It's been a month already! So, here are the statistics for October.
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 25th October, 12:30 GMTSo far this month the forums have transferred over 19 GIGABYTES of data, a small increase from last month and 13 GB more than in January. This means that per visit each user downloads 21 MB of data through an average of 2.5 visits per visitor. This includes over 3 GB of bandwidth from bots etc.
The busiest day this month was the 12th (over 1 GB) and the quietest was the 16th. Interesting the busiest days of the week is Tuesday and Wednesday with the quietest being Monday. Most visits occur around 2am GMT (8pm Central) with the least at 12am GMT (6am Central).
According to the statistics the busiest country is the USA followed by the UK. We've also had visitors from Oman, Australia, Norway, Canada, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, China, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Thailand, Israel, Japan, Iraq, Luxembourg, Croatia, France, Finland and Romania.
The top 25 users shows CrazyCat having used the most bandwidth this month followed closely by Many Coleo Brush with Dessum Ryugen at the bottom of the top 25 - a difference of over 900 MB of data.
When it comes to various robots and spiders Yahoo Slurp has used over 2 GB of bandwidth in its indexing and Googlebot has used 1.22 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 15 minutes.
85% of users use Windows with 30% using
followed by 40% using 2008 and then Vista / 7 with 14%. Mac accounts for 9% of visits with all visitors using OS X. Linux is a measly 5% with the majority using Android, although Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian and Fedora are shown too. Other operating systems include the PSP, Wii and Symbian.
When it comes to browsers Firefox has 32% usage with the latest 3.6(.10/11) being used, hits come from FF 4 as well as 3.5(.13) and even some from 3.0(.19). 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 37% of visitors using it. Safari, Opera, Mozilla, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Android are also used.
88% of users have the site bookmarked or browse directly whereas 10% come from Search engines. Another 2% are linked from various sites.