Random ChiefsPlanet Stats

[brorth]

Brorth,
Where are we sitting?

Looks like a little less than 400 left.

[Gonzo]

Looks like a little less than 400 left.

Thanks

[DaFace]

In case anyone cares, we were at 1,028,921 posts for the year as of last night at midnight. If anyone wants to try and guess our total for the year, feel free to post it in this thread. All entries must be submitted by midnight of December 27.

I haven't decided what the prize should be, but I'm open to suggestions. I'm thinking 100k in Casino Cash or a one-month pass to the mod forum as possibilities. The latter is pretty boring on a day-to-day basis, but there are some pretty funny threads in there from "back in the day."

[OnTheWarpath58]

In case anyone cares, we were at 1,028,921 posts for the year as of last night at midnight. If anyone wants to try and guess our total for the year, feel free to post it in this thread. All entries must be submitted by midnight of December 27.

I haven't decided what the prize should be, but I'm open to suggestions. I'm thinking 100k in Casino Cash or a one-month pass to the mod forum as possibilities. The latter is pretty boring on a day-to-day basis, but there are some pretty funny threads in there from "back in the day."

1,049,777

[Bugeater]

1,051,100

[DaFace]

Well, I didn't get much of a chance to promote my latest game, so it looks like Bugeater and OTWP are the only ones in the running for the all-access, one-month pass to the mod forum. :)

Still, if any of the rest of you want to try and guess without calculating it manually, I might throw something good in the direction of the person who comes closest from this point on if the spirit moves me.

Happy New Year all.

[kstater]

1051101

[DaFace]

1051101

Oohhh...the dirty "price is right" move. I think I'd have to bitch slap someone if I were ever on the show and they did that.

[kstater]

Oohhh...the dirty "price is right" move. I think I'd have to bitch slap someone if I were ever on the show and they did that.

Quit bumping the thread, the only way I win is if the thread dies until midnight.

[Bearcat]

Well, I didn't get much of a chance to promote my latest game, so it looks like Bugeater and OTWP are the only ones in the running for the all-access, one-month pass to the mod forum. :)

Still, if any of the rest of you want to try and guess without calculating it manually, I might throw something good in the direction of the person who comes closest from this point on if the spirit moves me.

Happy New Year all.

1,050,438

[JOhn]

1051103

[crazycoffey]

1051103


Did we make it?

[stumppy]

I gonna go with a firm gazillion. And a half.

[DaFace]

Sorry. I crapped out early and am just now looking at the numbers. The grand total is...

(drum roll please!)

1,049,203

Not bad considering that our total for last year was only 850,617. That's an increase of 23 percent over our previous high.

Congrats to OWTP for getting closest AND meeting the deadline! Enjoy your 100k in casino cash and one-month pass to the mod forum!

[DaFace]

For anyone who cares, here's the final post graph of the year:

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1963/final09stats.jpg (http://img97.imageshack.us/i/final09stats.jpg/)

As you can see, this year is really a continuation of a jump in posting that happened at the beginning of the 08 season. Not sure exactly what happened there, but that's really where things started to tilt toward a 1-million-post year.

[DaFace]

Here's another interesting chart. This shows the average number of users who logged per day for each year. The software didn't track it in the early years, but it's an interesting stat for the later years:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/704/useractivity123109.jpg (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/useractivity123109.jpg/)

The interesting thing to me is that we've got fewer actual users logging in per day. I'd guess that has a lot to do with the fact that the team sucks and, just like Arrowhead, fewer people are coming around.

However, the fact that our post rate has been through the roof indicates that the people we DO have are talking more. A lot more. So that's kind of cool I guess.

Anyway, that's all I got for now. I'll probably take a few months off to let 2010 get going before posting any more updates. If anyone has any specific requests or anything, let me know.

[BossChief]

So 2009 had 25% more posts since I signed up huh?

You're welcome!!!

ROFL <-----the laughing icon indicates a joke...something not to be taken seriously.

How about new memberships? Did they go up as well as opposed to the last five or so years?

[DaFace]

So 2009 had over 200,000 more posts than any previous year and I got here last year.

You're welcome!!!

