BITOG useage habits

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I never paid much attention to it until the mod duties ...but now I get to note the useage habits to a degree. These are casual observations ..I haven't really plotted them.

Monday-Wednesday: Little trafic during the day. Some hard core members/guests hit it up before work ...at what would be considered break/coffee time ..maybe after lunch. There's a spike just before quitting time. All this kinda "rolls" across the nation as the times zones come up. Evening useage, although more, is pretty much even as it "rolls".

This leads me to believe that most of you are actually getting the majority of your work done during these three days.

The habit appears to have an upramp on Thursday and Friday. This tells me that you've either completed most of your required work ..and have managed to get a little more "quality time" worked in with the board, or have just has the xxhits of it :^). The peak useage (more or less) appears after dinner hour on Friday evening.

Saturday morning through mid afternoon ...low to moderate. Most of you are working on whatever excursion or project that you've picked for the day (shopping, fixing, going, etc.). As the day wears on ..you then come on line to discuss it if it was a noteworthy event.

Sunday morning: Some use it to wake up to. Perhaps a cup of coffee or two. Very low useage between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Moderate useage til around 3-5p.m. Sunday evening is fairly lively ..but it sharply drops when it's about a reasonable bedtime when you have to get up to work the next day.
 
Is the data in a tabular or graphed form so you can reduce it to a graph and put it someplace you can link to it?

That remind me of hearing about city water departments being able to spot commercials during major TV shows like big football games by the change in water pressure as the entire city flushes at once.
 
Well, I think your view is the same as mine ..but I've got some enhanced administrator features. It doesn't appear in graph form, nor am I aware of an "historical" ..but just go to the "visitors" section at the bottom of the main page. It takes 90 minute slices of useage. Peak useage (the highest that I've looked at) is around 500 visitors for that slice. Monday mornings ..it's down as low as 38 for that time period. The "rolling" effect (time zone shift) was most apparent when the board was locked to all but registered users. Those seeking passwords were a constant stream from quitting time (since many couldn't log on from work) ...all the way up to about 11 p.m. PT ..and then the asians dribbled in beyond that (the wee hours fo the morning here).

You and Pablo appear to be frequent exceptions. There are others.
 
I hope mine isn't that high
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Just wait until I start my new job!

Yeah! Then you can be here more often. It's hard to justify being at home and screwing off on BITOG when you can do useful stuff. A work, it's a whole different ballgame.
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Gary, do you have any idea how much BITOG costs the world in terms of lost productivity while people are at work and screwing off here?
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Originally posted by Pablo:
Just scan the professions of members, say 5000-8XXX....hardly heavy posters (yet), but boy they are siphoning the worlds productivity!

Just scanned professions of users in order of number of posts. There is lot of lost productivity in the top end of that list.
 
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Gary, do you have any idea how much BITOG costs the world in terms of lost productivity while people are at work and screwing off here?
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Yep! The best I figure is that soem are merely contained at work since they may be unable to post from their desk computer. They then unleash once they get home.
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Originally posted by Pablo:
XS650 - Good point - no sense talking about the already wasted productivity, though! I was thinking of that giant sucking sound in the future
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I agree, there already wasn't much doubt that those of us in towards the top of the list don't much useful work.

The trend you spotted is frightening.
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Some companies pay their employees to be good...


I tell them that if they hire me, I'll be good for nothin`.
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Can you calculate the rate of change for new membership....say currently vs. 1 year ago or so?

I just would like to know if the rate is a constant upward slope or are we flattening off? Seasonal?
 
On 1 April 2004 when I purchased the site, we had just shy of 4000 members. On May 9, 2004, we had 4000 registered members. Today, 13 months later we have almost 8000 members. We doubled our membership in 14 months (148 members shy of double). Our page views and downloads are so high, we are now using a second server just to handle the oil filter study, the air filter study and many other lengthy articles. This is how we can handle an average of 1 million page views per month and not slow down the site.

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