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 GMTSo 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
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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