David on 17/9/2004 at 07:42
For the first time in ages I ran a webstats program on our server logs and thought it might be nice to share some of the statistics.
The following are for TTLG.com only, that includes the forums, Destination Morrowind and the various staff sites such as MsLedd's and GBM's. It does not include any of the daughter sites such as Thief-TheCircle.com.
They cover just over three months, from 12th June 2004 to 16th September 2004.
We had 771,500 visitors with 262,800 unique IPs. Quite a few ISPs (such as NTL in the UK, AOL in general, and I believe Shaw in Canada) put their users through large proxies. It is likely that the true number of unique IPs lies somewhere inbetween, most likely closer to 300,000.
We had just under 39 million hits, forming just shy of 15 million pageviews in that period. On average each user viewed just over 19 pages.
We chew through 1.73GB of bandwidth per day, I would dread to see the cost of the hosting account for that!
Internet Explorer does not have as muich of a strangle hold on the browser market at TTLG as the rest of the Internet.
IE 5 and 6 make 69% of all hits, Mozilla based browsers (that is Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla Suite, FireBird and Firefox) make up 21% (yay)) Opera gets 5.5% and the remainder is made of up obscure browsers, ancient versions of Netscape and IE, unusual search bots that were not stripped out, and odd ones such as Getright :weird:
Operating System wise, Windows XP makes up 66.7%, Windows 2000 - 10.99%, Windows 9x (95,98,ME) - 14%, Linux - 1.57% with the rest made of oddballs including the generic "others" category which gets 4.48%.]
Anyway, just thought I would share! :)
Koki on 17/9/2004 at 13:24
Quote Posted by David
IE 5 and 6 make 69% of all hits
Operating System wise, Windows XP makes up 66.7%
:nono:
Shadette on 17/9/2004 at 13:26
And atop all that, it's one of the most unique places on the web. Yep, I guess that means TTLG has it all! :thumb:
Now, where are the colors? We want to see pie charts and/or other forms of illustration! ;)
Actually, whatever happened to our 13000 members? Last I checked we'd hit +12900, and then 13000, but all of a sudden we're back at 12000. :weird:
Edit: Koki, I wrote my reply first! :p
David on 17/9/2004 at 13:39
Every so often an email is sent out to accounts that are over a certain age who have never posted. This also includes old accounts that have posted, but who's postcounts were lost in a upgrading accident a few years ago.
The email tells them that we will delete their account unless they reply to that email within (I think) a fortnight.
Our rolling member total, that is the total number of members we would have if we did not delete accounts, is approaching 32,000.
Shadette on 17/9/2004 at 13:46
32000! :wot: Oh, my... we should throw a party when that goes up 50000 ;)
The deletion goes by posts? What about the lurkers? I know some members just log on and look around but near never post except once every two years or something. It sounds a bit unfair to delete those accounts as well.
David on 17/9/2004 at 13:51
That is why they are given the opportunity to reply to the email that is sent out.
If they do reply, then their account is not deleted.
Shadette on 17/9/2004 at 14:03
Ah! Yes, that makes sense.
In any case, I vote that we get more public statistics every now and then. Definitely puts things in perspective. :)
dj_ivocha on 17/9/2004 at 15:44
Cool stats. :)
But, Dave, isn't one day a bit too small amount of time to prevent a deletion of an account? Maybe some people check their email not that often, especially if it is a special account just for forums and other registrations on the net?
1,.....7........3 gigs per day!!? :wot:
David on 17/9/2004 at 16:04
Quote Posted by David
The email tells them that we will delete their account unless they reply to that email within (I think) a fortnight.
A fortnight is 14 days. :)
Shadow Creeper on 17/9/2004 at 16:50
Very interesting stats, thanks for posting them! :thumb:
