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How many users online per day?

Discussion in 'Forum Management' started by RectangleMan, Mar 6, 2010.

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    Curious about the percentage of users most forums have online per day out of their entire base.

    Currently my largest forum has 9,500 members per day visit out of the 170,000 registered. So that's about 5%.
     
    RectangleMan, Mar 6, 2010 IP
  2. Tearabite

    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    #2
    i've never actually done the math, but my % is also very low.. off the top of my head probably around 2%-4%
     
    Tearabite, Mar 6, 2010 IP
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    Bohra Prominent Member

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    #3
    i think the low percentage is normal with forums as people get bored of the forum at one or the other moment
     
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    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    #4
    Probably is low but I'd like to have an idea of what is average. This is a parameter I'd like to pinpoint as a measurement of actvity, attention, and retention of members.
     
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    ChopSuey Peon

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    I get 20-200 guests per day :D
     
    ChopSuey, Mar 7, 2010 IP
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    GetALink Guest

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    My forum has 1,200 members and 150 of them post on the forums each day.
     
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    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    #7
    What have you done at ProSportsAddicts to gain the attention of the members so well?

    Are you deleting unactivated members at all?
     
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    Hs McD Peon

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    hmmm...can't compare with you guys..400-600 visitors/day
     
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    Nuno Brito Active Member

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    7000 unique visitors a day with ~27 000 registered members. I don't like that people do sporadic registrations and make this process extra difficult for them (about ~50 new members per day)
     
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    qantar Active Member

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    I'm a new forum manager and my forum just age a couple of days so cant compare to all of you. Hoping to get more UV per day like you guys. :)
     
    qantar, Mar 7, 2010 IP
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    Nuno Brito Active Member

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    Don't focus on quantity of unique visitors per day, focus on good quality visitors that return on daily basis. They're the ones that keep your site alive and well.
     
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    qantar Active Member

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    Yeah, you're right! :)
     
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    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    #13
    That oversimplifies things. You can only expect a certain percentage of visitors to be quality. You increase the members quality by increasing your member pool.

    Example:
    Site has 5000 members
    Quality is 5% base
    250 quality members

    If you want to have a 1000 quality members you need to get 20,000 total members. You won't get quality members every time. That's not how it works.
     
    RectangleMan, Mar 8, 2010 IP
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    Nuno Brito Active Member

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    Sorry, but from my experience I think that value is not accurate as well.

    I have 27 000 members and if I see at least 50 of them as active people moving the forum forward, I already consider myself very lucky.

    There is a lot that an admin can do improve the number of quality members, he needs to take active role in the forum and create connections otherwise what will motivate people to stay and use your forum instead of someone else's?

    :)
     
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    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    #15
    It was only an example of how a percentage works not meant to be an actual percentage.

    And if you want to increase quality at a forum you start by creating good rules and guiding members on the behavior expected. Demanding good grammar for example and deleting crap posts. Maybe even using a minimum character length.

    The tone you set at your forums is going to be a real factor. But without a quantity of members to weed through you will never get quality in quantity. Easier to get 1000 quality members out of 50,000 than it is with 5,000. That's just obvious. The whole quality over quantity argument doesn't really apply to forums imho. You definitely need the quantity if you really want success. DP is a good example. The quality here is crap. But because of it's quantity there is enough quality here to make DP a success.

    DP has 350k members. I'd say less than 500 are quality. Many forums have 25-50 decent members and the rest are just moronic spammers.
     
    RectangleMan, Mar 8, 2010 IP
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    Very true.
     
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    It really depends on the topic as well. My psychology forum only has around over 6700 members but an average 600+ members visit the site everyday and post. We get over 1k post a day.
     
    profanitytalker, Mar 8, 2010 IP
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    qantar Active Member

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    Wow, that is good I think. did you monetize your forum? How was it going?
     
    qantar, Mar 9, 2010 IP
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    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    Holy cow! My site has over 18,000 "active" members, but only about 20-50 log in any given day.. even less make posts.
     
    Tearabite, Mar 10, 2010 IP
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    profanitytalker Well-Known Member

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    I don't quite understand your question. Thing about my site is it's a health site with many discussions ranging on "how to's"

    Wow. What niche are you in and are you keeping up with the site?
     
    profanitytalker, Mar 10, 2010 IP