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Post by Brian on Mar 31, 2022 23:00:13 GMT -8
With the ads gone this year, we're getting a better measure of the actual guests visiting the Montrose Peace Vigil message board. The daily reading in February 2022: - Most guests: 50
- Fewest guests: 15
- Current reading: 31
Guest traffic has been very consistent the first three months without ads on the Montrose Peace Vigil message board. In retrospect, traffic already had been slowing in the last quarter of 2021. Now the monthly peaks and valleys of the visiting IP addresses that I record from Forum Information & Statistics on the bottom of the homepage has settled into a range of roughly half of the average Users Online in the Last 24 Hours before the ads were taken away. The March 2022 readings: - Most guests: 47
- Fewest guests: 15
- Current reading: 32
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Post by Brian on Apr 30, 2022 23:00:29 GMT -8
The stats for April 2022 continue the trend since ads were removed -- a slight monthly slippage of the ceiling of unique IP addresses by nonmembers visiting the message board on a daily basis while the floor holds steady: - Most guests: 45
- Fewest guests: 16
- Current reading: 25
However, the number of page views has been rising steadily each month. As an administrator, I have access to a counter that tallies every ad free look by members and guests. So I'm introducing a new metric to the Traffic Report each month -- total page views. Bringing us up to date: - December 2021: 577 (8 days)
- January 2022: 3,591
- February 2022: 3,932
- March 2022: 4,462
- April 2022: 5,150
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Post by Brian on May 31, 2022 23:00:27 GMT -8
The accumulated number of guests that this message board tallies continuously for the previous 24 hours dwindled a bit in May 2022 on both the high and low ends: - Most guests: 42
- Fewest guests: 13
- Current reading: 37
The number of ad free page views is down less than five percent from the peak in April: - Total page views for the month: 4,908
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Post by Brian on Jun 30, 2022 23:00:07 GMT -8
The number of daily nonmember visits went back up a bit in June 2022 on both the high and low ends: - Most guests: 45
- Fewest guests: 15
- Current reading: 37
As did the ad free page views: - Total page views for the month: 5,061
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Post by Brian on Jul 31, 2022 23:00:12 GMT -8
The peak number of guests in July 2022 wasn't much different than the peaks in previous months, but it occurred on the first day -- the peak was 31 guests during the previous 24 hours for the rest of the month. Also, we had a day when the number of guests sank to a single digit: - Most guests: 42
- Fewest guests: 9
- Current reading: 12
The Montrose Peace Vigil message board had fewer posts in July than the previous two months, when members and guests were discussing the California primary election. Not surprisingly, the ad free page views fell by 11 percent compared to June: - Total page views for the month: 4,508
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Post by Brian on Aug 31, 2022 23:00:31 GMT -8
The number of visitors to the Montrose Peace Vigil message board in August 2022 looks much the same as July: - Most guests: 41
- Fewest guests: 10
- Current reading: 29
However, August's ad free page views totaled 2,300 more than the previous record set in April: - Total page views for the month: 7,435
What's going on? At one point I refreshed the counter in my admin tools and saw them jump over 100 views in one hour when usually there would be just a few to a dozen views in that time. I'd expect greater numbers of guests to account for such an increase in views, but that didn't happen. So either a limited number of bots are surveying more of the message board or human beings are clicking on more pages when they visit -- or both.
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Post by Brian on Sept 30, 2022 23:00:25 GMT -8
In September 2022, this message board had the most guests in any day since New Year's Day, when I removed the ads from the top and bottom of each page: - Most guests: 59
- Fewest guests: 12
- Current reading: 39
The number of ad free page views declined from the record set in August yet they still totaled considerably more than the previous peaks in April and June: - Total page views for the month: 6,253
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Post by Brian on Oct 31, 2022 23:00:22 GMT -8
Traffic remained strong in October 2022: - Most guests: 53
- Fewest guests: 14
- Current reading: 30
The monthly tally of ad free page views did not hit the peaks of August and September, but October's total is greater than any of the first seven months of 2022: - Total page views for the month: 5,505
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Post by Brian on Dec 1, 2022 0:00:12 GMT -8
Daily guest visits in November 2022 remained near the range seen in most of the months since the ads were removed from this message board in January: - Most guests: 42
- Fewest guests: 11
- Current reading: 27
Yet a new peak was set for ad free page views -- 13 percent more clicks than August's record tally and 53 percent more than October: - Total page views for the month: 8,431
Page views accumulated at a brisker pace than usual from the beginning of November. Then the total jumped by a thousand views in less than one day before settling down for the rest of the month.
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Post by Brian on Jan 2, 2023 0:00:22 GMT -8
If you visited the Montrose Peace Vigil message board between 4 p.m. Pacific time on New Year's Eve and just one hour ago, you saw ads on every page because of a problem at ProBoards that (as I post this) has yet to be explained. I was among the first to post on the ProBoards Support Board -- now there are dozens of posts from other admins about losing their ad free subscriptions despite their accounts being marked as paid. But the systems team worked as promised and now the ads are thankfully gone again. Those 31 ad-infested hours are going to skew the peak numbers for last month and this one too because the IP addresses populating the ads are apparently counted as guests. Before December 31, the most guests seen online over a 24-hour period during the month was 49, a typical peak for most of the ad free months in 2022. After midnight on New Year's Day, the daily guests kept accumulating. Ironically, December 30 had the fewest daily guests visiting the message board in its recent history. - Most guests: 61
- Fewest guests: 8
- Current reading: 66
December's total ad free page views was the third highest of the year. It couldn't top November's record when a few IPs racked up more than 1,000 page views in a day, probably bots from online search engines like Google, Bing or BoardReader. The last month of the year doubled January's total of 3,591 views, as our ad free saga began. - Total page views for the month: 7,069
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