Tell the Time of Traffic
June 1, 2007
I just took a quick glance at the final statistics for the PNW Riders community for last month and once again we are breaking new records in monthly traffic. Not too long ago, one of my previous blog entries touched on the traffic growth that has been happening on the site, and now I can report the next three months in the same manner.
Looking at the recent three months:
- March 2007 – 20.3 Million hits
- April 2007 – 23.9 Million hits
- May 2007 – 24.8 Million hits
This is the first time the PNW Riders community has exceeded the 20 Million hit mark, showing an amazing amount of traffic and site usage.
The other thing that has been happening over the last three months has been server outages, which have been occurring more frequently. In the early days of the forum, when traffic patterns were low, I never dealt much in the server backend. Lately, I have been spending a lot of time there trying to optimize and make changes to the server to accommodate the site and traffic.
Progress is being made, and a few volunteers from the forum have stepped up and helped out with some of the networking optimization matters, making the think tank better in order to find resolve. The last few days have been the worst in terms of server response and up time, yet I think we have a better understanding as the recent changes seem to be working.
I guess time will tell.
