Sharing Statistics on Mellophant

[What Exit?]

Posts:
February 26, 2009 108
February 27, 2009 499
February 28, 2009 527
March 01, 2009 1291
March 02, 2009 1684
March 03, 2009 1720
March 04, 2009 1754
March 05, 2009 1325
March 06, 2009 1273
March 07, 2009 1120
March 08, 2009 1102
March 09, 2009 1444
March 10, 2009 1370
March 11, 2009 1315
March 12, 2009 1281
March 13, 2009 1267
March 14, 2009 918
March 15, 2009 905
March 16, 2009 1490
March 17, 2009 1064
March 18, 2009 967
March 19, 2009 1243
March 20, 2009 1230
March 21, 2009 625
March 22, 2009 581
March 23, 2009 801
March 24, 2009 920
March 25, 2009 1111
March 26, 2009 1001
March 27, 2009 898
March 28, 2009 577
March 29, 2009 633
March 30, 2009 829
March 31, 2009 1106
April 01, 2009 888
April 02, 2009 995
April 03, 2009 1193
April 04, 2009 861
April 05, 2009 855
April 06, 2009 1046
April 07, 2009 899
April 08, 2009 988
April 09, 2009 877
April 10, 2009 837
April 11, 2009 440
April 12, 2009 427
April 13, 2009 719
April 14, 2009 787
April 15, 2009 858
April 16, 2009 728
April 17, 2009 747
April 18, 2009 555
April 19, 2009 466
April 20, 2009 964
April 21, 2009 884
April 22, 2009 797
April 23, 2009 810
April 24, 2009 821
April 25, 2009 430
April 26, 2009 341
April 27, 2009 743
April 28, 2009 615
April 29, 2009 653
April 30, 2009 559
May 01, 2009 579
May 02, 2009 467
May 03, 2009 371
May 04, 2009 604
May 05, 2009 734
May 06, 2009 699
May 07, 2009 534
May 08, 2009 608
May 09, 2009 306
May 10, 2009 259
May 11, 2009 734
May 12, 2009 515
May 13, 2009 443
May 14, 2009 481
May 15, 2009 629
May 16, 2009 410
May 17, 2009 423
May 18, 2009 529
May 19, 2009 706
May 20, 2009 680
May 21, 2009 620
May 22, 2009 510
May 23, 2009 253
May 24, 2009 223
May 25, 2009 337
May 26, 2009 523
May 27, 2009 418
May 28, 2009 427
May 29, 2009 421
May 30, 2009 195
May 31, 2009 202
June 01, 2009 486
June 02, 2009 559
June 03, 2009 578
June 04, 2009 507
June 05, 2009 436
June 06, 2009 196
June 07, 2009 234
June 08, 2009 422
June 09, 2009 426
June 10, 2009 425
June 11, 2009 444
June 12, 2009 268
June 13, 2009 278
June 14, 2009 269
June 15, 2009 372
June 16, 2009 449
June 17, 2009 448
June 18, 2009 400
June 19, 2009 322
June 20, 2009 158
June 21, 2009 203
June 22, 2009 408
June 23, 2009 410
June 24, 2009 344
June 25, 2009 235
June 26, 2009 346
June 27, 2009 111
June 28, 2009 165
June 29, 2009 240
June 30, 2009 229
July 01, 2009 294
July 02, 2009 264
July 03, 2009 238
July 04, 2009 266
July 05, 2009 123
July 06, 2009 243
July 07, 2009 280
July 08, 2009 263
July 09, 2009 432
July 10, 2009 335
July 11, 2009 123
July 12, 2009 161
July 13, 2009 403
July 14, 2009 473
July 15, 2009 323
July 16, 2009 316
July 17, 2009 188
July 18, 2009 65
July 19, 2009 95
July 20, 2009 271
July 21, 2009 227
July 22, 2009 194
July 23, 2009 208
July 24, 2009 274
July 25, 2009 74
July 26, 2009 64
July 27, 2009 176
July 28, 2009 116
July 29, 2009 202
July 30, 2009 156
July 31, 2009 218
August 01, 2009 112
August 02, 2009 78
August 03, 2009 146
August 04, 2009 176
August 05, 2009 117
August 06, 2009 120
August 07, 2009 159
August 08, 2009 70
August 09, 2009 56
August 10, 2009 147
August 11, 2009 209
August 12, 2009 158
August 13, 2009 236
August 14, 2009 143
August 15, 2009 88
August 16, 2009 77
August 17, 2009 198
August 18, 2009 410
August 19, 2009 266
August 20, 2009 296
August 21, 2009 298
August 22, 2009 286
August 23, 2009 139
August 24, 2009 347
August 25, 2009 329
August 26, 2009 200
August 27, 2009 122
August 28, 2009 93
August 29, 2009 112
August 30, 2009 100
August 31, 2009 136
September 01, 2009 225
September 02, 2009 273
September 03, 2009 99
September 04, 2009 175
September 05, 2009 311
September 06, 2009 261
September 07, 2009 323
September 08, 2009 501
September 09, 2009 501

