if this ratio of your forum is high it shows you will have good future for comparing with other forums the two forum must have almost same situations such as audiances languages countries internet connection its software and etc... this ratio for me is 3.1(my alexa rank in my country is 368)mine is vb other forum with similar situation is 2.1(its alexa rank is 133 im my country) then I think my forum will have better future what do u think?
mine is about 3 to 1 as well i think, have 6500 members and almost 3000 active, not sure if thats good or not compared to others, but thats what it is
What's your country out of curiousity? And Alexa ranking isn't based on active users..it's just based on visitors period. So having a high active members ratio isn't really a factor. If anything a site is more profitable if you can have a good percentage bounce. The key is to make those bounces profitable from an ad hopefully.
it is not about alexa ranking.just estimating your vb forum will have better future and more traffic than other forums or not.time of registering of the two forums is a factor too .look at my comparing.all are on footer of your VB forum mine:time of registering: 05 Jun 2004 active members: 1409 members: 44617 posts : 36,105 Threads: 12,369 subject: all aspects of health active members/members ratio:3.15 other forum:time of registering:16 Dec 2003 active members: 2,769 members: 131,759 posts : 789,108 Threads: 162,207 subject: computer and web programing active members/members ratio:2.10 country - language - internet connection- software are similar