LFGSS in numbers

We passed another milestone today, the site is still growing (it's never stopped growing) but I don't have great records of the rate of growth because I pay so little attention to the numbers.

The numbers are fascinating though... here are a few.

Totals:

• 1.45 million posts
  
• 44 thousand threads
  
• 17.5 thousand registered members
  
• 11.5 thousand active members (logged in within the last 30 days)
  
• 1 million pages indexed by Google
  
• According to Alexa we're inside the top 50k websites that exist
  
• According to Alexa we're the 3rd largest cycling forum in the world, and 13th largest cycling website in the world*
  
  

Each month (avg):

• 4.5 million pages viewed
  
• 500 thousand visits from 250 thousand visitors
  
• £500 in costs (mostly hosting)
  
  

Each day (avg):

• 17,000 > 18,000 visits
  
• 900 concurrent people online most evenings
  
• 2,235 new posts
  
• 60 new threads
  
• 25 new members
  
• £11 in donations
  
• 60 thousand pages indexed by Google
  
• 15 thousand search results shown on Google
  
• 2.5 thousands click-throughs from Google search results
  
  

Miscellaneous:

• During registration, 10% bail with every page in the registration process

• Bear in mind that we changed from londonfgss.com to lfgss.com only 6 months ago, and that wipes out all history as well as breaking all simple pagerank from in-bound links.

The numbers really just say this place rocks. Now, where's my boat?

Boggle boggle boggle.

Each day (avg):

[*]£11 in donations

11.5k active members = £11/day in donations

That's 110 people each doing the £3 per month "buy the forum a beer" donation.

110 people out of 11,500.

0.9% of active members are regular donors.

That is a shockingly low number.

[]According to Alexa we're inside the top 50k websites that exist
[]According to Alexa we're the 3rd largest cycling forum in the world, and 13th largest cycling website in the world*

The numbers really just say this place rocks. Now, where's my boat?

These really are fantastic stats you must be very proud

Absolutely astounding...

wow! didn't realise it was that busy.

I'm working on getting the post number up and the thread count down.. merge
Can we have a member cull now?

Can you merge members?

:)

Which are the two biggest cycling forums then if we are third?

Mums net

IoMFGSS?

3408 uses of the word 'racist'

cyclingforums.com and um.. bikeforums.com I'd guess.

Yep..

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Sports/Cycling/Chats_and_Forums

IoMFGSS?

Total menbers (sic) 2.

VB, we iz gunnin fo U.

11.5k active members = £11/day in donations

That's 110 people each doing the £3 per month "buy the forum a beer" donation.

110 people out of 11,500.

0.9% of active members are regular donors.

That is a shockingly low number.

Not really... the average doesn't reflect the occasional spike in donations. Whilst the regular donations only make up 1/2 of the monthly costs, when things do get bad and I ask for donations we get a sudden spike which can bring in several months worth of donations in one go. I've calculated the average over the last 12 months and in the last 1 month the average is closer to £27 per day, but this is due to a spike mid-month when I appealed for some help, and that has put us back into the black. I didn't want to give that average though as it doesn't reflect the norm, that would just reflect the spike.

The difference between donations and costs has usually been covered by a combination of: SJS, affiliate click-throughs, and me. Though since I mentioned that in place of SJS we would run a single advert slot in the banner, there has been so much interested in this that I suspect that the single advert slot would comfortably cover nearly all costs in the future even whilst only charging peanuts to most advertisers (it will have a dual economy, if you're an independent cycling business with a presence on the forum you will pay peanuts, and if you're not then you will pay something between peanuts and regular commercial rates).

VB, i thank you for your site. It has allowed me to meet friends i would never have met other wise.

Great site! And the statz show it!

ROCK ON LFGSS!!

Each day (avg):

• 17,000 > 18,000 visits
  
• 900 concurrent people online most evenings
  
• 2,235 new posts
  
• 60 new threads
  
• 25 new members
  
• £11 in donations
  
• 60 thousand pages indexed by Google
  
• 15 thousand search results shown on Google
  
• 2.5 thousands click-throughs from Google search results
  
  

thank god for hippy without whom this site wouldn't be possible

3408 uses of the word 'racist'

3411 now.

Only 1246 uses of UTFS and I know this because I did.

im amazed that there are 60 new threads a day. What the f***k are people starting for???

because not everything has ever been discussed.
do you suggest we have one thread to cover everything?

i know hippy is trying to make this happen, but don't give him any encouragement.

3411 now.

Only 1246 uses of UTFS and I know this because I did.

1248.

UTFS.

(That is my first)

Interesting stuff. Shame to donations don't cover the costs..