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[haselhurst]

Site Statistics

I think it is important that those who are interested in the Wave Structure of Matter and this forum have some access to the site statistics so that you can get a feel for how things are going.
To begin this is pretty basic, but i will add more information over time.

SITE STATS: http://www.spaceandmotion.com (First 3 months of 2005)

Month --- Unique visitors -- Visits ---- Page Views --- Hits ----- Bandwidth
Jan 2005 ---- 85,467 ----- 108,648 ---- 179,391 -- 5,943,185 -- 36.81GB
Feb 2005 --- 172,174 ----- 222,517 ---- 375,245 - 13,046,898 - 82.75 GB
Mar 2005 --- 217,715 ----- 281,409 ---- 472,168 - 17,036,217 - 104.55 GB

Note: The reason why the 'Hits' is so high (0ver 17 million last month) is that it includes images. While we have a lot of images on our pages (makes them more pleasant to read on Internet) we also encourage other people (websites / forums) to link to our images. This has been a deliberate strategy as I think it likely that Google includes image links with links to actual pages when it works out how to rank pages. And since we have done very little in past three months to explain this increase in traffic, and recently our Philosophy of Art page jumped up to 4,000 page views a day (from about 300 page views 3 months ago) this suggest that the strategy is working.

While it is obviously pleasing to see that the results have almost tripled over past three months, this does cause Karene and I some stress. We well realise that pages need a lot of work and hope that this 'success' will help motivate others to help.

On a brighter side, it is interesting to note that about 2,000 people a day (about 25%) are return visitors (in any one month) which suggests that the website is still seen as useful resource. The site stats also show that about 500 people each day spend more than 30 minutes at site, so they must find the pages interesting / useful. This is further confirmed by stats showing that about 1,500 people a day are using bookmarks to either find pages or add pages to their Bookmarks.

As I see things though, we need to greatly improve quality of content, and over next few years hopefully increase page views to around 100,000 a day (which would put website in top 5,000 on planet - currently we are in top 40,000 websites).
Given that these results have been achieved by two people (Karene has been great!) over 12 months (and half of that time has been wasted since I am learning about Google / Internet and have made a lot of mistakes that cost time fixing) then I think this is easily attainable.

It should also be appreciated that about a third of the above visitors are going to pages that we have on Art, Erotic Art, and Kama Sutra. So the numbers going to actual physics philosophy & metaphysics pages are much lower.
I realised some time ago though, that it is very necessary to have a diversity of pages, that together they help to bring in more links, and help ALL pages to rank higher. We currently rank in top 50 for most of the main search terms for physics, philosophy and metaphysics so with a bit more work things can really grow from our humble beginnings!


SITE STATS: http://www.physics-philosophy-metaphysics.com/forum/index.php

This Forum has only been online for a month so it is still early days. According to the information at the bottom of the forum page the most users ever online at one time was 105 on 02 Apr 2005 03:53 am (which is today).
I do not think that can be correct. According to my site stats the forum only averages about 60 unique visitors a day (about 500 total page views / day). The most visitors I have seen at one time when i have been at forum is 5. Most of these visitors come from links we have on spaceandmotion.com website.
It is likely that Google has a 6 month 'probationary' period for new websites where it tends not to rank their pages very highly, so at the moment we do not get many visitors from Search results. This is also related to the fact that there are not many pages / posts on the forum yet. But I would expect in 6 months from now to have at least 1,000 pages / posts and that the forum will be getting considerable traffic. (Thus it is useful to keep creating new posts rather than always replying to existing posts! And to be aware of using correct keywords!)

As i have written elsewhere - it would also be great if we could get 20 people each to build 5 external links back to forum. I think that once a website had links coming in from 100 other unique websites that it would start to come up in search results (which would be very nice!)

For more information on how to Optimise pages for Search Engines see;
http://www.physics-philosophy-metaphysics.com/forum/about60.html (Search Engine Optimisation for Forum)
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/how-to-help-the-wave-structure-of-matter.htm

Will keep you updated as I get more results.
Geoff Haselhurst

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[haselhurst]

Latest Site Stats - Feb. 2006

We still only average around 100 visitors a day. It seems that Google has an inbuilt bias against 'newish' forums so pages do not rank well. (I suspect that they have decided most forums are full of nonsense / opinion, so not worth ranking well).

However, I like this forum being slow / small. There is a steady stream of interesting posts, and over time it will grow into a very good quality science forum I think (I am pretty strict that people abide by guidelines / rules of philosophy / science).
I think that many other forums decay as they grow, get filled with too many diverse / ignorant opinions. I know this sounds elitist, but I just think that all humans are stupid when it comes to philosophy / truth, that it is very hard to work out what really exists, vs what is merely our imaginations. It takes a lot of time, thought and reading other good philosophers, combined with a natural talent. Thus it is very rare to find good quality philosophy of science discussions.
I am encouraged to hope that over time they will discover (and greatly enjoy) this forum.

Cheers,
Geoff Haselhurst