ROFL <-----the laughing icon indicates a joke...something not to be taken seriously.

How about new memberships? Did they go up as well as opposed to the last five or so years?

Hmm....that's a good question. Let me see if I can dig that out.

A warning before anything, though, is that new user stats will undoubtedly be impacted pretty severely by users like Marlboro Chief. He's probably been banned 20 times this year alone. Still, it should be interesting if I can get to it.

[Bugeater]

Sorry. I crapped out early and am just now looking at the numbers. The grand total is...

(drum roll please!)

1,049,203

Not bad considering that our total for last year was only 850,617. That's an increase of 23 percent over our previous high.

Congrats to OWTP for getting closest AND meeting the deadline! Enjoy your 100k in casino cash and one-month pass to the mod forum!
Damn, I knew RoR leaving would cost me, that's a loss of at least 1,000 posts.

[RJ]

[QUOTE=DaFace;6396879]
Not bad considering that our total for last year was only 850,617. That's an increase of 23 percent over our previous high.
QUOTE]



It's the economy. Why go out to the bar and spend a lot of money when you can drink at home and post on Chiefs Planet?

[DaFace]

OK, I found a way to get to it (mostly) by doing a search for users by join date and seeing the number of results. This will omit the (very seldom) user account that's been deleted (rather than banned), but that shouldn't impact more than 1-2 users per year I don't think.

2005 - 2,006
2006 - 1,525
2007 - 1,105
2008 - 1,680
2009 - 1,350

So, we actually had a relatively LOW year in terms of new users. Once again, I probably blame part of that on the shitty team.

Even with the low number of new users, I'd say based on the results of the "n00b of the year" contest, the quality of our n00bs was pretty good this year, and that's worth something.

[BossChief]

OK, I found a way to get to it (mostly) by doing a search for users by join date and seeing the number of results. This will omit the (very seldom) user account that's been deleted (rather than banned), but that shouldn't impact more than 1-2 users per year I don't think.

2005 - 2,006
2006 - 1,525
2007 - 1,105
2008 - 1,680
2009 - 1,350

So, we actually had a relatively LOW year in terms of new users. Once again, I probably blame part of that on the shitty team.

Even with the low number of new users, I'd say based on the results of the "n00b of the year" contest, the quality of our n00bs was pretty good this year, and that's worth something.
I try to bring the pain (and the beer)

[Mr. Plow]

Boom. I was part of the EPIC 2005 class.

[OnTheWarpath58]

Sorry. I crapped out early and am just now looking at the numbers. The grand total is...

(drum roll please!)

1,049,203

Not bad considering that our total for last year was only 850,617. That's an increase of 23 percent over our previous high.

Congrats to OWTP for getting closest AND meeting the deadline! Enjoy your 100k in casino cash and one-month pass to the mod forum!

I was wondering why I had access to that forum all of a sudden...

ROFL

On a side note, shouldn't I have access to it anyway, since I'm a mod in DraftPlanet?

Anyway, thanks!

[DaFace]

I was wondering why I had access to that forum all of a sudden...

ROFL

On a side note, shouldn't I have access to it anyway, since I'm a mod in DraftPlanet?

Anyway, thanks!

Eh, sure. As you've probably seen, it's not really that exciting of a place to be anyway.

[OnTheWarpath58]

Eh, sure. As you've probably seen, it's not really that exciting of a place to be anyway.

Not terribly, but it is nice to confirm who's running around here with mults.

[Buck]

Not terribly, but it is nice to confirm who's running around here with mults.

I'm guessing Dane has a mult or two.

MOTHERFUCKRE

Hey, DaFace, what are we on pace for this year?

[Bugeater]

I'm guessing Dane has a mult or two.

What the fuck do you know about me? Go fuck yourself.

[Buck]

What the fuck do you know about me? Go fuck yourself.

I know that you have a trophy wife, with 6 hotties waiting in line. Your son is the future QB of the best team in the NFL. Also, fuel naturally becomes unleaded when you are near it.

[DaFace]

I'm guessing Dane has a mult or two.

MOTHERFUCKRE

Hey, DaFace, what are we on pace for this year?

