Topic: State of SoliForum: February 2013
So, I figured I might start posting an announcement every few months or so (Or whenever I feel like it ) with a bit of an update on the state of the community for everyone.
First and foremost, I haven't been too active around here recently. I have browsed the forum at least once a day, but have not been making many posts. I have been a little busy with a new company I am launching soon that works with professional and hobby multirotor/multicopter systems. Just a little update for you guys about me, personally. I would like to pose a question to the community: Would you be OK with me doing a little bit of shameless self promotion about my new company here? (Without going all "polyimide tape" on you, of course )
Secondly, let me give you guys some traffic stats on the forum, because who doesn't like statistics
Since our launch in August, 2012 we have had over 28,725 unique visits to the forums. We have had over 720,593 raw forum pageviews. 70.36% of our visitors are repeat visitors, while 29.64% are brand new visitors.
These are the top countries for our incoming visitors:
1. United States - 59.76%
2. Australia - 6.59%
3. Canada - 5.04%
4. United Kingdom - 3.77%
5. France - 2.97%
6. Germany - 2.45%
7. Norway - 1.72%
8. Sweden - 1.69%
9. Japan - 1.35%
10. Switzerland - 1.28%
The three most popular cities for our visitors to be from are:
1. Sydney - 2.86%
2. New York - 2.27%
3. San Francisco - 2.12%
The three most popular web browsers for our visitors:
1. Chrome - 38.25%
2. Firefox - 21.97%
3. Safari - 20.05%
61.92% of our visitors are using Windows, compared to 14.88% using Mac OSX.
The most popular topic on SoliForum is the Order Shipping Thread in the "Solidoodle Discussion" section. We could have guessed this one though, right?
Here's a graph of our traffic, starting from the beginning:
As you can see, we are steadily growing, expanding, and taking over the world. A 3D printer in every home after all, right?
So Brad, why are you showing me these numbers? I don't particularly care.
That's fine, I just like to include you guys in everything, so I figured it might be cool to know some statistics on how everyone here has contributed to make this forum the greatest source of Solidoodle knowledge, and probably one of the better sources for 3D printer knowledge in general. Its all thanks to you guys to make the community what it is.
Your Turn
What would you like to see in 2013 for SoliForum, the community in general, and perhaps some ideas for Solidoodle as a company?
This is to a great 2012, and an even better 2013! *Raises glass*
Brad