TOL Snapshot: Inside the Numbers

[Arthur Brain]

Well, they should if there wasn't some extreme problem, which is why we're here discussing it. :think:

Good point...

 

[Town Heretic]

An update on Town Quixote's numbers, in the era of diminishing forum returns...I did this a few years ago, largely through November of 2016. I've done so little with the thread over the last few years and understanding the swift downturn for public forums that I wondered how things stood in terms of views and views per post.

So, for the heck of it, here it goes. I wish I'd started this thread in the heyday of participation, but that's life for you. Things were still humming along six years ago, though the original thread, Observations, had about a quarter million views on about 3k posts, so the traffic here was crazy between 2007 and 2010 or so. Anyway...here goes.

Town Quixote's

2013: 900 posts and 32,464 views, 36.1 Views Per Post Avg.

2014: 743 posts and 38,238 views, 52.1 VPPA

2015: 789 posts and 57,518 views, 72.9

2016: 523 posts and 43,497 views, 83.2

2017: 188 posts and 28,489 views, 151.5

2018: 104 posts and 8,095 views, 77.8

2019: 118 posts and 11,232 views, 95.2


This thread did about 4k business on around 60 posts between this time last year to now. About 65.8 views per.

A Momentary Life did 6,771 views on 140 new posts for 48.4 vp

 

[JudgeRightly]

An update on Town Quixote's numbers, in the era of diminishing forum returns...I did this a few years ago, largely through November of 2016. I've done so little with the thread over the last few years and understanding the swift downturn for public forums that I wondered how things stood in terms of views and views per post.

So, for the heck of it, here it goes. I wish I'd started this thread in the heyday of participation, but that's life for you. Things were still humming along six years ago, though the original thread, Observations, had about a quarter million views on about 3k posts, so the traffic here was crazy between 2007 and 2010 or so. Anyway...here goes.

Town Quixote's

2013: 900 posts and 32,464 views, 36.1 Views Per Post Avg.

2014: 743 posts and 38,238 views, 52.1 VPPA

2015: 789 posts and 57,518 views, 72.9

2016: 523 posts and 43,497 views, 83.2

2017: 188 posts and 28,489 views, 151.5

2018: 104 posts and 8,095 views, 77.8

2019: 118 posts and 11,232 views, 95.2


This thread did about 4k business on around 60 posts between this time last year to now. About 65.8 views per.

A Momentary Life did 6,771 views on 140 new posts for 48.4 vp

So post count has been going down since 2013, but view count was started to diminish around 2015 or so, and, at least so far, it looks like post count is starting to go back up, at least for the moment, and average views per post is roughly average.

Seems like we're back on an uptick! :thumb: