Statistics

Post/Thread Statistics for the life of the forum


Post/Thread Statistics for the past year

My opinion is that, of course, I'm concerned about the decrease in the number of posts over the past few months, but I am not concerned about the low thread count, since I'd much rather have longer threads than a bunch of short ones.

 

By the way, I am not in the least bothered by the comparatively low number of threads because I much prefer long threads to a bunch of short ones. Things are going pretty steady, and I am pleased. More posts would be nice, though.

 

This is the number of sites / pages that have links to the SENIORSonly Club site. I have been working on that lately.


This refers to traffic that came to the SENIORSonly Club site from the Google search engine. As you can see, we got almost no search engine traffic for the first year. It takes a while to get into the search engine SERPs (search engine result pages).


These are the pages that got the most traffic from Google in the past month.

Volume = the number of searches made on Google for that keyword.
KD = keyword density = a calculation of how often that keyword is used on that page.
CPC = cost per click = the amount of money that the keyword was worth if it were paid for via Google Adwords, which I don't use.
Traffic = I think that's the percentage of clicks that were to my site from searches made on that keyword.
Position = where the page appeared in Google searches for that keyword.
URL = the page that the visitor first went to.

 

When I ran an online newspaper, I logged on one day to find that my traffic had spiked to about a thousand times my usual traffic, given that it was a local newspaper that mostly covered stuff from Millinocket, East Millinocket and Medway. It turned out that Rush Limbaugh had quoted one of my articles on his radio show and linked to it from his web site. Later, there was another spike when another national radio show host mentioned the same article, but that one wasn't nearly the boost that Limbaugh gave it.

 

Here are a couple of graphs that are worrisome.




As you can see, things have really slowed down the past month. We've all noticed it, but it looks particularly ugly in a graph. I don't care so much about the threads number, but I'd love to see the posts number come back up. It's not like people aren't here since there's nearly always someone in the forum. These graphs only go back a year, but our February numbers haven't been this low since 2015.

 

There should be way more posts than threads. I would much rather see a lot of posts or replies in threads than a lot of threads that few people are replying to. Until the very end of the graph, the threads graph was okay.

 

It doesn't mean anything particularly exciting or depressing. We had a spike for a few months in the summer and fall of 2016, but have been continuing steadily since then, with a gradual move upwards. I am more pleased with a continuous post level in the 5,000s and above than with the spike in 2016. I don't often check the stats here because the forum is not monetized in any way but, since I took the time to look at it, I thought I'd post a screenshot.

 

Unfortunately, we've lost some of the old ones. That's inevitable, but I'd still rather not lose them.