May 11th was a huge day for ATS. Many of you saw the new records being broken at the bottom of the home page:
Most total users online all at once:
937 on May, 11 @ 13:42 GMT
Most registered users ever on ATS in one day:
904 on May, 12 @ 00:32 GMT
Most unregistered guests ever on ATS in one day:
22090 on May, 12 @ 06:02 GMT
We broke 900 members visiting in one day, and at one point, had nearly 1,000 simultaneous users on the discussion board.
Our server statistics are also amazing for yesterday:
We had
30,298 unique users visit the ATS domain.
The users yesterday viewed
11,164 unique pages on ATS
For a total of
375,977 page views.
828 different URL's referred to ATS,
for a total of
18,333 visitors from these referrals.
And
909 unique search terms brought 16,484 users from search engines.
All of this added up to
11.7 gigabytes of traffic on one day.
We surpassed our previous single-day record by 33%!
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There was a time when we would have been very happy to see this kind of activity in
one month, and yesterday, through no overwhelming
single-site linking to us, we reached these massive numbers because of the quality of members, and their contributions to denying ignorance.
We've seen some petty bickering over issues of management style here in the past few days. And while there is always opportunity to improve any
effort such as the ATS discussion board, these numbers indicate we are doing most things very right. No site receives 828 unique URL's linking to it
when quality is a concern. No digital community experiences over 30,000 unique visitors in one day, each looking at an average of 12.4 pages without
superior efforts of moderation and forum maintenance. And the only way to get 900 members to visit an online community in one day is to offer quality
discussion, properly managed and maintained.
Since our motto of "deny ignorance" first appeared under our logo at the top of the site, the mission has been to help more people understand the
issues we discuss here. Thanks to all our members, and hard working staff, nothing proves the success of your efforts more than these amazing
numbers.
Well done. Very well done indeed.
[Edited on 12-5-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
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