Improved stats!!

[Shockwave]

Thank you to everyone who has been trying so hard to get some activity into the site, I also would love to thank everyone who took the time to actually suggest things for the front page when I sent a pm to some people, for those who took the time to think about that PM, thank you very much and you can take a large part of the credit for this.

Our average amount of unique visitors is about 4,000 a month when you exclude webbots and re-visits.

Only 11 days into july we already have 2000+ , this is a huge, huge increase and we are well on course to get over 5000 unique visitors this month for the first time.

Bearing in mind that a single icon, text file or pic is classed as a hit, it's no mean feat to know that we have had nearly three million hits of this kind so far this year.

Total transfer (this month) for dbf and retro remakes is already 3gb.

seriously guys, this is really impressive, and on the forum, people are writing tutorials, there are loads of guests accessing them from the front page, hopefully the great trend will continue.

A huge thank you from me for making DBF the success that it is.

Stats captured from cpannel 10 mins ago:

[benny!]

@Shocky:
Thanks for supplying some stats. It is very interesting to see.

I am also very happy about the way the forum evolve these
days. Interesting articles, tutorials and a new competition. Makes
really fun to browse it again.

I'll keep my finger crossed and knock three times on wood that it
stays this way.

[Hotshot]

WELLDONE Shockwave 

I'll keep my finger crossed and knock three times on wood that it
stays this way.

me too mr benny hill 

[rdc]

Summer has been always been slow here in the US with school out, vacations and such. Since the trend is on the positive side, and summer is rolling along here, the trend should increase, especially as we head into fall.

I will make a guess and say that the two big factors are the new front end (mostly), and the new tutorial section. It would interesting to know if this is the actual case or not, but it seems plausible to me. I have been checking the tuts, all of them, not just mine, and there seems to be a steady increase in page views.

As school lets in back in here, I think the tuts will be a big draw, as folks look for info on how to do things. Having them in their own section is a plus, since it is easy to access and find the info. I know that on the programming forums I visit, people looking for info, tips and tricks is one of the major things people post about.

Well done Master Shockie and Acolyte Admins!

[Shockwave]

The hits remain strong, registrations are up and there are lots of new posts, not only are there new posts but t here are plenty of new topics.

Interesting what you wrote there rick, because hits through the portal and into the tutorials are very strong, most of those topic views are coming from the portal and there are more guests viewing the forum than we have had for a long long time.

[Moroboshisan]

... since last year I'm posting a link to DBF on my FB profile from time to time, to give some kind of visibility to the general public... hope that helps... I do not see any kind of feedback or questions coming from those posts... you know, Italian SCENE has virtually disappeared (if there really was one) since late 90s and even less active sceners today... [please note: when I use the words SCENE and SCENERS i mean just that, not boozers or idlers].

Shocky: have you seen some suspicious hits coming from Italy?

[Shockwave]

We do serve quite a few pages to Italy, in fact we have served 1320 this month so far.
The other thing that people sometimes miss is that having the links on FB, spiders will find it so you are actually helping the site even if the links don't generate much direct traffic