User Activity:
August 11, 2009 13
August 12, 2009 7
August 13, 2009 7
August 14, 2009 13
August 15, 2009 16
August 16, 2009 3
August 17, 2009 17
August 18, 2009 26
August 19, 2009 32
August 20, 2009 12
August 21, 2009 48
August 22, 2009 54
August 23, 2009 22
August 24, 2009 37
August 25, 2009 45
August 26, 2009 52
August 27, 2009 20
August 28, 2009 25
August 29, 2009 29
August 30, 2009 66
August 31, 2009 80
September 01, 2009 227
September 02, 2009 49
September 03, 2009 39
September 04, 2009 79
September 05, 2009 103
September 06, 2009 105
September 07, 2009 108
September 08, 2009 112
September 09, 2009 130

[Zuul]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this. We've nearly tripled our daily posting since Friday. Let us make the upward trend continue!

[The Original An Gadaí]

Let's do this!

[Sarahfeena]

Yay! Looking good.

What's the "user activity" stat?

[Feirefiz]

I turned your numbers into two simple charts. We'll have to do something about the long-term trend, but there is hope that things are getting better.

[OneCentStamp]

Small steps. I'm just happy to be here, and excited to keep posting with my pachyfriends.

[Cluricaun]

Cool graphs. I like the current activity and am avoiding getting sucked into a chat hole as much as possible so as to contribute to the upward trend.

[Myrnalene]

Small steps. I'm just happy to be here, and excited to keep posting with my pachyfriends.

This. We will probably never see the kind of activity had when this place opened, but even if we can just keep up the volume of the past few days I will be happy.

[OneCentStamp]

This. We will probably never see the kind of activity had when this place opened,

I agree. Even when the SDMB finally croaks, we probably won't get more than a handful of refugees. If we grow from here, it will be because of new people, and because we find our own niche/voice. It will happen organically (if it happens at all), not out of any conscious decision to say "Hey, we're Mellophant, and now we're going to be all about ________." We'll just realize one day that we talk mostly about cooking. Or old movies. Or bow hunting.

but even if we can just keep up the volume of the past few days I will be happy.

As long as I'm in four or five interesting conversations at any one time, that works for me, and that's pretty much what the board traffic is at right now.

[Sarahfeena]

I love getting folks here who AREN'T from the SDMB! If anyone has a friend or family member who might enjoy being Mello, invite them to join!

[Zuul]

I agree with Myrna and OneCentStamp. Right now, this is pretty good, comfortable traffic for me. If all of the conversations were hit-or-miss I might be hurting for a few more threads, but as it is now I've been consistently able to find threads I wanted to post in just about every time I've looked at new posts.

If we can keep this, with the interesting content we've been generating these past few days, I'll be quite happy.

[Cluricaun]

We'll just realize one day that we talk mostly about cooking. Or old movies. Or bow hunting.

