Statistic thrad
- Thread starter Cthulhu
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Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
The remake gave us a massive boost in traffic for a couple of days, but now that it's stabilised, we're still getting a lot more visitors than we were before, which is encouraging:
Top 10 landing pages in the past week:
1. / 27.26%
2. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32901/ffvii-remake-everything-we-know-so-far/ 13.87%
3. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32711/visual-breakdown-of-ffvii-remake-e3-trailer/ 9.73%
4. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32655/final-fantasy-vii-e3-trailer-transcript/ 2.88%
5. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32631/final-fantasy-vii-remake-announced-at-e3/ 2.13%
6. /news/32711/visual-breakdown-of-ffvii-remake-e3-trailer/ 1.94%
7. /lifestream-projects/translations/6043/ffviii-ultimania-and-related-translations-continue/ 1.83%
8. /ffvii-the-original/final-fantasy-vii-the-unused-text-series/ 1.52%
9. /lifestream-projects/translations/66/the-compilation-of-final-fantasy-vii-ultimania-translations/ 1.50%
10. /lifestream-projects/translations/107/complete-timeline-of-the-compilation-of-ffvii/ 1.38%
Top 10 landing pages in the past week:
1. / 27.26%
2. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32901/ffvii-remake-everything-we-know-so-far/ 13.87%
3. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32711/visual-breakdown-of-ffvii-remake-e3-trailer/ 9.73%
4. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32655/final-fantasy-vii-e3-trailer-transcript/ 2.88%
5. /news/final-fantasy-vii-news/32631/final-fantasy-vii-remake-announced-at-e3/ 2.13%
6. /news/32711/visual-breakdown-of-ffvii-remake-e3-trailer/ 1.94%
7. /lifestream-projects/translations/6043/ffviii-ultimania-and-related-translations-continue/ 1.83%
8. /ffvii-the-original/final-fantasy-vii-the-unused-text-series/ 1.52%
9. /lifestream-projects/translations/66/the-compilation-of-final-fantasy-vii-ultimania-translations/ 1.50%
10. /lifestream-projects/translations/107/complete-timeline-of-the-compilation-of-ffvii/ 1.38%
Ⓐaron
Factiō Rēpūblicāna dēlenda est.
- AKA
- The Man, V
Posts have continued the same general trend as overall site traffic:
It should be noted that some of this fluctuation may have been due to the weekend. Saturdays tend to be slow message board days, which would explain the 19th's low post count. Regardless, activity seems to have stabilised in the 300-450 post per day count, which is a nice tick up from what we were having before (the 75-200 range).
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June 01, 2015 84
June 02, 2015 130
June 03, 2015 142
June 04, 2015 93
June 05, 2015 135
June 06, 2015 174
June 07, 2015 102
June 08, 2015 95
June 09, 2015 86
June 10, 2015 102
June 11, 2015 111
June 12, 2015 107
June 13, 2015 99
June 14, 2015 107
June 15, 2015 162
June 16, 2015 843
June 17, 2015 538
June 18, 2015 529
June 19, 2015 309
June 20, 2015 371
June 21, 2015 431
June 22, 2015 343
Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
- Yop
I was fed up with only being able to see performance stats when I logged into TLS's server, so last night I installed some software - it's called Munin and it's pretty cool, it basically just takes a snapshot of things like CPU and memory usage and generates a set of static pages.
landing page: http://thelifestream.net/munin
cpu etc stats: http://thelifestream.net/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain/index.html#system
You can see where it made the backup this morning; Dropbox actually takes up most CPU usage, the rest of the time CPU usage (normally speaking) is like 10% or less.
Also of note is that we have a server uptime (i.e. no shutdowns or resets or whatever) of like 250 days now. I think it was higher before I did the update last year though.
edit: idk if it should be publically accessible, I don't think it'll do any harm though, there's no upload functionality or anything on there, it's just static pages.
landing page: http://thelifestream.net/munin
cpu etc stats: http://thelifestream.net/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain/index.html#system
You can see where it made the backup this morning; Dropbox actually takes up most CPU usage, the rest of the time CPU usage (normally speaking) is like 10% or less.
Also of note is that we have a server uptime (i.e. no shutdowns or resets or whatever) of like 250 days now. I think it was higher before I did the update last year though.
edit: idk if it should be publically accessible, I don't think it'll do any harm though, there's no upload functionality or anything on there, it's just static pages.
Ⓐaron
Factiō Rēpūblicāna dēlenda est.
- AKA
- The Man, V
Moar statistics:
You can
learly see an uptick in new registrations after the announcement of the remake. It lasted for around ten days before returning to normal levels. Note that a lot of the registrations before the remake announcement were probably spambots.
User activity also spiked sharply and has yet to fall to anything approaching pre-announcement levels. In fact, it's been pretty much our steadiest statistic:
There was also a spike in new thrad-making after the announcement.
And off course, here's updated new poast statistics:
So yes, all of this has been helped substantially by the announcement of the remake.
You can
learly see an uptick in new registrations after the announcement of the remake. It lasted for around ten days before returning to normal levels. Note that a lot of the registrations before the remake announcement were probably spambots.
