Stats: Who is online Users active over the last 24 hours

[Surfcrest]

Stats: Who is online Users active over the last 24 hours

This site hasn't always been collecting and posting the Stats of Who is Online over the last 24 Hours, but it has since September 2012.
Here are some comparisons against our current Who is Online over the last 24 Hours Stats taken from dated snapshots from the old Board;

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Surfcrest/May12013.jpg

May 1, 2013 Start of New Ownership


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Surfcrest/Jan162013.jpg

January 13, 2013


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Surfcrest/Sept202012.jpg

September 20, 2012


These Stats don't always give a clear picture to what is going on with the site.

For example, back on May 16, 2012 the Board Stats will tell you they had their most ever users online.Users online before and after that blip were about 200 and change, including guests, bots and spiders.

Most users ever online was 964 on Wed May 16, 2012 but if you were to go back to May 16, 2012...there was nothing really going on, which an esteemed poster alluded to in lonelywombat's thread on the topic at the time.

http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/15pm-wednesday-may-16pm-record-smashed-t26508.html

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/Surfcrest/May192012.jpg

May 19, 2012


http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/gay-thailand-f9-1850.html

If you are interested in stats, please let us know...the site continues to collect all sorts of non-personal traffic information that we could share.

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[lonelywombat]

I was in Pattaya right at that time Wednesday 16 May 2012 and was doing my email and business matters in a netcafe on the east side of Tukcom.

I had logged into Sawatdee and was surprised at the small increase in numbers, shocked 30 minutes later to see a huge increase and then stayed logged in trying to make sense of what was happening. The PM's I exchanged with Neal have been deleted due to PM storage size. I have no copies of the messages that I believed I posted, and have assumed they were deleted . I was told that a 2011 thread on Hua Hin had been published in a gay circular, but the numbers did not stand up.

Right now I am looking at Sawatdee Gay Thailand, at the bottom of the page is
Users browsing this forum: lonelywombat, Majestic-12 [Bot] and 14 guests
I checked the other forums , and except for myself a maximum of two others viewing

During that period of time May 16 I checked,rechecked and then rechecked again to see what the viewers were reading. The numbers were not there. I think the number viewing is more up to date now,but I checked then all the most recent posts but could not find any justification recorded for the numbers shown. Nothing was posted from any new people, nothing much from members just a huge volume of numbers that could not be substantiated.

I maintained then to Neal who was also on line and to others, if you have the number of hits there should be signs that viewers were actually reading the posts. That was not happening.

The thread from me the following day appears the only comment I made about this. Nothing else remains in my recorded posts.

I copied this from bahtstop
Spring, on 08 Apr 2012 - 3:50 PM, said:

I guess you mean he pushed the Refresh button (F5 with Firefox) that got the number of views up. Actually, I tried it with this page and it worked. Five views were 'created' in a matter of only a few seconds.

But there is still the possibility that he eagerly awaited a response and checked for it every minute or so

First LMTU has been recorded on Bahtstop and then his own site of manually helping the numbers grow.
http://pattayabitchboard.socialparody.c ... itch-board (http://pattayabitchboard.socialparody.com/pg/forum/category/8259292/pattaya-bitch-board)

I cannot check what happened there.

Gaythailand.com also reported a huge lift in viewers at the same time.

I have no reason to suspect LMTU for doing this, but there are others who have picked up the lesson and used it.

Here is a link to the posts those two days 16/17 May 2012 There was very little action , less than what we have at present.

gay-thailand-f9-1850.html (http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/gay-thailand-f9-1850.html)

All I can say is the hits were genuine then the viewers would have been recorded. That did not happen

[Surfcrest]

Actually, it would make no sense for the Board stats to jump from 250...to 964 momentarily...and then right back to 250 even though the percentages of guests to members is still the unknown factor, but you've got a sharp eye!

Here are the links to the Board captures, from the Wayback Machine....enjoy!

September 20, 2012

http://web.archive.org/web/20120920031539/http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/


January 16, 2013

http://web.archive.org/web/20130116004956/http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/


May 1, 2013 Start of New Ownership

http://web.archive.org/web/20130501084733/http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/


We also have a copy of the old Board stored on the server and brand new tools through the Wordpress Plug-ins to deliver even more comprehensive stats.

Surfcrest

[Smiles]

To Surfcrest: you understood a word of Lonely's post?? Don't you realize that no one ever has accomplished such a thing since early in 2004 when had his first "event"?
Neal? Who's Neal? Isn't LMTU dead?

[Surfcrest]

I'm not sure what Neal has to do with it, but the Guest numbers are interesting because some guests are there for a reason.

For example, when I see the Way Back machine taking screen shots of our pages and saving these to public archive, it tells a lot about what those "bots" are up to...especially when you see multiple guests viewing various different pages from a single IP, that these are actually bots. Sometimes these non-human guests are researching key words and so when one is mentioned in a topic title, it may attract other guests coming over to record the conversation. I've seen the guest numbers go up when this happens. As lonleywombat suggests, you would see it in individual page view stats. Our current software allows us to track where the Board traffic is going, which forums, which threads...both members, guests, bots etc...

What matters most, in my opinion, are the number of members online. No doubt, not having to log on every time they visit is bolstering these numbers...but it's all very positive signs for trend and for the time being.

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[lonelywombat]

To Surfcrest: you understood a word of Smiles's post?? Don't you realize that no one ever has accomplished such a thing since early in 2004 when had his first "event"?
Neal? Who's Neal? Isn't LMTU dead?

surfcrest do you really understand or care about Smiles posts?

[Surfcrest]

To Surfcrest: you understood a word of Smiles's post?? Don't you realize that no one ever has accomplished such a thing since early in 2004 when had his first "event"?
Neal? Who's Neal? Isn't LMTU dead?

surfcrest do you really understand or care about Smiles posts?

Care yes, understand no...sorry. I've been working on the Board's security systems...this post was part of some tests I recently ran to screen out any bugs.

Please let me know what you mean...send me a PM or an email if you'd like!

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[andrewcraig]

using refresh button on threads increases the count, have seen it done a few times.
but it does not work for logging on .
users on line records the numbers but they fall off after an hour.
if they had 946 in the highest sign in, then he must have loggged on to the sawatdee forum 946 times in the previous hour

[elephantspike]

There was never 946 users logged-in. It's 946 users online - including guests and bots. All sites have occasional traffic peaks like that. It can be something like a suddenly trending search term on Google that brings up some page on the site that ranks for that keyword phrase. I've never found such things worth obsessing over. It's just the quantum randomness of the web.

[Surfcrest]

It can, however, be used also for a tool...and one that any member can influence.

Let me give you a good example!

http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/anyone-watching-the-latest-ladyboy-show-t26593-15.html?hilit=ladyboy#p272835

When Ronan the Barbarian re-opened a thread on the "ladyboy" TV Show that NIrish Guy started a year earlier, the keyword "ladyboy" came up in a search from solice...now a member here.

When people go to Google or Bing or some other search engine, they / we use keywords to pull what information is out there towards us. Whether we are searching for what the public audience thinks of the second season of "ladyboy", or we are looking for information on Gay Thailand...search engines work in amazing ways, as tools for the user and for the site.

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[elephantspike]

Oh definitely keyword research and search engines are very important. I meant that I don't obsess over the maximum number of users ever online according to the whosonline gizmo.