Dinotoyblog/forum stats

[anchry6]

Hello, I would like to know if you can get some information about users of the site.
Such as, for example, the number of visitors every day and if there is an estimate of the number of real users of the site.
Thank you.

[DinoToyForum]

Hello, I would like to know if you can get some information about users of the site.
Such as, for example, the number of visitors every day and if there is an estimate of the number of real users of the site.
Thank you.

Yep, I track visitor activity on the Blog and Forum using Google Analytics. Here are some ball park averages for the last four months or so.

The Dinosaur Toy Blog gets ~400 unique daily visitors and ~1300 daily page views.
The Dinosaur Toy Forum (V2) gets fewer unique daily visitors (~250) but, not surprisingly, more daily page views (~5000).

The old V1 forum archive gets ~400 unique visitors (more than V2, mainly due to its greater prominence in google listings) but fewer daily page views (~1200).

There is, of course, a large proportion of returning visitors to all three places

Is there a specific reason for your interest?

[anchry6]

I need this information because I would make a good impression as I write this letter to Papo (chosen for the two dinosaurs from the forum).
The more we are than we have more chance that we listen.
So I can use the information you gave me for this purpose?

[DinoToyForum]

I need this information because I would make a good impression as I write this letter to Papo (chosen for the two dinosaurs from the forum).
The more we are than we have more chance that we listen.
So I can use the information you gave me for this purpose?

Feel free to quote them if you feel it helps your cause 

[anchry6]

Thank you!

[DinoToyForum]

I was checking the forum stats today and was surprised to see that since we opened v2 in 2012 we've chalked up over 6 million page views from 225,000 individual visitors!

[Arul]

I was checking the forum stats today and was surprised to see that since we opened v2 in 2012 we've chalked up over 6 million page views from 225,000 individual visitors!

That is amazing, bravo DTF !! 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

AWESOME!

[DinoToyForum]

I checked our stats properly today for the first time in a while. In total, DTFv2 has received a staggering 12 million page views from 460,000 unique visitors.

[Lanthanotus]

Impressive number for such a comparably small community forum

Would you mind also giving some more numbers as in that post above?

Yep, I track visitor activity on the Blog and Forum using Google Analytics. Here are some ball park averages for the last four months or so.
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[Libraraptor]

I checked our stats properly today for the first time in a while. In total, DTFv2 has received a staggering 12 million page views from 460,000 unique visitors.

This is really impressive!

[DinoToyForum]

Impressive number for such a comparably small community forum

Would you mind also giving some more numbers as in that post above?

Yep, I track visitor activity on the Blog and Forum using Google Analytics. Here are some ball park averages for the last four months or so.
[...]

Sure!

The Dinosaur Toy Blog is still about the same as it was in 2012, while the Dinosaur Toy Forum (V2) gets ~700 unique daily visitors (up from ~250 in 2012) and ~7000 daily page views (up from ~5000 in 2012). Below are the full stats from March 2012 to Nov 2017 in graph form (line graphs represent monthly figures). Happy analysing! 

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks, Adam

[DinoToyForum]

The peak in forum users one month in 2015 was due to an upvoted reddit link that led to an influx of traffic. Most of that traffic bounced, which is why there wasn't an equivalent peak in page views.

Shortly before that, both the blog and forum were hit hard in search engine rankings because of extended periods of downtime. It is a shame because ranking and visitor numbers definitely seemed to be trending upwards prior to that. Maybe it would've plateaued anyway.

There is a recent dip in visitor numbers to the blog due to decreased activity since the summer (my fault), but the numbers have been rising sharply since the December reviews 'bloom'.