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Does anyone have any idea how many people frequent this site? Just curious.
Waterdog
Readership
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that would be
that would be an admin thing? I am sure they have numbers for 'traffic' and unique hits and returns?
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Counter
There is a counter at the bottom of the home page. 53 + million visitors.
Hugs
Francesca
it depends on the counter they are using
is that unique hits, or is it anyone coming to the page? i look in on the page several times a day checking for new stories from my favorite authors and i am sure others do as well
Teresa L.
Depends if they log on
A lot of times, I'll just pop in and see if there's anything new without logging on.
A figure of 50 million times since the beginning of time is not very helpful. Be more interesting to know current weekly stats.
And all counters are
And all counters are basically mangled, anyway. In the very early days of the post-government controlled internet (1994 through about 99), it was usually safe to assume 'one IP = one visitor'. Once routers started to proliferate, it was harder - you could have hundreds of people behind one IP. Then they started being able to track individual IP's inside the router, plus the outside. Then when you add proxy systems (NGINX, etc) it gets even messier.
Most of the time, they try to look at unique visits from an IP in a specific period - such as one hour - but it depends on the site.
Most of the people I host don't bother getting that granular. They're mostly looking at how many times any particular page is looked at (impressions) rather than "did one guy hit the front page sixty seven times in two minutes?".
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Our window for the number at the bottom
Our window for the number at the bottom is 12 hours. If you visit twice in one day, you may get counted twice. But we don't do any shenanigans to decipher how many people are behind a single IP. And if you visit once at home and once while you're in Starbucks, you get counted twice...unless someone in the same Starbucks visited already in the same 12 hr window. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
And if you're me, using a
And if you're me, using a cellular hotspot while doing a day's work driving around town, you may get counted up to forty times.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I teather
I'm telling my phone to my computer and my computer one IP address until I reboot my phone
belle
If I understood that
If I understood that correctly, you mean that you have one IP address from tethering.
Well, that's correct, generally. Your phone acts as a router. However, the phone's IP address can change during the day as you travel around. If you're in one place, you'll keep the same IP. If you're like me, and the phone hotspot gets switched on and off, and you can travel 20 miles two or three times a day, the outside address will change. I notice this because of the disconnects from the servers I'm trying to work on sometimes, even with the 'keep alive' signals going.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Re: Readership
Better question (I hope) How many people are registered with the site?
Waterdog
Readership
You got to ask Erin about that, via private message would be best.
You could also count the number of authors on the author page, then multiply by let say 11 to 14 to have an estimate.
Good luck, tmf