I have just been given the passwords from Firebrand for the WebStats program, which is an intricate analytical tool used to count page hits, location, duration etc etc.

This is for the Main Site only, and not the forum! Here are a couple of stats..

Average page hits per Week - around 1.2 MILLION (growing at around 15% per week as we climb the Google rankings after the previous shambles with the old server crashing which affected which page we show on)

Highest amount of hits in one day - 589,000 - March 17th 2007

This isn't even counting the hits on the forum remember, so heaven knows what the true figure must be for the site as a whole!

I must admit i am delighted, as the figures are even better than expected. It just goes to show how popular BeoWorld is, and what a huge site we are all part of! Well done to everyone.

Lee

 

Fantastic news!

Just makes you wonder who is looking at Beoworld aswell as demonstrating how important the site/community is for the brand.

Best thing is, BW can only get better!

 

That is really good news Lee.

 

Craig

Wow! 1.2 million in a week. You must be grinning like a Cheshire cat.
Well done Lee.
BTW my desk set and mug haven't arrived yet, think I ordered on Friday. Can you check up for me please.
Keep up the good work!

Andy T.

And, for the Windows users to get their own back..

No more than 4.5% of our visitors are using Macs or Mac Browsers!!  Windows claims a landslide victory on numbers!

 

9 LEE:

And, for the Windows users to get their own back..

No more than 4.5% of our visitors are using Macs or Mac Browsers!!  Windows claims a landslide victory on numbers!

 

 

What a surprise!! Now you know why nobody tests their software on Macs. Just not worth the effort.

joeyboygolf:

9 LEE:

And, for the Windows users to get their own back..

No more than 4.5% of our visitors are using Macs or Mac Browsers!!  Windows claims a landslide victory on numbers!

 

 

What a surprise!! Now you know why nobody tests their software on Macs. Just not worth the effort.

I'm sure someone else will pitch in with this, but bear in mind 'hits' are fairly meaningless - of more interest is page views or better yet unique sessions - which would give an idea of the actual number of site visitors. 

Just looked....  650,000+ page views a week, growing steadily.  Not sure how to find unique sessions though as i'm still finding my way round!

Hope this provides the correct info, and i fully understand you were not trying to detract. Thank you for your kind compliments, and once again thank you to everyone who has, and is, helping to keep adding to the site. I'm just the mad fool who borrowed the money to pay for it! LOL 

I'd especially like to thank Peter yet again for the work he is doing on the manuals section. I must get about 10-15 requests for rare/odd manuals we don't have in our archive every week, and i simply forward them on to Peter. Without fail, he finds them like a dimented sniffer dog and uploads them faster than you can blink! Amazing... 

Once i can get Forum stats, i'll let us all know.  I'm sure the forum will be about twice as busy as the main site?  Either way, phoenominal ! (if that's how you spell it...)

I was particularly proud today when the chap commented how surprised he was when he had an almost instant answer to his enquiry about the broken BeoCenter he had 'inherited'.  I trawl literally hundreds of forums looking for ideas and ways to improve constantly, and it's always like 'coming home' when i return to BeoWorld. Such lovely people on here.

Lee

 

Great news !

I'm happy to hear that indexing at Google is progressing nicely  

 

The individual visits are going up daily so it is difficult to quantify and as Lee says, we don't have statistics for the forum but there are over 120,000 individual sessions in a week just on the reference site.

The amount of work Lee has put into this project is phenomenal and the help we have had from Firebrand and Van in particular has made all the difference. But at the end of the day, it is the members who are supporting the site and driving up the figures. It would be nice to have a full complement of Founder members for the first draw - so remember - Why not Gold?!! 

And of course, we must encourage as many people as poss to upgrade to gold. I'm an ordinary member (gold of course) and this thread so far from our founding fathers has omitted the need for this membership upgrade. I know it is mentioned liberally elsewhere, but, apart from beneavolent advertisers, the web site needs finance. Sorry if this spoils the mood of the thread, but Lee needs this input.

Brian

I always feel a little embarassed urging people to join as Gold members, but you are of course correct.

I went for the best of everything when revamping the site, with no exceptions and not enough regard to cost. I just felt the BeoWorld members would appreciate high quality as they do their AV, and perhaps relied a little too heavily on Gold Memberships!

As i said before, has anyone counted how many times BeoWorld has crashed?  Yes, none!  Everything always works, and is always there, all the time.

That's because we are on the best server, with the best support, and the website was designed by the best. We also have the best reference material, and the best members.  We also have the best Prize Draw of any enthusiasts site i could find on the internet..

We do need more people to join as Gold or at least Silver members though, and i thank the people who have already joined. There are people with only a handful of posts and a Gold Membership, and these are the people that i feel appreciate the site as much as the regular users. Sometimes people feel a little shy coming forward with posts, but still want to support the site, and i'd like to personally thank these people.

However, we do have some prominent posters who are Bronze members, and i find this a little confusing to say the least. However, not everyone is in a financial position to be able to pay the membership and i do appreciate that too.

So, my motto is "If you feel we have helped - join as a Gold Member!"  I purposefully made the Gold Membership attractive with the Prize Draw, manuals and Sales/Wanted Forums as opposed to just going "cap in hand" and offering nothing in return. 

Even if i wasn't too bothered about using BeoWorld, £30 a year to be entered in 12 Prize Draws for what is on offer is a bargain!  £2.50 a month is absolutely nothing in the grand scale of our outgoings. We often spend more than that on one pint of beer!

Food for thought.

Lee

 

I spent all day Saturday in York with "the lads" on an end-of-season Jolly and I could have easily paid for three years membership instead.

at least the hangover is free...

don't confuse market share with quality

Flappo The Grate:

don't confuse market share with quality

look at bno , less than 0.1% of the market fer example and we all love them

while microsuck have 90+% of the os market and still can't produce anything remotely approaching os-x

even with their carbon copiers on full speed ahead

apple = bno

microsuck = amstrad

Here we go...........

Flappo The Grate:

don't confuse market share with quality
apple = bang & olufsen
microsoft = amstrad

I agree there are a lot of similarities between Apple and Bang & Olufsen...

van:

Flappo The Grate:

don't confuse market share with quality
apple = bang & olufsen
microsoft = amstrad

I agree there are a lot of similarities between Apple and Bang & Olufsen...

Don't encourage him!  

Lee, are the hit- and view-numbers similar to the old site? Do you have any data to compare with? Would be interesting...

Not entirely sure to be honest. These figures were never given to me, although i did ask a few times!

There is a reference to 24,000 hits a day on the old site somewhere, making 168,000 a week - but our webbies seem to think that was also counting the forums.

Lee

Peter:

van:

Flappo The Grate:

don't confuse market share with quality
apple = bang & olufsen
microsoft = amstrad

I agree there are a lot of similarities between Apple and Bang & Olufsen...

Don't encourage him!  

Can we please save the Apple = B&O comments for another thread.

Can't make his eyes blue! Or One could make a picture of oneself!

Nicholas:

Can we please save the Apple = B&O comments for another thread.

Nicholas