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In the interest of a kind of comparative trend-survey among long time admins (and short time/term too!) and to get the ball rolling, I have included below the longest traffic pattern I have access to on any long running forum, this is a pageviews snapshot from mid-2007onwards (users was not available but this is very similar trend curve).
I think even 6-12 similar shared trend-curves may be enough to settle on a trend and give a world wide view analytics oversight, the kind google has for free due to the proliferation of google analytics deployment across the net.
This kind of info was once easily accessed via the old alexa website. Now it's pay to play - Why don't we simply share rather vanilla info for the same benefit!
If your trend curve is 10 years and more that's great, if it's a bit less, thats ok too. We don't need to go into deep details, we also do not need to know the site URL, but I would like to see if there is a similar curve experienced across other forum platforms (we don't even need to know the platform software) lets just stick to trends over time approach, and see if we can verify that there has been or has not been a broad level of traffic loss across multiple unconncteced forum based sites over a sustained long period.
We all know forums have suffered, but so much time has passed I think this would be a helpful exercise for disparate admins to showcase.
Pagesviews or Users are probably fine tow to pick (do not post URL, language or any other geo local ID info - keep it simple)
If others think we should use a different metric group, chime in, but again, it's about trend spotting here, specific metric other than over time is all that is important, since this is a such a long time run.
I think even 6-12 similar shared trend-curves may be enough to settle on a trend and give a world wide view analytics oversight, the kind google has for free due to the proliferation of google analytics deployment across the net.
This kind of info was once easily accessed via the old alexa website. Now it's pay to play - Why don't we simply share rather vanilla info for the same benefit!
If your trend curve is 10 years and more that's great, if it's a bit less, thats ok too. We don't need to go into deep details, we also do not need to know the site URL, but I would like to see if there is a similar curve experienced across other forum platforms (we don't even need to know the platform software) lets just stick to trends over time approach, and see if we can verify that there has been or has not been a broad level of traffic loss across multiple unconncteced forum based sites over a sustained long period.
We all know forums have suffered, but so much time has passed I think this would be a helpful exercise for disparate admins to showcase.
Pagesviews or Users are probably fine tow to pick (do not post URL, language or any other geo local ID info - keep it simple)
If others think we should use a different metric group, chime in, but again, it's about trend spotting here, specific metric other than over time is all that is important, since this is a such a long time run.
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