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What do these numbers say now? Is this site a dying relic to 2007s hottest trend or are cargo bikes breathing new life into some near dead dogs?
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Great timing on asking.
And probably yes... a dying relic like most of us are as we age towards 30, 40, 50 or God forbid 60 or more.
The great timing is that yesterday I started to research how to upgrade the ancient database from PostgreSQL 9.2 all the way through to PostgreSQL 14, as well as updating the machines themselves from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
I'm doing this so that I can make a demo of a Grafana feature, I need demo data and these servers can provide that. But... I've also thought about how Rapha ask me every year for engagement numbers, and how I could answer that more easily with a Grafana dashboard. So over the next week or so I am going to be making a Grafana dashboard to summarise where the site is at now... and it will be able to supply the information for this thread too.
Velocio
Totals:
5.5m comments
170k conversations
588 events
55k registered members
17k active members (logged in within the last 30 days)
645k pages indexed by Google (I removed duplicate comment pages via robots.txt)
Each month (avg):
7.1m pages viewed (if comparing to old vBulletin numbers, this site has fewer interstitials on redirects and page views is approximately triple the old numbers in the first post of this conversation)
890k visits (sessions) from about about 145k users (better measurement than it used to be, unique cookies over visits, rather than calculated approximation)
£740 costs
Each day:
22k unique visitors
More than 1,100 concurrent people online
2,700 new comments
60 new conversations
35 new members
£18 in donations
50k pages indexed by Google
18k search results shown on Google
4k click-throughs from Google
Some of these numbers come from Google Analytics, which doesn't have complete info (ad-blockers, natch), but additionally:
71% of traffic comes from desktop browsers
29% from mobile phones
0% from other stuff (tablets, games consoles, TVs, whatever)
Overall from this... costs have risen (predominantly due to currency exchange rate against USD and EUR not being favourable and most services are paid in USD or EUR), donations have declined (only fractionally, but it's still break even so it's fine), the core users are using the site more (page views) but there's probably fewer new users participating so average daily comment count has dropped slightly, there are still new people joining at the same rate, but the number of guest visitors from Google has dropped.
LFGSS has probably peaked. It probably was earlier this Summer. That's OK too... was always going to happen one day :)