on Fri 16 of July, 2010 20:54 BST, by Len
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Behind the scenes, and what I see on the stats (Using your detested Google Analytics, and website logs.) It is interesting to see the gradual decline of one being replaced by the gradual increase in the other.
Meetup has declined from +/- 250 visits per day in Jan/Mar, to +/- 75 per day in July. This site in the meantime is now achieving +/- 30 per day with a much reduced pool of users at present. Already we are getting some 10% of visits from search engines. Some July decline is perfectly normal. However, this decline is somewhat marked in comparison to past years from memory. Using my own Website logs, I know that Google does not include the many visits by its own robots or those of Bing, Yahoo Et. Al.
End of an era
Behind the scenes, and what I see on the stats (Using your detested Google Analytics, and website logs.) It is interesting to see the gradual decline of one being replaced by the gradual increase in the other.
Meetup has declined from +/- 250 visits per day in Jan/Mar, to +/- 75 per day in July. This site in the meantime is now achieving +/- 30 per day with a much reduced pool of users at present. Already we are getting some 10% of visits from search engines. Some July decline is perfectly normal. However, this decline is somewhat marked in comparison to past years from memory. Using my own Website logs, I know that Google does not include the many visits by its own robots or those of Bing, Yahoo Et. Al.
While it certainly is the end of an era with Bandaluthia slipping into the second page. When the Meetup site was running well, that could have happened if no one posted on a thread within just a few days. The last post to Bandaluthia on Meetup was nearly a month ago. In the mean time its life continues unabated here, just as Rosé of the Rhineland does.
Len