Site Usage

Hello, everyone!I'm having a bit of a busy fall and holiday season, but I just took a moment to check our site statistics, something I haven't done in a long while. It turns out that site traffic has been steadily increasing since the beginning of this past summer:December is low, of course, because we're only 1/3 through the month. If we pass 30GB in a single month it will be a remarkable achievement. 30GB is our monthly limit on the current server, a limit I thought we'd never touch, yet here we are 3/4 of the way there. And more good news: at 41% of capacity, we still have disk space to spare and won't have to prune old threads for perhaps another year.Thanks go to everyone here for our success, and Happy Holidays!--PercyPS - I should explain that the reason the statistics start in May is because our webhosting company changed to a new statistics reporting tool in May. Statistics from before May are available, but in a completely different format. [Added PS. --Percy][This message has been edited by Percipient, 12-12-2003]

To answer the questions:I don't know whether the numbers include both incoming and outgoing. Certainly it includes outgoing. Whatever the case, incoming is probably a tiny proportion of outgoing.NosyNed, I have a little free time tomorrow. If you're still interested in helping out with coding let me know via a post to this thread and I'll make the source code available to you tomorrow.This is the monthly data I have from 2002 on. I have little data for May, 2002, because that was the month we switched webhosting companies. And the data for February, 2003, is low because most data for that month was lost after a server crash. Units are GB:How the increased traffic is balanced between participation and lurking is impossible to say without correlating with message statistics. Moose has the message statistics, perhaps he could give combining them a shot.The site appears to have more evolutionists than Creationists at present. Whether this is a trend or a fluctuation is hard to say.--Percy

Why would I ever stop? This is too much fun!--Percy