Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Web site statistics

[Eamonn]

There's been a bit of discussion (!) recently on website usage - during the ongoing investigations into the causes for the current website instability, the analysis has given us the following figures:

Bandwith usage is averaging 2.3 Gb per day
Avg. hits per day > 170,000
Avg Pages served per day >30,000

Analysing the postings made since June 2005:
A total of 1088 web users made all the postings.
80% of posts are made by 154 website users of which 121 are club members.
This means that 80% of posts were made by 14% of the users.

/anoraks

(updated to include Avg pages / day)

[Edited on 16-2-2006 by Eamonn]

[Henners]

Surely the most important statistic is the number of hits per day - 170,000

What a shop window for the club and Ducati

Don't get too carried away with website hits (on any website). This figure can easily be increased/decreased by either including or excluding graphics within a web page. For example, at the top left of the screen next to the 'Search' word there is a small magnifying glass image. By putting a second magnifying glass on the page, the number of hits would also increase - equally if we removed the small icons and left purely the text names of the functions, the hits would drop.

The best figure (IMO) to use is the number of pages viewed per day - and that's one I don't have to hand right now.... typical ! I'll have to rerun the analysis programs again.....

Eamonn

[Edited on 16-2-2006 by Admin]

[weeksy2]

first thing i'd do is look at the bandwidth... that's a highly likliehood of two things.

1. high cost to run
2. problems with site


get the Avatars off, the sigs off and the pic hosting off. (sorry all, but it's really the best option).

[Edited on 16-2-2006 by weeksy2]

[Eamonn]

You could well be right Steve, but the last time I suggested removing avatars etc., I wasn't very popular..... !

[weeksy2]

that was before the site was falling over more than Coco the clown mate

i rekon if the knockers can't accept it and think it's worth testing to bring the bandwidth down....

then tough really... people want improvements... i personally would't give them the option

[itexuk]

80% of posts are made by 154 website users of which 121 are club members.

How many club member do we have?

[ali]

Forcing people to host their avatars elsewhere would remove a large chunk of the traffic.

The other (more expensive) option would be to use someone like Akamai for distributed caching. We use them at work and they handle >95% of our daily traffic (about 3m page views/day, 450gb/day).

2.3Gb/day sounds very high for a site where most of the images should be cached pretty quickly. What about entirely separate hosting for the uploaded images. I'm sure this could be coded in, and would take a lot of the strain off the BB server.

Good luck.

Ali

[ali]

Originally posted by weeksy2

get the Avatars off, the sigs off and the pic hosting off. (sorry all, but it's really the best option).

I can't see how the sigs would contribute at all to the bandwidth (other than a tiny bit of text). You can't upload images, so they must be hosted elsewhere, so there's no transfer through the DSC servers.

[Henners]

The number of club members using the website isn't the point. The purpose of the website is the point.

What is the club's reason for having a website in the first place? If it's to allow non club members and members alike to have access to an online community for all the good reasons that can offer then we need a website.

If we need a website we need one that offers a good level of performance. Currently with broadband and a new computer running huge processor speed and 1GB RAM the pages on this site still take anything up to 15 seconds to load. Why? No other messageboard I visit takes that long.

If we need new software it's not expensive to get. If we need a new ISP then they're out there. If we need to pay someone to transfer it all the club has to decide to pay that money - if - the business case for providing a website as part of the club package is proven.

So it's not about how many paying club members post on the site - it's how much value the site offers the club.