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[frax]

I had totally forgotten that Nick has given me access to the web stats for CartoTalk - when I looked at it today I saw that visits are up 250% since last year, when comparing oct-nov. Now we have some 800-1000 visitors per day.

[Matthew Hampton]

Woohoo!

It would be interesting to figure out the ratio of hits from bots vs. real live people interested in cartography. Has the membership increased significantly in that same time period?

[Matthew Hampton]

I just calculated a 241% increase in membership for that same two-month period (Oct - Nov) between 2007 and 2008.

Another interesting graphical statistic is the distribution of topic views (see below) for this whole last year.
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[Rob]

interesting. i knew the gis threads were high. i think the level of help/responsivness def has some people posting things here rather than the other gis boards. which is good imho.

[frax]

Matt, this is google analytics - which is javascript based, and not based on the web server log files. This means that this is almost exclusively real browser visits - it probably even misses a few (browsers without javascript, or javascript turned off - like mobile phones). I can pull out more stats from there if you want to. I saw that page views were up too, with a magnitude similar to visits.

Don't know about recurring visits or time spent on site, need to look at that...