I'll run the stats after the month is over. It takes a bit more work to set it up the first time. If I don't have it done by next Tuesday or so, bump this thread and tell me to get off my ass.

[DaFace]

OK, Buck, here ya go.

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/8681/stats013110.jpg (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/stats013110.jpg/)

It's pretty hard to really tell anything from that graph, but the basic idea is that we're trending almost exactly in line for last year so far. We had 100,161 posts in January 2010 and 99,383 last year, so technically we were up about 1 percent for the year so far.

My prediction is that this year will be much slower than last year due to a number of factors, but we'll see.

[cdcox]

My prediction is that this year will be much slower than last year due to a number of factors, but we'll see.

Given that we are up this year over last, when we had all the drama over the new GM, new coach, etc, it seems like we could have another good year.

[DaFace]

Given that we are up this year over last, when we had all the drama over the new GM, new coach, etc, it seems like we could have another good year.

True. My thinking is that the "new coach smell" will really start to wear off after the season officially ends. Less speculation about the coaching staff, potential players, etc. But then, it really seems like the driving force behind forum traffic these days is NOT necessarily the Chiefs, so who knows?

I guess I just don't want to assume we're going to have another million-post year when that could have all been caused by all the changes.

[DaFace]

Slowed down a bit this month. Nothing special to report. Just figured I'd update the chart.

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/6439/statsfeb10.png (http://img693.imageshack.us/i/statsfeb10.png/)

[-King-]

Slowed down a bit this month. Nothing special to report. Just figured I'd update the chart.

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/6439/statsfeb10.png (http://img693.imageshack.us/i/statsfeb10.png/)

All those blues look alike...

[bevischief]

All those blues look alike...

Glad I am not the only one...:D

[AustinChief]

Slowed down a bit this month. Nothing special to report. Just figured I'd update the chart.



On a related note, our fairly insignificant ad revenue is actually up from last year. For some reason, google adsense has decided to pay us more per click/impression than last year. Still not close to server costs but after I (hopefully) launch a few more planets after the draft... maybe we'll eb at break even!

[DaFace]

For those who might care, here's the latest graph:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4334/marchstats2010.png (http://img522.imageshack.us/i/marchstats2010.png/)

Interestingly, while our posting rate is down for the year, our average daily user activity is actually up about 5% from last year. So, more people are logging in, but they just aren't posting quite as much. I blame ROR for a lack of post whoring this year.

[bevischief]

For those who might care, here's the latest graph:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4334/marchstats2010.png (http://img522.imageshack.us/i/marchstats2010.png/)

Interestingly, while our posting rate is down for the year, our average daily user activity is actually up about 5% from last year. So, more people are logging in, but they just aren't posting quite as much. I blame ROR for a lack of post whoring this year.

ROFL

[DaFace]

Well, we've definitely slowed down this year. I guess the offseason is less interesting when there's not a new regime in town. Anyway, here's the latest chart:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7692/july2010.png (http://img213.imageshack.us/i/july2010.png/)

It'll be interesting to see how things shape up when the season gets going. Currently, we're about 80k lower than we were at this point last year, so I'm curious to see if the gap widens or shrinks as the season starts.

[SPchief]

I think that posting might start to go up a little, the Monday night game will probably bring a good thread to start the season and there's a little more optimism going into the year. I don't know if it'll be enough to cover 80000 posts but if they go on a run who knows what will happen. And theres also the Tebow factor.

[-King-]

Well, we've definitely slowed down this year. I guess the offseason is less interesting when there's not a new regime in town. Anyway, here's the latest chart:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7692/july2010.png (http://img213.imageshack.us/i/july2010.png/)

It'll be interesting to see how things shape up when the season gets going. Currently, we're about 80k lower than we were at this point last year, so I'm curious to see if the gap widens or shrinks as the season starts.

Well, I assume the 495859 threads made by drafturbators about Cassell and Tyson last year had something to do with the number of posts.

[Bo's Pelini]

Well, we've definitely slowed down this year. I guess the offseason is less interesting when there's not a new regime in town. Anyway, here's the latest chart:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7692/july2010.png (http://img213.imageshack.us/i/july2010.png/)

It'll be interesting to see how things shape up when the season gets going. Currently, we're about 80k lower than we were at this point last year, so I'm curious to see if the gap widens or shrinks as the season starts.

