UEGA website stats.

Titan · 18 May 2012, 11:43 am

Hey guys,

Just though id let you know on our current stats of the website, so you can see the growth:

February hits - 20,667
March hits - 32,375
April hits - 20,630
May hits - 19,127 (And counting).

Unique visitors to our website since February - 1,487

Busiest days on the forums - Sundays.

We have had so far visitors from 25 countries from around the world...

So here you have it, a slow but steady progress so far

Barnz · 31 Oct 2012, 9:42 pm

Any stat updates?

Midget · 01 Nov 2012, 8:26 am

Barnz wrote:Any stat updates?

x2

Shoe · 01 Nov 2012, 2:47 pm

I wonder how much of that is spam? Hell, I'd even donate if it meant getting a more secure website.

Midget · 02 Nov 2012, 11:41 am

Shoe wrote:I wonder how much of that is spam? Hell, I'd even donate if it meant getting a more secure website.

Just thought of that as well.

Must be like;
Unique Visits/month: 210
Non-bot Unique Visits/month: 30

Barnz · 02 Nov 2012, 5:00 pm

Midget wrote:
Shoe wrote:I wonder how much of that is spam? Hell, I'd even donate if it meant getting a more secure website.
Just thought of that as well.

Must be like;
Unique Visits/month: 210
Non-bot Unique Visits/month: 30

You hit the nail on the head, whats this unique stuff? Should be " genuine" visits.

Scarecrow · 26 May 2013, 4:02 pm

I've noticed a lot of members on here who have never posted. Surely that can't be very secure, having lurkers trawling the forums. Have those accounts been created by an automated system?

Scarecrow · 26 May 2013, 4:04 pm

Crane wrote:I've noticed a lot of members on here who have never posted. Surely that can't be very secure, having lurkers trawling the forums. Have those accounts been created by an automated system?

562 'members' out of 718 have 0 posts. That's over 78% (cue nerd joke).

mpi · 26 May 2013, 5:28 pm

Urbex forums have always got a lot of lurkers... I'd love to see some new stats though!

Aydun · 26 May 2013, 9:00 pm

Crane wrote:
Crane wrote:I've noticed a lot of members on here who have never posted. Surely that can't be very secure, having lurkers trawling the forums. Have those accounts been created by an automated system?
562 'members' out of 718 have 0 posts. That's over 78% (cue nerd joke).

*over 9000.
Sorry.

But there are tonnes of spambots here still. Click on practically any member with 0 posts and their website/interest are spam related.

e.g. http://www.uega.net/forums/memberlist.p ... file&u=625
http://www.uega.net/forums/memberlist.p ... file&u=587

And I;m pretty sure this whole list is bots
http://www.uega.net/forums/memberlist.p ... a&start=50

Dynamite · 26 May 2013, 9:08 pm

I reckon most of 'em are cc members spying on us

Poker · 27 May 2013, 3:47 am

I'm a bot stealing your internets.

Seriously though, it is wise to get rid of lurkers & bots, especially when discussing trivial crimes like recreational trespassing.
Could just send out an alert asking all members to post a message in a given time (a week or 3) & those people who do not respond should have their accounts frozen, at least until they do.
That way you know who is who. Just sayin'.

Midget · 27 May 2013, 10:01 pm

Poker wrote:I'm a bot stealing your internets.
Seriously though, it is wise to get rid of lurkers & bots, especially when discussing trivial crimes like recreational trespassing.
Could just send out an alert asking all members to post a message in a given time (a week or 3) & those people who do not respond should have their accounts frozen, at least until they do.
That way you know who is who. Just sayin'.

+1

Titan · 27 May 2013, 10:11 pm

What we can do is open a new section of the forum where people must post a certain amount. (post count) before they can go through to the rest of the forum....

Thoughts.

Scarecrow · 27 May 2013, 10:15 pm

Like a n00bz section, ha. Sounds good.

Midget · 27 May 2013, 10:52 pm

Just gotta make sure they're informative posts, not like some of my spam posts.

Haha.

Dynamite · 28 May 2013, 3:19 am

Actually Titan that would work perfectly.. What if new members HAD to post an introduction before they could even view the rest of the forums? maybe if all the other forum links were visible but locked out as such? That way you've caught the bots before they post any of their crap elsewhere, Without deterring anyone who is genuinely interested.
I'm assuming of course the forum software is capable of this or some similar action though.

Midget · 28 May 2013, 10:16 am

Do we have email confirmations? Also I remember when I signed up, I had to wait for an admin to approve. That might not be a bad idea to put that system back in place. Require them to write a short little message or something.

Titan · 30 May 2013, 9:02 am

The admin approval is now lifted and is now just set back to email confirmation. Admit bit was just a matter of going into admin area and manualy approving the memberships. No idea how we can make them write notes etc.

But a noob area is very possible to do

dougo · 30 May 2013, 9:16 am

The C/C Forums (also phpBB) now has a question that you need to answer when setting up an account.

It stops the spambots and crap from registering.

You could have something like "complete this sentence - urban ----------

Titan · 30 May 2013, 9:45 am

dougo: we have two questions now set in place

the buggers still get through sometimes though.

I may try changing questions once every month or so to help with the process ?

Barnz · 30 May 2013, 10:00 am

I just set up an account for the gf, and i got the questions wrong first time. Good luck autobots

Titan · 30 May 2013, 10:20 am

Barnz thanks for reporting back that its working

dougo · 30 May 2013, 10:48 am

Yeah, I'm not sure how they did it. It went from bots/spammers every day to zilch.

Barnz · 30 May 2013, 2:04 pm

Still waiting on conf email.