C'mon bowhunting.........

[Zuul]

I love getting folks here who AREN'T from the SDMB! If anyone has a friend or family member who might enjoy being Mello, invite them to join!

I'm sending an invitation to my brother today, in fact. He's sixteen and doesn't have a lot of message board experience, so everybody had better be nice to him!

[What Exit?]

So far today: New Posts 191 so we are behind the past two days pace. Hopefully it picks up later.

[Zuul]

So far today: New Posts 191 so we are behind the past two days pace. Hopefully it picks up later.

IIRC, we picked up quite a bit in the afternoon on both of those days. I know yesterday I was gone all morning and was dismayed at how few new posts there were when I got on, and then we caught up.

It appears we've got people who don't post while at work. Tsk.

[Sarahfeena]

I'm sending an invitation to my brother today, in fact. He's sixteen and doesn't have a lot of message board experience, so everybody had better be nice to him!

Awesome! I hope he likes it here.

[Glazer]

It appears we've got people who don't post while at work. Tsk.

It would be very hard for me to post at work.

Excuse me Ma'am, mind if I log on to your internet and make a few post on this message board, I'll finish installing your mirror in a little wile.

Yep I can see that going over real well.

[Hatshepsut]

It would be very hard for me to post at work.



Yep I can see that going over real well.

Well, heck, you never know til you try, do you?

[Glazer]

Well, heck, you never know til you try, do you?

I could see some of my customers not having a problem. But I remember a thread from the Dope where a worker asked to use the restroom. OMG. In my neighborhood I get a lot of people who would freak right the fuck out.

[Zuul]

Ha! I remember that thread.

You could try posting from a phone, though! But I imagine they'd tend to be very short, misspelled posts as you were trying to do your job one-handed.

[Myrnalene]

I think we had like 700 posts yesterday? Granted they weren't all Pulitzer Prize winners, but that's the busiest day we have had in months.

[What Exit?]

I think we had like 700 posts yesterday? Granted they weren't all Pulitzer Prize winners, but that's the busiest day we have had in months.

Exactly 700 yesterday and New Posts Today are 151 so far.

Fridays are often slow, so we'll see what happens.

[Zuul]

Yesterday at about this time we had 191 posts. So.

[Myrnalene]

User Activity:
August 11, 2009 13
August 12, 2009 7
August 13, 2009 7
August 14, 2009 13
August 15, 2009 16
August 16, 2009 3
August 17, 2009 17
August 18, 2009 26
August 19, 2009 32
August 20, 2009 12
August 21, 2009 48
August 22, 2009 54
August 23, 2009 22
August 24, 2009 37
August 25, 2009 45
August 26, 2009 52
August 27, 2009 20
August 28, 2009 25
August 29, 2009 29
August 30, 2009 66
August 31, 2009 80
September 01, 2009 227
September 02, 2009 49
September 03, 2009 39
September 04, 2009 79
September 05, 2009 103
September 06, 2009 105
September 07, 2009 108
September 08, 2009 112
September 09, 2009 130

What does "user activity" mean here? I know we had 81 online on Wednesday but the figure here says 130. What's it referring to?

[Sarahfeena]

What does "user activity" mean here? I know we had 81 online on Wednesday but the figure here says 130. What's it referring to?

I asked that, too, and no one answered! I THINK it means total number of different users who were on at any time during the day, but I'm not sure.

[What Exit?]

"user activity": I am not sure but believe you are correct Sarah. Sorry, I missed the question.

[Sarahfeena]

"user activity": I am not sure but believe you are correct Sarah. Sorry, I missed the question.

No problem, Jim. Somehow if that's the case, though, the numbers don't look right. How could we have had a day where only 3 people were here all day? Even for dumbo I don't think that's possible!

[What Exit?]

No problem, Jim. Somehow if that's the case, though, the numbers don't look right. How could we have had a day where only 3 people were here all day? Even for dumbo I don't think that's possible!

