We've reached another milestone!

[Lord Goliath]

I wanted to take a moment to thank all of Bulldog Domain's regular visitors, members, and lurkers.  Thanks to you we reached what I consider a very important milestone in our history - for the month of May we had over 10,000 visits to the site.  Specifically we had 10,799 visits, resulting in 154,454 individual pages viewed, and if you are into counting hits (some sites do) we had 921,789. 

The above numbers don't count any of the search engine traffic we had which accounted for another 18,000 page views. 

So thanks to everyone for making a Bulldog Domain one of your favorite places to go while on the Internet.  Goliath and I really appreciate your support! 

[Lord Goliath]

Hello everyone.

From time to time I receive emails from site visitors concerning various topics that may not be specifically Bulldog related.  Often these have to do with technical aspects about the site, where our visitors come from, how I did a site page, and similar.  I thought it would be a good idea to address these questions on the public forum once in a while in case anyone else is curious. 

So,with that said, I've received some emails from concerned members curious about the web site statistics I posted.  They general question being asked is why do the page views seem relatively low (compared to some other sites). Well it really depends on what other sites and what you consider low.

For the type of forum we have here 154,000 page views is really quite a lot (about 5000 per day). Some other sites may use  different forum type than we do.  A common type of forum page shows the titles of all posts and there may be an indent and the title of each post that responded to the original. Our friends at the Den use this type:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/290509

Why does it matter?  Well it really doesn't unless you want to compare apples to apples.  For those who asked by email and those who may be wondering, consider this:

When you view a post on the forum type above with 15 responses, you click on each response title view it and then you may even go back to main page before viewing the next response in the thread.  Conservatively that would be at minimum 16 page views to read the entire thread for one person.

If the same thread existed here, you would click once on the thread title and the whole thread would be available for you to read at once - 1 page view. So you can quickly see what happens if 10 people read the thread in the first example - that's 160 page views to only 10 at Bulldog Domain. 

Like I said it really doesn't matter but again 154,000 page views here is quite impressive as are over 10,000 monthly visitors (at least to me  )

Thanks to those who were curious.

[Lord Goliath]

I just wanted to let you know that for the past 3 months (Sep - Oct) we surpassed 13,000 visitors per month and currently we have over 6,000 for December so we are right on pace. Thanks everyone!

[Lord Goliath]

To add to this thread, I wanted to share that for 2007 so far (January - July), we have averaged over 21,000 visitors per month and 370,000 page views per month.  That's over 12,000 pages viewed on Bulldog Domain each day!

Thanks to all of you who continue to visit and spread the word about us.  Our continued growth is one reason we are currently working to move the site to a new host - I can't be upset about that!