The statistics I'm giving here make use of the server logs and Google Analytics to show trends and information of all visitors to the forum.
Note: All statistics are correct as of 16th February, 12:16 GMT.
Apologies for the delay in posting this statistics, I was very ill.
Last month the forums transferred nearly 17 GIGABYTES of data and has so far experienced 99.47% uptime. This means that per visit each user downloads 844 KB of data through an average of 2.7 visits per visitor. This doesn't include nearly 16 GB of bandwidth from bots etc.
The busiest day this month was the 3rd (over 941 MB) and the quietest was the 14th (over 394 MB). Interestingly the busiest days of the week are Tuesday and Wednesday with the quietest being Saturday. Most visits occur around 3am GMT (9pm Central) with the least at 12pm GMT (6am Central).
According to the statistics the busiest country is the USA followed by Canada. We've also had visitors from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Australia, China, Faroe Islands, Belgium, Japan, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, New Zealand, Austria, Czech Republic, Argentina, France, Brazil, South Korea, Israel, and Hong Kong.
The top 25 users shows Viola Longshield having used the most bandwidth this month closely followed by the sad guy with Leiton at the bottom of the top 25 - a difference of over 700 MB of data.
When it comes to various robots and spiders MSNBot has used nearly 1.5 MB of bandwidth in its indexing and Googlebot has used 2 GB.
Most visits last between 0 and 30 seconds (probably bots) with the next largest visit being over an hour! The average overall is about 17 minutes.
79% of users use Windows with 54% using 7 followed by 14% using X.P and then Vista with 7%. Mac accounts for 8% of visits with all visitors using OS X. Linux is at 8% with the majority using Android although Ubuntu, Gentoo, CentOS and Fedora are shown too. Other operating systems include the PS3, Wii, Blackberry and Symbian.
When it comes to browsers Firefox has 32% usage with the latest 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3.6 being used, hits come from 3.5 and even some from 3.0 as well as the beta versions 11 and 12. IE users mostly use version 8 with some hits from 9, 7 and 6. Netscape has a small amount of users. Google Chrome has 32% of visitors using it. Safari, Opera, Mozilla, iPhone and Android are also used.
87% of users have the site bookmarked or browse directly whereas 10% come from Search engines. Another 2% are linked from various sites.