Well it's not every year you hire a 3 time super bowl GM. I think the excitement has gone down a bit but an exciting season will make this place more interesting.

[Buck]

We need Skip back.

[Bugeater]

That's not surprising at all really, this place has been fairly slow all summer.

[Rausch]

I've been posting less...

[Buck]

That's not surprising at all really, this place has been fairly slow all summer.

Last year was the greatest offseason ever, so yeah, it is expected.

[DaFace]

No major changes this past month. Here's the latest graph before the season really ramps up:

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3063/septstats.png (http://img137.imageshack.us/i/septstats.png/)

One thing that isn't shown on that graph that I find interesting is that our average daily users stat is so far this year is virtually identical to last year. However, we're always busier in the fall, so that means we'll probably have a higher daily user count this year than we did last year once the year ends.

Translating all that, we actually have more active users this year than last year. We just aren't posting as much.

[FAX]

I'd prefer a titty graph, but if you hold that one sideways it kind of looks like the fringe on a Denver girl's sweater as she's trying to make glue out of tree sap and saliva.

FAX

[-King-]

WTF @ 2009. Damn!

[DaFace]

Still no major uptick in posting this year. Apparently, there's more to talk about when we're losing. :shrug:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3344/sept10stats.png (http://img101.imageshack.us/i/sept10stats.png/)

[-King-]

Still no major uptick in posting this year. Apparently, there's more to talk about when we're losing. :shrug:

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3344/sept10stats.png (http://img101.imageshack.us/i/sept10stats.png/)

Well duh. Mecca and some other posters would have like 500 more posts now if we were losing.

[kstater]

I had a Mecca joke, but it's been used already.

[Buck]

Is there any way you can add a vbulletin theme that is dark so that instead of White and red/yellow its dark grey with black and white letters?

It'd be easier on the eyes.

[DaFace]

Is there any way you can add a vbulletin theme that is dark so that instead of White and red/yellow its dark grey with black and white letters?

It'd be easier on the eyes.

The short answer is that would be an enormous pain in the ass. It's taken years of tweaking to get our current theme just right.

[Simply Red]

The short answer is that would be an enormous pain in the ass. It's taken years of tweaking to get our current theme just right.

hey DaFace, What type/brand server juices this puppy? I've always wondered this.

[AustinChief]

hey DaFace, What type/brand server juices this puppy? I've always wondered this.

There is no "brand" it's a linux server if that is what you are asking....

[DaFace]

hey DaFace, What type/brand server juices this puppy? I've always wondered this.

I don't know for sure - I don't believe it's branded. It's hosted by http://www.theplanet.com/ for what that's worth.

EDIT: It must be a Dell server. Here are the specs:

Generic 2048 MB
Generic 2048 MB
Intel 1.86 GHz 1066FSB - Conroe
Maxtor 250GB:SATA:7200RPM
Unknown Onboard
Dell Single socket 1067FSB - Quad Core Capable

[Simply Red]

I don't know for sure - I don't believe it's branded. It's hosted by http://www.theplanet.com/ for what that's worth.

EDIT: It must be a Dell server. Here are the specs:

Generic 2048 MB
Generic 2048 MB
Intel 1.86 GHz 1066FSB - Conroe
Maxtor 250GB:SATA:7200RPM
Unknown Onboard
Dell Single socket 1067FSB - Quad Core Capable

Probably a PowerEdge. That's cool, just wondering.

[DaFace]

In all of the fun with the server move, I forgot all about updating the graph last month. So, here's the latest:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5042/stats20101207.png (http://img689.imageshack.us/i/stats20101207.png/)

Not much of a change from the overall trend of the year. Our posts are down a bit from last year, though we're still well above the 2008 and prior numbers. Interestingly, our average daily users is actually up this year (higher than every year except 2007), which basically means that we've got more people logging in, but they're reading more than they're posting. The server issues could be a small part of that, but the overall trend wouldn't be that severely affected by the server.

Anyway, we'll probably end up at around 900k posts for the year, give or take a few thousand.

