Unique Monthly Visits
This metric depicts the number of unique visitors to the forum each month during the period since the inception of AFF - currently sitting about the 90,000 level.
Registrations
The chart below tracks the number of new valid registrations each week since inception, compared by year. The peak experienced in the latter part of last year seems to be continuing at around the 450-500 a week level.
Bandwidth
The chart below shows the amount of bandwidth used by AFF on a daily basis in Mb per day. The current level is ~ 19.5 Gb per day in January and slightly less during February thus far.
Note: The format of these charts has been changed this month to provide a 3 year comparison based on average per day.
Responses
The chart below shows the number of server response requests per day. The current level is ~ 1.8 million per day for January.
Pages
The chart below shows the number of pages served per day. The current level is ~ 525,000 per day, slightly below the same time last year.
It's interesting to look at the data in the chart below which compares the raw numbers of the three key metrics between 2010 and 2008 -
.. in this we can see that while we have almost tripled the quantity of data being delivered, added 31% to the total responses (and added 14% to the number of unique visitors); the page count has only increased by 10.5%.
This suggests several things...
1. We are delivering more graphical content (which increases the data used for any given quantity of pages) - supported by the fact that the average data per page has gone from 14.5 to 36.9 Mb over the period. Some of this is in larger avatars, user tags and things like the reputation smilies as well as longer pages
2. Page loads have been reduced by the change to longer default page lengths for threads - supported by the fact that each visitor now loads 6 pages less per month than they did two years ago but has 80 more server responses
3. There are more non posting readers than we had at the same time two years ago
Cheers
Russ