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Re: News coverage

Post by lordpasternack » Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:26 pm

CJ wrote:It will be sad to see RD.net fall down the rankings and lose so many search terms disappear.
Oh - I get the feeling it would also be a moment of unmitigated schadenfreude and "told you so" for yourself... :ele:

Now bear in mind that these stats are applicable just now while there's no forum/discussion area of any description. Things may begin to pick up once this new discussion area goes in, and it will at least be an indicator of how potentially popular Josh's idea always was, even while the original folk there were practically unanimously against it, and we weren't even allowed to beta-test it for a short while, while hanging onto the original forum.

Whether it will be qualitatively better than the past sections of the forum devoted to reason and science remains to be seen. And also whether it severely impacts the feeling of community felt over on RD.net, and whether this is deemed of importance, remains to be seen.
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Re: News coverage

Post by xrayzed » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:32 pm

lordpasternack wrote: Now bear in mind that these stats are applicable just now while there's no forum/discussion area of any description. Things may begin to pick up once this new discussion area goes in, and it will at least be an indicator of how potentially popular Josh's idea always was, even while the original folk there were practically unanimously against it, and we weren't even allowed to beta-test it for a short while, while hanging onto the original forum.
It was pointed out to me elsewhere that it's possible traffic to the front pages was also heavily skewed towards non-members. I have a number of sites I regularly visit and have never registered at.
Whether it will be qualitatively better than the past sections of the forum devoted to reason and science remains to be seen.
Predictions:
  • It will be seen to be qualitatively better by the remaining members of the RDF.
    It will be seen to be qualitatively worse by the former members of the RDF.
That's how these things usually go. :ddpan:
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Re: News coverage

Post by CJ » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:18 pm

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RDF's time on site has dropped dramatically and continues to fall
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Re: News coverage

Post by Bella Fortuna » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:31 pm

Just like ours. :lol:
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Re: News coverage

Post by klr » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:49 pm

CJ wrote:Image

RDF's time on site has dropped dramatically and continues to fall
Hold on ... how did we ever get that high? Are those labels mixed up? :what:
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Post by JimC » Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:02 am

klr wrote:
CJ wrote:Image

RDF's time on site has dropped dramatically and continues to fall
Hold on ... how did we ever get that high? Are those labels mixed up? :what:
Given that it is time on site, I am not surprised, we are fucking addicts... :biggrin:

I suppose our fall off is the comparitive absence of vituperative drama since the days immediately after the expulsion from the garden of eden...
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Re: News coverage

Post by Alan C » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:53 am

Time on site?
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Re: News coverage

Post by CJ » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:57 am

Alan C wrote:Time on site?
:think:
Per user visit. So the average time has dropped from 5.57 mins to 1.74 mins. There could be a number of possible scenarios, one of which would be that the people who visited the forum spent a lot of time reading posts and that traffic has gone now that the forum has gone and we are now seeing just the behaviours of the front page users and the 'dippers'.
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Re: News coverage

Post by Thinking Aloud » Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:04 am

Yeah, but look at what's happened to us!!!!

Average time on site goes from 30-odd minutes over the new year, down to 2.

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Re: News coverage

Post by Feck » Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:49 am

Thinking Aloud wrote:Yeah, but look at what's happened to us!!!!

Average time on site goes from 30-odd minutes over the new year, down to 2.

Oh. Time up. See you la
We used to have 8 people on-line all day every day now we have a lot more members .
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Re: News coverage

Post by Pappa » Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:52 am

You realise that the Alexa stats are hugely innacurate for sites that get small numbers of visitors? They stats come from anonymised data from people using the Alexa toolbar.
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Re: News coverage

Post by Thinking Aloud » Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:12 am

Oh yeah, but still, LOOK IT'S A GRAPH ON THE INTERNET: IT MUST BE TRUE :panic:
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Re: News coverage

Post by CJ » Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:48 pm

Pappa wrote:You realise that the Alexa stats are hugely innacurate for sites that get small numbers of visitors? They stats come from anonymised data from people using the Alexa toolbar.
Hmmmm :eddy: Have to find something better.
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Re: News coverage

Post by Flora » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:54 pm

Pappa wrote:You realise that the Alexa stats are hugely innacurate for sites that get small numbers of visitors? They stats come from anonymised data from people using the Alexa toolbar.
For small sites Alexa is definitely flaky. It's better for them to use their own data on posts / members / hits etc to gauge what's happening over time.
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Re: News coverage

Post by Alan C » Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:00 am

Thinking Aloud wrote:Oh yeah, but still, LOOK IT'S A GRAPH ON THE INTERNET: IT MUST BE TRUE :panic:
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