[Closed] 1,007,195 Unique Users visited us in the last month

whatever

Impressive! Got a breakdown by page eg is it the news or forum pages that draw people in?

So even after the fabled evictions, about 1,007,000 people visited and didn't come to the forum!!

What is that as a percentage change from when the rogues were here?

Majority in the forum as it happens, in terms of page impressions at least.

Growth in the last 12 months has been from just under 600k to a million.

Nice response there Pie, let the Singletrack bashing begin 😉

Its folk wanting to see if the Rapha jeans / VW Transporter / Whyte PSRT4 DH bike have sold yet.

What is a unique visitor, Mark?

Sounds good, whatever this means. Congrats!

timing is everything

Always wondered if I was unique, now it's been confirmed.
Imagine that, over a million unique people doing the same thing... 😉

Nice response their Pie, let the Singletrack bashing begin

there, not "their". And you're the editor?

{No, I am. All fixed now. Chipps}

Well done, but they aren't unique - they are all middling (IT) managers with an Audi, a coffee maker and set of "chef's" knives.

😉

That's one hell of a lot of procrastinating instead of riding being done!

Unique user is an individual IP address as measured by Google (It's not us doing any measuring). The Google report states '1,007,195 people visited this site...'. But I don't say that. All that can be measured is IP addresses or in basic terms, individual computers*

* I know it's not quite as simple as that and there's all sorts of things that alter the numbers, like 1 IP = lots of people on a network at work or IP addresses changing each time some users login etc... But as far as the internet is concerned a Unique user is at least a reasonably standard measure that can be used to make comparisons between websites. So it's as close an approximation to a measure of people as is generally available.

[i]there, not "their". And you're the editor?[/i]

That's Chipps, keep up.

Hmm interesting and er well done

How are unique visitor figure generated?

If it's by IP address then unless people visiting the forum have a persistent IP they would generate a unique IP address the next time they visit - no?

Google Analytics uses Cookies to track you....

there, not "their". And you're the editor?

Unique visitors by cookie and up address? Sadly, the growth in mobile devices is making this number a bit difficult to assign weight to. I'm not sure how that one can be resolved other than by enforcing log on.

Thanks Mark, my question was a genuine one. I was wondering if it referred to activity levels or other factors. That makes sense, and suggests that all is going well with STW! Good to see.

Although as I block Google Analytics from saving Cookies and running scripts, I'll appear as a unique visitor each time I visit 😉

Google Analytics uses Cookies to track you....

I stand corrected then. Tom's just confirmed that too 🙂 I guess that's better than IP addresses
and more accurate. Bonus! I'm even happier now 🙂

Can we get them all to jump up and down at the same time?

You are ALL individuals!

🙂

This news makes me so angry....

Although as I block Google Analytics from saving Cookies and running scripts, I'll appear as a unique visitor each time I visit

Likewise.

Aren't you supposed to publish your cookie policy more clearly now?

So serious question then.

How busy does that make STW compared to similar sites.

Eg other cycling sites or wider forums in general?

95% by mistake, they were looking for singlemuslims site.always top of my search list.Should stop deleting my browser history(for manly reasons nudgenudge winkwink)

[i]I'm even happier now[/i]

you'll have to buy a new tag 😉

Well done to the stw team - you put a lot of work into the site and put up with a lot of, errrm, dissent from people on here.

If anyone wants to know how Google do their complex calculations.
[url= http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2731565 ]How Visits are Calculated in Analytics[/url]

I'm unique four times then.

Phone/iPad/Home PC/Work PC

IP addresses are pretty hopeless for tracking people e.g. Cambridge University has 30k students who will all share a dozen or so IPs to browse the web from college systems.

I'm even happier now

you'll have to buy a new tag

I'm sure it's only temporary 🙂

You are ALL individuals!

seemingly we are not

we are a number

etc etc

You are ALL individuals!

I am Robert Paulson.

Look, however it's calculated, there are folk in wherever stw is based with erections that'll last all week. And for that, we should be thankful.

There's a good website to look at if you want to make comparisons..
www.alexa.com

I think it's actually owned by Google. You can make relative comparisons between any website on there.

The caveat with that site is that the stats all come from a downloaded toolbar installed on users browsers. As such the sample size will be restricted. But it's still an interesting way to judge the traffic of a website and we've noticed that it does seem to match a lot of our own measured numbers too.

How have you found the near doubling over the last year to have affected bounce rate, I would expect it to have gone up but what sort of percentage?

Likewise how has time on site changed?

[/analytics geek]

So if I login from home, from my iPhone and from my work PC I take it that counts as 3 'individual users'?