[ArrowheadHawk]

In all of the fun with the server move, I forgot all about updating the graph last month. So, here's the latest:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5042/stats20101207.png (http://img689.imageshack.us/i/stats20101207.png/)

Not much of a change from the overall trend of the year. Our posts are down a bit from last year, though we're still well above the 2008 and prior numbers. Interestingly, our average daily users is actually up this year (higher than every year except 2007), which basically means that we've got more people logging in, but they're reading more than they're posting. The server issues could be a small part of that, but the overall trend wouldn't be that severely affected by the server.

Anyway, we'll probably end up at around 900k posts for the year, give or take a few thousand.We should kick it into gear so we can hit 1 Mil.

[Rams Fan]

DaFace, did CP reach 1,000,000 million posts in 2010?

[DaFace]

Heh...I'd kind of slacked off on this thread. Oh well.

Anyway, we ended up with 912,205 posts for 2010. We're also trending downward this year as well, as shown in the current chart:

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4421/aprilstats.png (http://img268.imageshack.us/i/aprilstats.png/)

Interestingly, we have a higher daily active users average this year than we ever have. That may be a seasonality thing (summer months are slow), but it could also mean that we've got a lot of lurkers these days.

Anyway, that's what I got.

[Rams Fan]

Heh...I'd kind of slacked off on this thread. Oh well.

Anyway, we ended up with 912,205 posts for 2010. We're also trending downward this year as well, as shown in the current chart:

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4421/aprilstats.png (http://img268.imageshack.us/i/aprilstats.png/)

Interestingly, we have a higher daily active users average this year than we ever have. That may be a seasonality thing (summer months are slow), but it could also mean that we've got a lot of lurkers these days.

Anyway, that's what I got.

Oh crap.

The Planet's dying!11!1!1

[DaFace]

BossChief's posts over on the Coalition made me remember that I haven't updated this in a while. So just in case anyone cares...

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9291/stats20111013.png

Looks like we're replicating last year's pace for the most part. We were a little slower in the offseason this year with no football to talk about, but we've caught up recently. Still, 2009 looks to have been a major anomaly. Apparently crappy teams beget a lot of discussion. :shrug:

[luv]

BossChief's posts over on the Coalition made me remember that I haven't updated this in a while. So just in case anyone cares...

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9291/stats20111013.png

Looks like we're replicating last year's pace for the most part. We were a little slower in the offseason this year with no football to talk about, but we've caught up recently. Still, 2009 looks to have been a major anomaly. Apparently crappy teams beget a lot of bitching.
FYP

[DaFace]

FYP

Yeah, probably true. The interesting thing about 2009 is that it was actually lower than 2010 in terms of the number of people who were logging in every day (870 vs. 888). So it wasn't that we had more PEOPLE here so much as it was that we had more DISCUSSION going on.

We're running at 860 at the moment for this year, but that's increasing since we're in the season at the moment.

[BossChief]

BossChief's posts over on the Coalition made me remember that I haven't updated this in a while. So just in case anyone cares...

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9291/stats20111013.png

Looks like we're replicating last year's pace for the most part. We were a little slower in the offseason this year with no football to talk about, but we've caught up recently. Still, 2009 looks to have been a major anomaly. Apparently crappy teams beget a lot of discussion. :shrug:

haha

and what do I get for some honest feedback?

BANNED

Butthurt bitches that I left is all it is.

[BossChief]

Yeah, probably true. The interesting thing about 2009 is that it was actually lower than 2010 in terms of the number of people who were logging in every day (870 vs. 888). So it wasn't that we had more PEOPLE here so much as it was that we had more DISCUSSION going on.

We're running at 860 at the moment for this year, but that's increasing since we're in the season at the moment.

Let me go ahead and apologize for all the braindead n00bs that are gonna show up over the coming months.

It should make it fun to blast away the the influx, though.

[DaFace]

Let me go ahead and apologize for all the braindead n00bs that are gonna show up over the coming months.

It should make it fun to blast away the the influx, though.

Eh, whatever. It's entirely possible to be a n00b here and get along just fine. Hell, I became an admin here after only being around for 2 years. It's just people who are 1) are not very objective and 2) aren't humble that take a lot of abuse.

