Re: This forum will become as large as YOU make it!

[Martijn (admin)]

Very nice to see that the exposure of the forum is still growing:

- in october 2011 the forum was visited by over 18.000 absolutely unique visitors

[Patti]

Very nice to see that the exposure of the forum is still growing:

- in october 2011 the forum was visited by over 18.000 absolutely unique visitors

That is amazing!
Since palmistry itself isn't really a mainstream subject, can you tell what page(s) pull this huge inflow of visitors? Is it from a particular day or days where an attractive topic heading is in the suggested links below?

Out of 18,000 visitors, who cannot read pages requiring logging in, only about 130 actual people signed into the forum in this same time period. Many signed in once in the past 30 days.

I would imagine there is a page or pages that will reflect an abnormal skyrocketing hits in comparison to others.

Good job on getting the forum noticed in the mainstream.

[Martijn (admin)]

That is amazing!
Since palmistry itself isn't really a mainstream subject, can you tell what page(s) pull this huge inflow of visitors? Is it from a particular day or days where an attractive topic heading is in the suggested links below?

Out of 18,000 visitors, who cannot read pages requiring logging in, only about 130 actual people signed into the forum in this same time period. Many signed in once in the past 30 days.

I would imagine there is a page or pages that will reflect an abnormal skyrocketing hits in comparison to others.

Good job on getting the forum noticed in the mainstream.

Hi Patti,

Yes, I can specify these numbers a little bit more:
- 133 members have signed in between october 1 and today (but probably quite some of the 1085+ members probably have visited the forum without signing in)


Additionally I can specify the numbers a little bit more with my Google analytics account for the month october:

In total the forum generated 40.300 unique pageviews, including:

* 3.802 unique pageviews concerning the forum's homepage.

* And the following 5 topics & forum sections have attracted the most visitors - in terms of pageviews:
- https://www.modernhandreadingforum.com/t324-love-marriage-indicative-lines (1263 unique pageviews)
- https://www.modernhandreadingforum.com/t326-famous-simian-lines-which-famous-persons-have-a-simian-line (949 unique pageviews)
- https://www.modernhandreadingforum.com/t159-jeremy-beadle-s-hands-king-of-jokes-had-a-small-little-baby-hand-poland-syndrome (877 unique pageviews)
- https://www.modernhandreadingforum.com/t514-hrithik-roshan-s-hands-about-the-double-thumb-of-his-right-hand-now-at-madame-tussauds (766 unique pageviews)- https://www.modernhandreadingforum.com/f10-iib-ask-one-or-more-specified-questions-about-your-hands (611 unique pageviews)

Which implicates that the homepage + these 5 topics generates about 20% of all visitor activity.


And finally I can report that 23% of the visits relate to people who have visited the forum at least 2 times in october, and 7% of the visits relate to people who have visited 50+ times in october.


Patti, does this answer your questions?

[Patti]

Yes!

[Martijn (admin)]

Very nice to see that the exposure of the forum is still growing:

- in october 2011 the forum was visited by over 18.000 absolutely unique visitors

I can report that the growth of our forum continued in november:
18.882 absolutely unique visitors.


PS. Also, interesting to see that the no. of new members was in november higher than ever before: 89 new members (an average of almost 3 new members per day).

[Martijn (admin)]

A brief update:

In the early days of january 2012 the forum statistics show 2 3 days with 800+ unique visitors (in 2011 there were only 3 likewise days), and the average number of daily visitors has arrived in 2012 at 700+.



EDIT: Just edited the number of days, because january 17 ended at almost 900 unique visitors.

[Martijn (admin)]

Yesterday the forum welcomed more visitors than ever before counting 1.297 unique visitors.

And... the january 2012 was the best month so far: counting 22.821 unique visitors - a growth of +142% compared to january 2011!!!


An overview of the 2011 Google Analytics statistics:

December: 18.504
November: 18.452
October: 18.187
September: 14.373
Augustus: 16.869
July: 16.865
June: 12.036
May: 10.983
April: 9.252
March: 9.808
February: 9.477
January: 9.418

[Martijn (admin)]

... During the past 3 weeks the forum has not seen a single day with less than 750 unique visitors, so I have adjusted the welcome message at the homepage again:

"This international community of 750+ daily visitors, debates the basic principles of modern Hand Analysis & classic Palmistry.... "

[Martijn (admin)]

... During the past 3 weeks the forum has not seen a single day with less than 800 unique visitors, so I have adjusted the welcome message at the homepage again:

"This international community of 800+ daily visitors, debates the basic principles of modern Hand Analysis & classic Palmistry.... "

[Lynn]

and long may it continue to grow.
thanks for your interest in hands everyone!

[Ramann]

Hello Martijn,

Its good to know and thanks for keeping the ball rolling.

Cheers..
Raman

[Martijn (admin)]

TIME FOR ANOTHER UPDATE:

... During the past 3 weeks the forum has not seen a single day with less than 850 unique visitors, so I have adjusted the welcome message at the homepage again:

"This international community of 850+ daily visitors, debates the basic principles of modern Hand Analysis & classic Palmistry.... "

[Martijn (admin)]

In the perspective of forum visitors:

February 2012 became by far the best month so far: counting 25.996 unique visitors,
a growth of +14% compared to january 2012. And during the past 3 days visitor numbers peaked every day above 1000!!!.


An overview of the 2012 Google Analytics statistics:

February: 25.996
January: 22.821

An overview of the 2011 Google Analytics statistics:

December: 18.504
November: 18.452
October: 18.187
September: 14.373
Augustus: 16.869
July: 16.865
June: 12.036
May: 10.983
April: 9.252
March: 9.808
February: 9.477
January: 9.418

[Ramann]

Hello Martijn,

Its really good.The statistics are on all time high..