The data and stats are not going to be that accurate before we went live on vB but you are correct on what the stat is for.

It means how many users visited for the time frame you select.

[What Exit?]

Added Post per day chart to Op to be updated occasionally

[Zuul]

Awesome! I doubt we'll be getting anything like September 10th again until we get close to another milestone posting number, but I'd be pretty happy sticking in the 400-500 posts a day range.

[What Exit?]

Awesome! I doubt we'll be getting anything like September 10th again until we get close to another milestone posting number, but I'd be pretty happy sticking in the 400-500 posts a day range.

I'm greedy, I'm hoping we slowly build up to where 700 seems average and we spike to a 1000 on special days.

[What Exit?]

Good number for a Saturday: 455

[What Exit?]

No surprise, Sunday was slow: 287

[What Exit?]

Stats updated

[Inner Stickler]

I'm slacking. Bad Stickler!

[Zuul]

It's all your fault, Stickler.

[The Original An Gadaí]

Yeah.

[Zuul]

With vbDrupal set up now, it might be a good idea to keep track of how many visitors the front page gets. It could be helpful to see when we get a jump in traffic on the zine and which articles are getting read the most. I know the board keeps track of which articles are read through the forum, but if someone only hits the front page and doesn't go further it'd be nice to know, too.

At the very least, pepper and I would like to know.

[Feirefiz]

With vbDrupal set up now, it might be a good idea to keep track of how many visitors the front page gets. It could be helpful to see when we get a jump in traffic on the zine and which articles are getting read the most. I know the board keeps track of which articles are read through the forum, but if someone only hits the front page and doesn't go further it'd be nice to know, too.

At the very least, pepper and I would like to know.

Do you currently use the Statistics module? It's part of the standard drupal distribution but IIRC it's not activated by default.
That would be a good start. The major disadvantage is that it covers only a limited (but configurable) time span.

If you want fancier long term statistics there are third-party modules that might interest you. For example there is a nice one for integration with Google Analytics.


How are you coming along with drupal?

[What Exit?]

With vbDrupal set up now, it might be a good idea to keep track of how many visitors the front page gets. It could be helpful to see when we get a jump in traffic on the zine and which articles are getting read the most. I know the board keeps track of which articles are read through the forum, but if someone only hits the front page and doesn't go further it'd be nice to know, too.

At the very least, pepper and I would like to know.

I am sorry to say I have no clue how to do that. I will look into it, but that has to be on the network/server side and not vB of course.

[Zuul]

Do you currently use the Statistics module? It's part of the standard drupal distribution but IIRC it's not activated by default.
That would be a good start. The major disadvantage is that it covers only a limited (but configurable) time span.

No, it's not activated by default. I've got it set up now, though. I'm thinking Google Analytics would be good to add onto this, because it's great for charting long-term trends and I don't much care for the statistics module that comes with Drupal.

How are you coming along with drupal?

I think I've got the general hang of it at this point. There's a bit of a learning curve to it at first, but it's also relatively straight-forward once you get into it. There's more that I could do at this point than I have done, but I'm trying not to step on pep's toes.

[elmwood]

I am sorry to say I have no clue how to do that. I will look into it, but that has to be on the network/server side and not vB of course.

Check out the "Statistics" section in cPanel. You might also want to consider adding Google Analytics.

[What Exit?]

My last Stats update is above.

[Zuul]

I've got a bunch of stuff going on today, but I'm going to be posting statistics for the board as soon as I have time. There'll be graphs and everything.

[Myrnalene]

Like this?

[Zuul]

And this:

[pepperlandgirl]

I won't reveal which one was me in Zuul's graph, but I will say it's a nightly activity.

[OneCentStamp]

I won't reveal which one was me in Zuul's graph, but I will say it's a nightly activity.

I thought you wrote erotica, not porn.

[Oliveloaf]

I played with the numbers a little bit. I hope this helps:

[pepperlandgirl]

I thought you wrote erotica, not porn.

Lately it's pretty much been porn