providing paid hosting. Each site hosted has its own package which cost a certain amount monthly, because no-one pays for the forums directly (donations cover everything) it means that no costs increase with upgrades unless it hits the server limits.

This gives more expansion without affecting costs. Donations cover all my costs as it cuts down my time and money input allowing me to focus on more.
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Re: Statistics
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2010, 10:30:20 AM »
Visitors from Slovakia!

That was me when i was on holiday  :P


Anyway, interesting stuff... And you do a great job of running the forums Tweak  ^_^
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