[BossChief]

Eh, whatever. It's entirely possible to be a n00b here and get along just fine. Hell, I became an admin here after only being around for 2 years. It's just people who are 1) are not very objective and 2) aren't humble that take a lot of abuse.

So, basically drafturbators and their wannabes then?

;)

...

Also, thinking about it, you may want to run a few adds for "shiny things" on here....they will probably be a big hit.

[DaFace]

Just because I think this is funny in a stats geek sort of way:

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3513/cpstats20111023.png

[Buck]

Glendavislickinglips.gif

[Predarat]

Postwhoring FTW!

[DaFace]

It's been forever since I've updated this, so here ya go.

http://i.imgur.com/wSBuD.png

Interestingly, we're following almost the exact same post patterns this year as we did in 2010. I also think it's interesting that, for the past four years, we've stayed almost exactly the same in terms of how many people log in each day (between 867 and 887 on average each year).

One kind of interesting factoid that I'd forgotten about is that we had two record days in a row in terms of posts back on October 20-21 (12,359 and 14,046 respectively). You can actually see the bump in the blue line in the graph. Prior to that, the old record was 7,317 set on September 7, 2008.

I can't remember the exact circumstances, but I think it had to do with one of the Survivor Planet games or something like that. Anyway, I'd be surprised if we break

[Buck]

If you guys make the playoffs or at least are in the running all year, there can be a huge boos. WTF happened in 2009?

[DaFace]

If you guys make the playoffs or at least are in the running all year, there can be a huge boos. WTF happened in 2009?

I could be wrong, but I think that was the year that this place was so polarized by the "Drafturbators" and "True Fans." The only thing I can think of is that those repeated arguments drove the post count through the roof. As mentioned above, we've been pretty much flat in terms of the number of people active on the site for a while now.

[Bowser]

Well, that graph is going to take a shit with SR, Beer Me, and Thig Lyfe gone.

[Inmem58]

Well, that graph is going to take a shit with SR, Beer Me, and Thig Lyfe gone.

I can see a major drop since Joey and Hootie left.

[Sofa King]

Well, that graph is going to take a shit with SR, Beer Me, and Thig Lyfe gone.

and no more MTG relationship threads.

[Bowser]

and no more MTG relationship threads.

Excellent point.

[Rams Fan]

I can't remember the exact circumstances, but I think it had to do with one of the Survivor Planet games or something like that. Anyway, I'd be surprised if we break

Nah, there were 2 threads that had an insane same amount of post whoring that were then locked and deleted.

[DaFace]

FWIW, September 23rd was the highest day by posts in CP history (8,067) aside from the two days that were dominated by joey's survivor post-whoring threads. Apparently winning a game made us talkative. :shrug:

[FAX]

FWIW, September 23rd was the highest day by posts in CP history (8,067) aside from the two days that were dominated by joey's survivor post-whoring threads. Apparently winning a game made us talkative. :shrug:

ROFL

Just curious, but was Mr. BlackBob still with us on that day, Mr. DaFace?

FAX

[DaFace]

ROFL

Just curious, but was Mr. BlackBob still with us on that day, Mr. DaFace?

FAX

Believe it or not - no. He got dropped on the 25th.

[BoneKrusher]

Believe it or not - no. He got dropped on the 25th.

was BlackBob perma banned?

[DaFace]

was BlackBob perma banned?

Not initially, but eventually - yes.

[BoneKrusher]

Not initially, but eventually - yes.

was it the constant debating or am i allowed to ask?

[DaFace]

was it the constant debating or am i allowed to ask?

Initially, that's why he was put on universal ignore. He was completely taking over the entire Planet and derailing every thread with constant bickering.

But that wasn't why he was permabanned. He was permabanned because he made vague threats about suing another member and filing a police report about the Planet.

[BoneKrusher]

Initially, that's why he was put on universal ignore. He was completely taking over the entire Planet and derailing every thread with constant bickering.

But that wasn't why he was permabanned. He was permabanned because he made vague threats about suing another member and filing a police report about the Planet.

wow.
i knew him before he joined here and he always seemed to have a good rep.
i hate to hear that.

Thanks DaFace.

[Buck]

How has all the banner pub affected traffic?

