How many

[Turbo Tim 1]

Just curious of how many TDR members frequent the boards?

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

It sure seems weak..... I see an average of 140 ish on the bottom Which includes those sneaky Hidden people.





Steve can you bump the site back to real time (Or slower time?) that woke me up that time to see like 600+ users online at the bottom.

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

I mean like out of the 16,000 members how many have actually ever posted a question or reply. Cause there are people like Gary-K6QJabcdef or whatever his name was that doesn't come around here anymore, and there are actually people that don't visit the boards every day or even every week for that matter. Just wondering many people come around at one time or another. The magazine is great but I get alot out of these boards too and I wonder if there are people out there that don't have a real clue as to what goes on in here.

 

[Doc Tinker]

illflem posts enough for all those who don't



Doc

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

10053 to be exact about bill

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

TMTT: You've been on just a year longer than me but have ten times the posts (of course illflem has five times what you have), I am trying to catch up though. You need to go in the hospital or something though so you can't get to a computer.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Toolman would be a whole lot closer to illflem if the "Other" posts counted



Doc





Timmy cracked corn and I don't care

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Opps sorry ... I cracked one off #ad
... . Ohhhh my bad I cracked CORN!



Doc My real count is 2581



Yours is 2602

 

[TPCDrafting]

I've talked to a few CTD drivers and asked if they knew about the TDR. Some have stated that they are members, but don't use the web site. I don't get it. I could forgo the quarterly primer and would still pay the 35 for use of the site. Getting answers quick is the key to me. Also getting real experiences and results from real experiments makes it worth while. Also I thought I read back somewhere that the actual member count includes members who joined and are no longer subscribers. Maybe I'm wrong, but that means the number includes members who quit or expired (literaly or physically) some time ago. A good friend of mine was a member 10 years +/- ago, but only stayed on for a year and never has even seen the web site.

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

OK after you talked about real number of posts I checked mine out and it's 219, I feel ripped off my count only reads 175, that's it no more posting in the other section.

 

[illflem]

According to the member list 10,350 members have never posted even once

5970 have posted one or more times

1010 more than 100 times

550 more than 200 times

90 more than 1000 times

(above numbers +/- 10)

26 more than 2000 times

4 more than 3000 times



I agree about turning the clock back to count current users in real time. I was reminded to phone another member when I saw his name on the current active users list, when I talked to him he said he hadn't been online for at least 10 minutes.

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

Thanks illflem that's what I was looking for.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Hmmm - I'm in the top 90 then. Guess I should have quit posting before I hit 1000. I like being anonymous. Oh well. .



I'd say that 550 are regulars which would be reflected in the numbers online that we see on a daily basis.



Doc

 

[bighammer]

I don't know how many posts I have, but if I could keep away from here, I'd have more time for other things.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

BH 1278

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

Bighammer - 1278 total

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

In the last month 4,245 of the currently registered subscribers have accessed the forums, in the last 7 days 2,872, and in the last 24 hours 1,113. Illflems numbers on the active posters is accurate.



There are several reasons that user accounts aren't deleted when someone no longer subscribes - if they wish to resubscribe most want their old username/post count/etc back, secondly if we deleted their account then the signature line and all their user info (like their username) on all their posts would be lost as well. Last time I checked with Robin there were over 16,000 subscribers to the magazine and there are currently 9,660 users that are subscribed to the magazine that are also registered on the forums (we just ran the routine to turn off the members only features of people that are no longer subscribed about a month ago).



BTW, none of those numbers include the guests (which represents about 1/2 of the activity) or those that no longer subscribe.



The current user list is set to a 15 minute window right now. That is the default for vbulletin. You can't have it set for real time because that would be totally inaccurate, it would only show a user if they had JUST clicked on something. A 15 minute window allows for the time that someone could be reading a thread, etc. I know of other forums that have their user activity window set for 2 hours! When I set ours for 1 hour as a comparison one time we reached over 900 users.



-Steve St. Laurent

Webmaster

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

Originally posted by Steve St. Laurent

there were over 16,000 subscribers to the magazine and there are currently 9,660 users that are subscribed to the magazine that are also registered on the forums

-Steve St. Laurent

Webmaster

Not that low of a percentage if you ask me, 60% are registered in the forums and 37% have posted at least once that is fairly good and of the total membership 27% have been on in the last month. That is actually more than I would've thought.



And, darnit Toolman you beat me too it (BH count), how am I gonna catch up



P. S. Thanks Steve

 

[illflem]

Steve, do your numbers for the month, week and day count visits from each user individually or the number of users that have logged on? In other words if a guy logs on several times a day does each log in go towards the total or are they limited to one count per day?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

That's each user individually. One of the fields in the user records stores when you had your last activity - that's how the new post markers/read unread messages work. I did a select of the database showing only those people that are current subscribers with activity in the last 24 hrs, 7 days, and then 1 month. So someone could have checked on the site 5000 times in the last month and they'd only be counted once. Guests also would not be counted at all.



Each day we average around 6,000 visits to the site. A visit is the first time someone goes to a page and hasn't been to it within 30 minutes. So if you read a thread now and then walked away from your machine for 45 minutes and then read another thread that would count as 2 visits. If you read one now, walked away and then read another in 29 minutes, went away and read another in 29 minutes, etc that would be counted as one visit. We get an average of close to 700,000 hits each day.



That should give you a better idea of the traffic levels we have. BTW, you can look at all the website statistics at any time by going to the front page and clicking on the website statistics link at the bottom of the forum stats on the right hand side of the page.