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Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:17 pm
by mik
Do we have them :?: :?: :?:

Or is it just several forumites not logged on? :?

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Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:20 pm
by GG.
Probably the latter given we are now an obscure backwater of the internet...

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:29 pm
by Matty
I mean, we international now fam

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:12 pm
by 240PP
There's 5000 members?!

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:13 pm
by GG.
The members section of the site shows only 148 registered users - I guess the 'users' in the above is people who have viewed the webpage? That's quite a lot of lurkers!

Although is the 5,241 IP address/i.e. devices rather than individual users?

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:16 pm
by Matty
Those are sessions - which is essentially a visit to the site by a user. The above was over a timeframe of 5 months.

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:19 pm
by GG.
Interesting - so the number is pretty meaningless but it shows overseas usage.

Does it not flag if you use your phone abroad or does that show up as a UK user still (must do I guess because I logged in from Italy within the last 5 months and that doesn't show (unless its outside the top ten I guess).

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:41 pm
by Matty
It's useful metric when taken in the context of the other figures - hits, sessions, durations etc. Not for this forum, but if your website is business related then Google Analytics is a powerful tool to see reach, how long people spend on there, and so on.

Location will be based on IP address. Italy was number 11 !

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:06 pm
by GG.
No UAE interestingly... maybe JL lives in Germany these days... it does feature suspiciously highly!!

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:51 pm
by jamcg
Has jl been on at all the last 5 months?

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:34 am
by mik
No idea when JL was last on (though his post count is still higher than mine). I chatted via email not long after he left and he wasn’t missing it.

I like the idea that the lurkers are all the leavers. That TVR bloke - whose friends should have told him really about his vest top - is probably one of them then. :D

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:36 am
by Broccers
mik wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:34 am No idea when JL was last on (though his post count is still higher than mine). I chatted via email not long after he left and he wasn’t missing it.

I like the idea that the lurkers are all the leavers. That TVR bloke - whose friends should have told him really about his vest top - is probably one of them then. :D
raf dug?

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:42 pm
by scotta
Everytime i open the site on my iphone its logged me out. I only log in if i need to post so may be an element of that.

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:53 pm
by dinny_g
scotta wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:42 pm Everytime i open the site on my iphone its logged me out. I only log in if i need to post so may be an element of that.
This

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:24 pm
by Marv
scotta wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:42 pm Everytime i open the site on my iphone its logged me out. I only log in if i need to post so may be an element of that.
+1 but with Android

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:15 pm
by Ascender
I'm always surprised by the amount of thread views compared to the number of replies.

Re: Lurkers?

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:36 pm
by Matty
scotta wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:42 pm Everytime i open the site on my iphone its logged me out. I only log in if i need to post so may be an element of that.
This is to do with how often your IP address changes. I can turn that off.