Anyway whay matters is that the figures are going in the right direction, the absolute number doesn't matter.

Look, however it's calculated, there are folk in wherever stw is based with erections that'll last all week. And for that, we should be thankful.

Will make for some [s]tumescent[/s] interesting photoshoots.

So, so angry...

Bounce rate has increased by 7% over this time last year. The current rate is in the report in the story on the front page. Time on site is in there too. That has dropped by about a minute over this time last year. Again the current rate is in the report 🙂

So that's 1 million [i]unique [/i]users and twice as many identikit users with an Audi, a woodburner, a rigid singlespeed 29er, a malt whisky collection and a coffee fetish?

a typical visit lasting 6 minutes and 41 seconds.

I'm curious as to how that figure is arrived at. Far as I know, there's no auto-refresh on forum pages; so you can't readily tell the difference between a reader opening a single page and then immediately closing it, and another sitting there gazing at it for half an hour. Presumably then, it's a best guess based on when perceived activity stops.

Time on site will be less now that there are only 35 posts per page as it'll take less time to read. Mind you, that will have increased page impressions, so it's not all bad.

I'm curious as to how that figure is arrived at.

Google 'Google Analytics' it's all there and you can add it to your website for free.....

So if I login from home, from my iPhone and from my work PC I take it that counts as 3 'individual users'?

For now yes. Unless Singletrack have signed up to the Universal Analytics Beta.

Soon Google are dropping tracking users by cookies and switching to user ID's which will allow tracking of individuals across multiple devices.

Bounce rate has increased by 7% over this time last year.

Bounce rate has increased by 7% over this time last year.

That's not bad at all, I'd have expected it to be higher.

Google 'Google Analytics' it's all there and you can add it to your website for free.....

I skim-read the link posted earlier and didn't see that specific question answered. I'm curious, but I don't care enough to wade through a ream of documentation to find out.

Does this mean the hamster have got a bonus for the year? Some little chocolate treats or a bit of oil on their wheel? Maybe even time off for good behaviour where they can roam the office in a hamster ball?

I dont know what any of this means but, given how pleased you are with it all [ never seen so many staff on one thread], well done

They're not actually staff - they just paid some bloke a fiver for a new tag

Pretty good going. Well done.

No surprises here...excellent website 😀

Actually, mickey pulling aside, that's good going. 🙂

Actually, mickey pulling aside, that's good going.

[i]They[/i] have got to you as well now?

We're all using Tor, it's about 60 individuals really.

identikit users with an Audi, a woodburner, a rigid singlespeed 29er, a malt whisky collection and a coffee fetish?

How very dare you, I haven't got a 29er...

Impressive however you calculate it.

Well done you lot.

"clap hands smilie required"

The current rate is in the report in the story on the front page

There's a front page?! 😉

Yeah it's where the the rest of us hangout. Has no one told you about it? Ah! er.. awkward...

😉

You are ALL individuals!

except for me..!! 😛

This guy [url= http://www.analytics-ninja.com/blog/2011/12/how-unique-are-unique-visitors-in-google-analytics.html ]here[/url] worked out how to narrow the figure down to get the value pretty much bang on by comparing the stats between logged on/logged off visits, thus answering the "I log on via numerous devices" question.

DavidB - Yes, for his site but the process would have to be carried out for every site on order for it to be a useful figure. What's important in web stats is normally comparison between sites. So as long as we are all measuring the same thing, we can compare.

Personally I always thought pageviews and visits were more useful comparators, but unless I can persuade the rest of the web and advertising industries that doesn't really mean much.

If you mean pageviews to visits ratio then I agree. As an advertiser I would want to see a site where lots of users spend a lot of time (which is what you get if you reduce your unique visitors figure 😉 )

Monday was our busiest day in history. 80,025 visits. We have now gone over 2 million visits in the last month.

If you wave your willy around for much longer Mark, it'll fall off

when it's so big what else is one supposed to do 🙂

So when do you up the advertising rates? 😉

[b]Mark[/b] - technical question - what's at the back end of STW (if you can disclose such things)? Cloud based virtual server? Dedicated physical server? Multiple virtual/physical?

when it's so big what else is one supposed to do

Ah, that's just the swelling due to frostbite - you should probably get to hospital about that

This suggests a flaw in the theory that a million monkeys with a million typewriters will reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Then again, only a tiny fraction of us 'users' post in the forums.

Then again, only a tiny fraction of us 'users' post in the forums.

We should renegotiate our rates with STW Towers as it's obvious we're under paid right now.....

Hmmm, another banana [i]would[/i] come in handy.