But can we have statistics of what the visitors are looking for like the statistics of the pages viewed.Bifurcation of the parts of the forum these visitors look into.

Also uploading images are some what difficult.Can we make it more user friendly?

Also can we have a very brief feedback from visitors for the areas of improvement without any mandatory requirement of email and other details.Or what made the visitor visit this page.

Best Regards

Raman

[Lynn]

hi Raman, regarding statistics of the pages viewed - when you are logged in you can see 'members only tools' at top left of screen, you can click on 'most active and viewed topics'.

[Martijn (admin)]

Hello Martijn,

Its really good.The statistics are on all time high..

But can we have statistics of what the visitors are looking for like the statistics of the pages viewed.Bifurcation of the parts of the forum these visitors look into.

Also uploading images are some what difficult.Can we make it more user friendly?

Also can we have a very brief feedback from visitors for the areas of improvement without any mandatory requirement of email and other details.Or what made the visitor visit this page.

Best Regards

Raman

Hello Raman,

Thank you for your request!

Beyond Lynn's answer I can also recommend to follow the latest news letter, which e.g. provide info about which topics are relatively popular:
- Forum newsletter december 2011
- Forum Newsletters 2012

In the next newsletter I will introduce a new section, titled: 'Last month's most viewed topics'!

[Ramann]

Hello Martijn,

The Newsletters are to some extent what I was looking for.Had a look at them when you first posted.But somehow skipped my mind.So I wrote when I saw you latest post under this particular heading.I wonder if the forum has a sub heading for the monthly newsletter in the home page display.Anyways the contents are good for the newsletter for monthly reviews of the past activities.

Regards

Raman

[Ramann]

hi Raman, regarding statistics of the pages viewed - when you are logged in you can see 'members only tools' at top left of screen, you can click on 'most active and viewed topics'.

Hello Lynn,

Yes I am aware of the tools.But visitors can visit only what has already been posted.So had the topics been different the active and most views posts would been different.So viewers are only seeing what they should.May not be what they want.

My intention has been to find what makes the readers visit this site at first place.Do they want a reading?Do they want to know more about palmistry?Do they have any apprehensions and queries about palmistry in general?Or what has been their experience at this forum for them to recommend to others?Or will they visit the site in future? etc etc.Sort of a feedback to improve upon.

Wishes
Raman

[Lynn]

hi Raman, ah yes I understand now what you were asking.

[Martijn (admin)]

hi Raman, regarding statistics of the pages viewed - when you are logged in you can see 'members only tools' at top left of screen, you can click on 'most active and viewed topics'.

Hello Lynn,

Yes I am aware of the tools.But visitors can visit only what has already been posted.So had the topics been different the active and most views posts would been different.So viewers are only seeing what they should.May not be what they want.

My intention has been to find what makes the readers visit this site at first place.Do they want a reading?Do they want to know more about palmistry?Do they have any apprehensions and queries about palmistry in general?Or what has been their experience at this forum for them to recommend to others?Or will they visit the site in future? etc etc.Sort of a feedback to improve upon.

Wishes
Raman

Hello Raman,

In general, you successfully described the most common shared motives for consulting this forum. Beyond the motives that you already described, about 15% of the visitors find the Modern Hand Reading forum in searching for info about 'celebrities'.

On a personal level, I can also recommend you to consult the 'new member introduction forum' (where people often tend to describe their personal motive for visiting/using this forum), see:
https://www.modernhandreadingforum.com/f36-ib-new-member-introductions




PS. The 'most viewed topics' may NOT provide a good impression about why people visit this forum, because the variation in their motives is much larger than what is indicated by the TOP 10 most viewed topics! Again, in the next newsletter I will include a list of the most viewed topics... maybe I will include a list of the TOP 10 most viewed forum sections as well.

[Martijn (admin)]

The Modern Hand Reading forum activity continues to show impressive growth: for the very first time the forum reached beyond 7.000 unique visitors - during the past 7 days!

Since early february (and until the present week) the numbers had varied between 6.300 and 6.700 weekly unique visitors.


PS. 500+ members who have posted at least once inside the public forum - including 140+ members who have created at least 10 posts!

(So far 20 members made 100+ posts)

[Martijn (admin)]

Time for a new forum visitors update:

March 2012 became by far the best month so far: counting 28.833 unique visitors,
a growth of almost 11% compared to february 2012. During 3 days visitor numbers peaked above 1100, only during 4 days the numbers were below 950 daily visitors!


An overview of the 2012 Google Analytics statistics:

March: 28.833
February: 25.996
January: 22.821

(These numbers implicate that over 40% growth was established in the 1st quarter of 2012 - compared to the 4th quarter in 2011!)


An overview of the 2011 Google Analytics statistics:

December: 18.504
November: 18.452
October: 18.187

(14% growth compared to the 3rd quarter)

September: 14.373
Augustus: 16.869
July: 16.865

(49% growth compared to the 2nd quarter)

June: 12.036
May: 10.983
April: 9.252

(12% growth compared to the 1st quarter)

March: 9.808
February: 9.477
January: 9.418

[Ramann]

[Martijn (admin)]

Yesterday ended with a new day-record... for the first time the forum welcomed more than 1.300 unique visitors: Google Analytics reports 1331 visitors!

[Lynn]

whoa! the forum is buzzing with new posts, I can't keep up recently!

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