[DaFace]

How has all the banner pub affected traffic?

Gimme a bit. I'll update.

[Phobia]

How has all the banner pub affected traffic?

Registrations have doubled. 80 last week and 72 so far this week against 22, 19, 31, 39, 37 for each week logged in September. Prior to that, have to go all the way back to 3rd week of Sept last year with 61 registrations.

[lewdog]

Registrations have doubled. 80 last week and 72 so far this week against 22, 19, 31, 39, 37 for each week logged in September. Prior to that, have to go all the way back to 3rd week of Sept last year with 61 registrations.

Time to get my red neg stick out and go on a n00b hunt!!!

[DaFace]

As for post volume, it's tough to tell. It fluctuates wildly from day to day, so it's tough to tell what kind of trends we're talking about. Generally speaking, I think we're on a faster pace this year than we have in the past few years, but that's just in general rather than in the past week. Anyway, here's the chart:

http://i.imgur.com/ezWFv.png

[DaFace]

Registrations have doubled. 80 last week and 72 so far this week against 22, 19, 31, 39, 37 for each week logged in September. Prior to that, have to go all the way back to 3rd week of Sept last year with 61 registrations.

Yep. I've clearly noticed a greater n00b presence that undoubtedly is due to the banner. I wish that vBulletin kept tabs on guest activity because I'm sure we'd see a nice bump there as well.

[Otter]

As for post volume, it's tough to tell. It fluctuates wildly from day to day, so it's tough to tell what kind of trends we're talking about. Generally speaking, I think we're on a faster pace this year than we have in the past few years, but that's just in general rather than in the past week. Anyway, here's the chart:

http://i.imgur.com/ezWFv.png

What was the spike in 2009? Was that the Pioli - Haley hire?

[DaFace]

Here's our visits report from Google Analytics.

http://i.imgur.com/PXecd.png

You can see that we normally have around 10,000 visits on a gameday. There's a clear spike on Monday (when pr_capone first posted his thread) up to probably 14,000. I think it's safe to say that we had about a 40% initial bump in traffic due to the banner discussion. The point is driven home even more with this one, which is the percentage of visitors who are NEW:

http://i.imgur.com/yXWPj.png

So as you can see, in a typical day, about one-fourth of visits to the site are from people who haven't been here before (or at least recently). On Monday and Tuesday, that spiked all the way up to around 40% or so. Oddly, there wasn't a huge spike in that regard after the banner actually flew. My guess is just that we've been driving traffic to SaveOurChiefs rather than ChiefsPlanet, so that's where people would have ended up.

[DaFace]

Last thing I'll post is that it seems like the main referral sources out there have been Facebook and Reddit. There's a little bit of Twitter in there, but not much.

[DaFace]

What was the spike in 2009? Was that the Pioli - Haley hire?

It's always tough to tell exactly what drives traffic, but that was indeed their first year. Maybe we talked more because we were more optimistic? :shrug:

[Otter]

It's always tough to tell exactly what drives traffic, but that was indeed their first year. Maybe we talked more because we were more optimistic? :shrug:

Reminders of my Jennifer Anostine & Rhona Mitra dreams.

[JASONSAUTO]

It's always tough to tell exactly what drives traffic, but that was indeed their first year. Maybe we talked more because we were more optimistic? :shrug:

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[DaFace]

Not that this stuff matters, but we should break a million posts for the second time this year. We're at about 990k posts for the year as of last night at midnight, and we typically average in the vicinity of 2500 posts/day this time of year. Barring any crazy drop in visitation, we should be there. Anyway, here's the latest chart:

http://i.imgur.com/T1Zln.png

Also, it's not surprising that this was our highest year ever in terms of average daily visitation (registered members). We averaged 908 active users per day this year. The next-highest year was 2007, when we had 894 average users per day. That number really doesn't vary a ton given that we have so many long-time members, though. It was 868 last year for comparison.

[Bugeater]

I'm guessing Sunday and Monday are going to be pretty busy days here.

[AussieChiefsFan]

Draft day here is going to be incredbile.

[something cooler]

Draft day here is going to be incredbile.

Strange music!

