Ed, It was my impression that a significant portion of the page view were not determined to be members. I guess my mistake grew out of the very small amount of traffic on this forum.
Sorry Owen
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Mark,
That is not correct - the main site (woodturner.org) gets a tremendous amount of traffic - 291,305 page views in July. It's not possible to say exactly, but my guess is that on the order of 40 to 60 percent of AAW's membership visit the main site on a fairly regular basis. And, main site visits may grow significantly as the online Journal catches on. BTW, there are over 62,000 other websites linked to woodturner.org
Study this graphic carefully - July forum traffic was about 1/25th of the main sites.
Ed don't mix up page views with unique visitors. One person can easy visit 100s of pages per month. I know on my forum there are dozens of people who visit over 100 pages per day.
And you are right, there is really no way of knowing how many AAW members visit AAW's website and forum in any given month.
Owen Lowe said:Do we want a popular board or a skillful one?
Garmar said:Which do we have now?
Ed, how many hits do you think were just from George and Dave in the last month? How many for me? I might access the forum sites anywhere from 3 to 20 times in any given day. If the information page has 6 threads and I click on just 2 pages each aren't the number off?
Ron,
I think an average of 5 to 10 page views per visitor is a pretty good number to work with. But, if the average number per visitor was 20 page views for example, then that would mean we had over 14,500 visitors to the main site in July - that's a very big number. Of course, some of those visits may be the same person coming back several times - then again, a 20 page view average per visit is conservative IMHO.
What I can say for sure is that 13,095 different AAW members have logged onto the main site's members area at least once since it was first made available about three and a half years ago. Some of those people have probably left AAW, but based on the annual membership renewal rates, I'm pretty confident in saying that at least 60 percent of AAW's current membership has visited the members area at least once.
All of this talk about unique visitors and page views is a complete wast of time and bandwidth trying to figure how many people actually use the AAW website.
Unless there is a way to determine how many AAW members specifically log onto the site the information is useless. .
If you want to do something constructive, work on finding a way to promote the use of the site to the AAW membership.
Ron, you are confusing the main site and forum numbers – two different domains, two different hosts and two different sets of stats.
Sigh…I guess this is too much data for too many people to slice, dice and argue about. Never mind, guys. Signing off on this subject.
The Statement from Mary Lacer and the Board of Directors (August 10, 2010) posted on the AAW home page includes the following quote:
"The Board of Directors simply wishes to move the AAW in new directions."
I would gratefully appreciate it if the current Board Members, and the Candidates for the Board of Directors, would post their reflections detailing the new direction that we're going.
Thank you for taking the time to share this information with the AAW membership.
Talk about a thread being taken off target . . . . below was my original post.