And now for the good news!

The good news...

October broke all previous ATS performance records... by a long way.

October unique visitors: 270,693
October page views: 4,343,115
October bandwidth: HTML only: 80.326 gigabytes
October bandwidth: ALL: 107.126 gigabytes
Biggest day: October 23rd: 171,281 pages, 9,150 unique visitors

(The above does not factor BTS traffic, which is 140,000 page views, and 1.5 gigabytes for its first 8 days of existence.)

Our previous biggest month was September, with:
189,607 unique visitors
2,892,790 page views
69.283 gigabytes of total bandwidth


I think it's safe to say that the upgrade to the new, more powerful server in early October was a much needed upgrade, as we immediately experienced increased traffic. During September, we repeatedly encountered the upper limits of the old server's performance capabilities.

Members can review the details at: www.abovetopsecret.com... (the logs for the new server began October 7th, the totals above are compilations of the totals from both servers.) One note, our new chat is more popular than our previous chat application, and alone accounts for about 5% of the increased page-views.


While sheer numbers are not always an indication of quality, in reality, we wouldn't be experiencing this rapid (and staggering to those of us trying to keep the technology at pace) growth if the board didn't contain quality material. As such, our surveys have given an overall positive picture of the current state of ATS, our members, and the overall quality of content. There are some areas we will address, but overall, ATS is perceived as an excellent place to deny ignorance.


Soon, we'll post a more detailed analysis of the surveys, along with some ideas that respond to some of the comments... and we did receive an overall excellent response for members in the text-input fields. Again, thank you everyone for participating.


If you haven't taken the surveys:
Take Survey 1
Take Survey 2

The survey results can be seen:
Survey 1 Results
Survey 2 Results


[Edited on 1-11-2003 by William]

And we're moving on up!!!

I wonder wheen we'll hit 300000, 400000, and 500000 unique visitors per month...

I'm betting next month.

Seriously.

September 170k unique
October 270k unique
november? ;P

It's all because of me, honest.

Heh, I am just waiting for the ATS logos for linking, I am anxious to add a link from my blog.

how many registered users does ats have?

Originally posted by EWom
how many registered users does ats have?

We have 6,051 members at this time.(with around 20 new members per day )
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Anybody good at graphing?

It would be interesting to see the scale visually, of the growth at ATS.

Marked with ,the new server, important world events, etc.

The numbers,...are awsome to see. Good job!

Awesome! I think they all needed a place to voice their hate of Nick Cage. They found it here on ATS!!!

Originally posted by NotTooHappy
Awesome! I think they all needed a place to voice their hate of Nick Cage. They found it here on ATS!!!

You sound like a broken record stuck on an infinite loop.

Still #1 !

Props to all the members of ATS who make it what it is, the best forum on the net.

This is good news....

Could you explain the unique visitors to me?

In my mind a unique visitor is one person.
And that doesn't seem right.. or is it 1 unique visitor = 1 hit?

Cause 200,000+ unique visitors with only what was it 6,000 registered users, seems way off.

A unique user is just that, one person identified as unique and not repeated elsewhere in the logs. We tend to have far more guests than members visit the board. We used to have code that tracked the number of unique guests on the board, but we'd get so many guests, the overhead on the server was too much.

and thanks to all that make this community one in which one can express to...

~Congrats. We doin' better then before. Bring on the curious!



Peace,
Jeff

wow...imagine how much money you could make if you charged...



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