[NJChiefsFan]

I'm guessing Sunday and Monday are going to be pretty busy days here.

Yes it should be, no matter what the result is.

[AussieChiefsFan]

Strange music!

Indeed. ^S^

[DaFace]

This one's always a bit of a pain to do a cool graph with, but here's a graph of unique visitors by month:

http://i.imgur.com/kk3HQ.png

Basically, we've had 743k unique visitors this year compared to 644k in 2011 and 613k in 2010 (no data before that). So, you can probably at least partially say that SOC was at least partial responsible for about a 15% jump in the number of people who see this site this year.

[something cooler]

was the site slacking this year before soc?

[SPchief]

Anyway, here's the latest chart:

http://i.imgur.com/T1Zln.png



was the site slacking this year before soc?

The proof is in the graph

[something cooler]

Ooh, I guess not. Thanks!

[Guru]

Gee, wonder why 2009 was so high. heh

[DaFace]

Final total for 2012: 1,012,312.

I'm not going to update the graph because I'm lazy and it's a pretty minor change from a few days ago.

[Buck]

I bet this year is going to have the most January posts ever.

[DaFace]

I bet this year is going to have the most January posts ever.

I haven't pulled the numbers or anything, but I'm pretty sure you're right in terms of the first four days at least. We're averaging around 5k posts per day right now over the past week.

[Buck]

Bump for new stats and also while I have your attention DaFace, is it possible to make it possible for users to edit a thread title no matter how long it's been since they posted it?

I don't understand why you can't edit it after 20 min or so.

[DaFace]

Bump for new stats and also while I have your attention DaFace, is it possible to make it possible for users to edit a thread title no matter how long it's been since they posted it?

I don't understand why you can't edit it after 20 min or so.

Bug me in a few days if I don't get to the stats - I'm a bit busy the next couple evenings.

As for your request, I'm not entirely sure. I'll bring it up for discussion amongst the mods.

[DaFace]

Holy shit...we don't get record days by post count for the draft anymore due to the fact that it's split over three days now, but our active user count for the past three days has been off the charts. Prior to this week, the record was somewhere around 1250 in a day. We hit 1672 on Thursday and 1324 on Friday.

That's probably mostly artificially driven by the fact that we turned off guest access (forcing people to log in), but still.

[DaFace]

Oh, I apparently never updated this. I'll try and get to that tomorrow.

[SPchief]

Holy shit...we don't get record days by post count for the draft anymore due to the fact that it's split over three days now, but our active user count for the past three days has been off the charts. Prior to this week, the record was somewhere around 1250 in a day. We hit 1672 on Thursday and 1324 on Friday.

That's probably mostly artificially driven by the fact that we turned off guest access (forcing people to log in), but still.

What about today, err yesterday? Seems like the Server had more trouble today than the other two. But I could be wrong because I was at work during the draft thursday and friday.

[DaFace]

What about today, err yesterday? Seems like the Server had more trouble today than the other two. But I could be wrong because I was at work during the draft thursday and friday.

Yesterday was still high (1221), but wasn't anything too crazy in terms of breaking records. I don't entirely know what the deal is these days with it locking up from time to time. Searching is obviously a major culprit, but that was disabled the entire draft, and we still had slowdowns. Hopefully the new version of vBulletin is better at handling large forums like ours once AustinChief eventually gets it installed.

[DaFace]

OK, here's the basic stats stuff. We're currently on a near-identical trajectory in terms of daily posts as we were in 2009. Apparently regime changes spur a lot of discussion.

http://i.imgur.com/REyKQ5t.png

What I think is perhaps more interesting (as alluded to above) is that the number of people logging in every day is MUCH higher this year than it has been in the past. Of course, it will regress to the mean a bit as the offseason wears on without a lot to talk about, but it's still a pretty striking difference.

http://i.imgur.com/wPmYjkn.png

[teedubya]

Over 1000 Mean daily users. But how many rude daily users? :-P

[MIAdragon]

Over 1000 Mean daily users. But how many rude daily users? :-P

100%

[TimBone]

That's probably mostly artificially driven by the fact that we turned off guest access (forcing people to log in), but still.

I noticed that. What was the reason. I'm not complaining. I was just curious.