TBT Continues to Grow

[Tyler]

GDC = Game Developer's Conference 2007
T.G.S = Tokyo Game Show
Nintendo SC = Nintendo Media Summit

It's a fact to anyone with a brain; TBT is growing faster than ever.

As you can see, the chart starts off when the site opened, which also marks the day when we got a new domain, so everything before that can't be charted. Now I've marked a few events that could have possibly caused spur, and I'll leave it up to you guys to tell me what you think.

As you can see, activity was slow, having a few bumps of activty which is normal for winter here at TBT, until late February. Now I don't have photographic memory, however I do think that would be a mixed amount of things going on. First off there's all the Valentines thing going out throughout the forum, as well as the bot activity. (Hopefully the activity wasn't coming from people looking at the stuff, if ya get me right D=) It is debatable if it were GDC, however really not much happened during GDC activity wise.

Things were at a slow normal rate until the Dojo opened up, which didn't stir too much activity on the site at all. Summer went by as normal, with E3 showing some activity.

and than out of nowhere...

SHABAMZA!

Nsider closes and mass panic comes. About a hundred new members join, and some of them are still a big part of the forum community. However, this graph isn't for the forums, it's for the entire domain of TBT, so while I'm sure that did affect how TBT has done, in the long run it doesn't do too much... right?

This is where I will stop, and you guys can put in your thoughts. Anything on the site that could have jolted this sudden spur of activity? Will it last throughout the entire Winter, and if it doesn't, when will it pick up again?

Discuss.

 

[Fabioisonfire]

That big spike there in the middle is me joining.

 

[Tyler]

That big spike there in the middle is me joining.

Assuming that would be your alt, correct? :gyroidtongue:

 

[Bulerias]

It's the Virtual Console section of the website. I've been advertising it like crazy, and it's the most visited section of the site, or perhaps second to the Gamers' Lounge. The activity will continue to rise, seeing a high point in March 2008, when WiiWare launches. Naturally I'll be able to cover that... seeing as my rep is now able to hook me up with Points Cards whenever she can make a good case for me.

And WiiWare would be a perfect case. So yes, March 2008... lots of hits. But everyone, please do your best to advertise the GL news stories and VC section. Right now, they are arguably the most important parts of the website.

 

[Bulerias]

That big spike there in the middle is me joining.

Actually, I can tell you what that spike is. It's the time where we experienced the Digg Effect... remember "funniest copy ever"?

 

[Tyler]

That big spike there in the middle is me joining.

Actually, I can tell you what that spike is. It's the time where we experienced the Digg Effect... remember "funniest copy ever"?

Oh yeaaaa.....

;d

 

[Bulerias]

That big spike there in the middle is me joining.

Actually, I can tell you what that spike is. It's the time where we experienced the Digg Effect... remember "funniest copy ever"?

Oh yeaaaa.....

;d

I hope we experience another one of those... sans the site going down.

 

[Furry Sparks]

That big spike there in the middle is me joining.

Actually, I can tell you what that spike is. It's the time where we experienced the Digg Effect... remember "funniest copy ever"?

I remember that =D
The site went down

 

[Bulerias]

Oh yeah, I'd like a little clarification. Does "Nintendo SC" stand for "Nintendo secret conference"?

 

[Tyler]

Oh yeah, I'd like a little clarification. Does "Nintendo SC" stand for "Nintendo secret conference"?

Oh it should be Nintendo Media Summit Conference.

Guess I forgot the M... I do that a lot...

 

[Jeremy]

I'm quite sure that was actually mostly caused by me (and now some other people) using the Alexa FF extension. I guess hardly any TBTers had it before. One of its functions helps determine what sites people visit, so obviously if a TBTer has it, it could help TBT's rank.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5362

(the thing between January and April was from that post in the GL that was popular on digg... you know that thing that caused us to go over our bandwidth limit.)

 

[Tyler]

I'm quite sure that was actually mostly caused by me (and now some other people) using the Alexa FF extension. I guess hardly any TBTers had it before. One of its functions helps determine what sites people visit, so obviously if a TBTer has it, it could help TBT's rank.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5362

(the thing between January and April was from that post in the GL that was popular on digg... you know that thing that caused us to go over our bandwidth limit.)

This isn't rank though, it's page clicks.

 

[Jeremy]

Alexa gets their info from people who use the IE toolbar and the FF extension (which is kind of new).

 

[Furry Sparks]

heh, I was looking around on the alexa thing because I just got the addon storm posted, and I saw this:
Where people go on The-bell-tree.com:
# forums.the-bell-tree.com - 91%
# the-bell-tree.com - 9%

 

[UltraByte]

heh, I was looking around on the alexa thing because I just got the addon storm posted, and I saw this:
Where people go on The-bell-tree.com:
# forums.the-bell-tree.com - 91%
# the-bell-tree.com - 9%

xD That 91 percent is probably us.

 

[Jeremy]

Just imagine how many times you load just one page on any forum. :gyroidtongue:

Read a thread, make a post, go to the index of a board, refresh the home page, look at a profile, check the online users, etc... Compared to a normal website where you get your content on one page.

 

[dogs rule]

who graphed that

 

[Furry Sparks]

who graphed that

http://alexa.com/

they measure traffic to sites and stuff like that.