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June 02, 2015 1
June 03, 2015 3
June 04, 2015 2
June 05, 2015 5
June 06, 2015 2
June 07, 2015 1
June 10, 2015 2
June 11, 2015 2
June 12, 2015 2
June 13, 2015 2
June 14, 2015 1
June 15, 2015 2
June 16, 2015 6
June 17, 2015 6
June 18, 2015 9
June 19, 2015 2
June 20, 2015 7
June 21, 2015 5
June 22, 2015 3
June 23, 2015 4
June 24, 2015 2
June 25, 2015 6
June 26, 2015 5
June 27, 2015 1
June 29, 2015 1
June 30, 2015 3User activity also spiked sharply and has yet to fall to anything approaching pre-announcement levels. In fact, it's been pretty much our steadiest statistic:
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June 01, 2015 71
June 02, 2015 71
June 03, 2015 69
June 04, 2015 83
June 05, 2015 74
June 06, 2015 78
June 07, 2015 75
June 08, 2015 73
June 09, 2015 74
June 10, 2015 79
June 11, 2015 73
June 12, 2015 76
June 13, 2015 68
June 14, 2015 70
June 15, 2015 75
June 16, 2015 135
June 17, 2015 124
June 18, 2015 129
June 19, 2015 116
June 20, 2015 118
June 21, 2015 126
June 22, 2015 121
June 23, 2015 126
June 24, 2015 123
June 25, 2015 127
June 26, 2015 121
June 27, 2015 108
June 28, 2015 105
June 29, 2015 122
June 30, 2015 124There was also a spike in new thrad-making after the announcement.
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June 01, 2015 2
June 02, 2015 2
June 03, 2015 5
June 04, 2015 3
June 05, 2015 15
June 06, 2015 8
June 08, 2015 2
June 10, 2015 4
June 11, 2015 3
June 12, 2015 2
June 13, 2015 2
June 14, 2015 2
June 15, 2015 3
June 16, 2015 9
June 17, 2015 24
June 18, 2015 8
June 19, 2015 10
June 20, 2015 16
June 21, 2015 12
June 22, 2015 3
June 23, 2015 7
June 24, 2015 8
June 25, 2015 9
June 26, 2015 8
June 27, 2015 11
June 28, 2015 8
June 29, 2015 3
June 30, 2015 11And off course, here's updated new poast statistics:
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June 01, 2015 84
June 02, 2015 130
June 03, 2015 142
June 04, 2015 93
June 05, 2015 135
June 06, 2015 174
June 07, 2015 102
June 08, 2015 95
June 09, 2015 86
June 10, 2015 102
June 11, 2015 111
June 12, 2015 107
June 13, 2015 99
June 14, 2015 107
June 15, 2015 162
June 16, 2015 843
June 17, 2015 538
June 18, 2015 529
June 19, 2015 309
June 20, 2015 371
June 21, 2015 431
June 22, 2015 343
June 23, 2015 474
June 24, 2015 534
June 25, 2015 400
June 26, 2015 370
June 27, 2015 426
June 28, 2015 315
June 29, 2015 349
June 30, 2015 351So yes, all of this has been helped substantially by the announcement of the remake.
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Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
- Yop
Another thing that increased: Ad revenue:
If this kept up (€15 in ad revenue the past 7 days, plus two $10 donations), TLS would actually be profitable,
. Or well, bring in more than it costs (I calculated the monthly cost at about €40-€50 a month), it would take a few years before it broke even, 
. That reminds me, I was going to do a spreadsheet of TLS' expenses / income at some point.
If this kept up (€15 in ad revenue the past 7 days, plus two $10 donations), TLS would actually be profitable,
. Or well, bring in more than it costs (I calculated the monthly cost at about €40-€50 a month), it would take a few years before it broke even, . That reminds me, I was going to do a spreadsheet of TLS' expenses / income at some point.
Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
Compared to this time last year:
(These stats are for the front page only, courtesy of Google Analytics.)
Right now we're in our busiest seven-day period since early July 2015, which was the back end of the Remake announcement visitor spike. We've been ahead of last year on daily visitors every day since February the 5th, but before that we were behind most days. That suggests it's our new content that's driving the numbers up, not the site design, though that has indirectly helped by motivating me to write more.
We made new 11 posts in February, of which I wrote seven and edited two more. That's the kind of pace we should be aiming for whenever there's news – and when there isn't, we should be coming up with our own content. Everyone, if you can't contribute yourself, please pitch in with any ideas you have – that's why we have threads like this one.
Yop, we should probably talk front page advertising, or possibly have a wider conversation about monetisation for TLS, including options like Patreon, etc.
(These stats are for the front page only, courtesy of Google Analytics.)
Right now we're in our busiest seven-day period since early July 2015, which was the back end of the Remake announcement visitor spike. We've been ahead of last year on daily visitors every day since February the 5th, but before that we were behind most days. That suggests it's our new content that's driving the numbers up, not the site design, though that has indirectly helped by motivating me to write more.
We made new 11 posts in February, of which I wrote seven and edited two more. That's the kind of pace we should be aiming for whenever there's news – and when there isn't, we should be coming up with our own content. Everyone, if you can't contribute yourself, please pitch in with any ideas you have – that's why we have threads like this one.
Yop, we should probably talk front page advertising, or possibly have a wider conversation about monetisation for TLS, including options like Patreon, etc.
Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
- Yop
Indeed. I think regular advertising should be fine, although I still need to figure out how to hide it for donators - should be doable with a custom user meta field in WP, else a query to the forums database. Alternatively, if Patreon is more of a monthly donation thing than a one-time donation, we could separate front page and forums donators; idk if that'd be popular with people though, hence this poast.
Shademp
420
If TLS Patreon is to be considered, it will probably deserve its own thread.
By "separating front page and forum donators", do you mean separating Patreon supporters and general Donations? Sounds okay to me.
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Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
- Yop
More like front page supporters vs forum donators, but yeah, something like that. I've started a thrad in the staff section about it (also about distribution of potential wealth, which is why it's in the staff wossname, I'll put the real thing somewhere public). The tl;dr is about frontpage ads, Patreon, and what to do about one-time donators vs recurring paymenting supporters.