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[Jogger]

Whilst doing some housekeeping, I just saw that on Monday at 2:10pm we set a record for the max number of people reading the messageboards within a one hour window - 146.

I think the previous record was around 123 set the monday after the city to surf.

Don't know who the people were or what they were doing.

We used to have a count of messages posted to the boards within a 24 hour window, but we don't anymore (it was a clunky manual method). We stopped it when we were getting over 120 posts within a day. We must be way over that now.

[Stu Mac]

Well it is an excellent web site, so what would you expect!!!

Noting the time of your post, 3.21am, you must be getting up very early for that morning run????

Well done Kevin, the site is an example of the great work that yourself and your helpers provide.

  B)

[Mister G]

Kevin does most of his best work after the witching hour. In fact it is quite unusual to receive an email from him before midnight!  :)

[Jogger]

I think the previous record was approx 2pm also - clearly all those office workers slacking off.

As for the time of my posts - well, I have a job and a partial life outside of Coolrunning - its the best time to put in the serious work. Lucky I don't need a lot of sleep. Am struggling a bit now that I am doing more training. Often fall asleep (cat-nap) between 10pm-midnight and then feel refreshed.

[pbig]

Porbably related to the "event"full weekend - SMH, Run to the G, Canberra Half, Healesville Mountain Run, ....

[wombatface]

"Noting the time of your post, 3.21am,"

I'm showing 18:21 - so is this site coming from the states?

There was another post somewhere (can't remember, my wombat brain is confused) speculating about the number of users - 3000 +registered, 200 or so regular posters etc...

I wonder if there will come a time when there are 'too many' users/posters?  Will there be so many new topics that regulars sit back and become 'lurkers' for fear of adding to the information overload?

[pbig]

wombatface, check the Time Adjustment in your coolrunning profile, I think it should be -6 hours. The post does show as 3:21 from my PC.

[Jogger]

The time of 03:21 was indeed correct. I often go to bed late   :)  

The site is hosted in the States, Houston, Texas.

The time settings can be adjusted so that they reflect YOUR timezone - check here for more info

[Spareribs]

I don't understand the fuss at all.  The time posted for messages looks perfectly normal to me!  Spareribs

[Jogger]

yesterday at 1:58pm we set another new record - 195 people reading at the same time - can you imagine that!

We had a previous record of 184 or 185 set the monday after the Sydney Marathon last september, but we often have waaay in excess of 100 during office-hours !

Monday is a good day for setting records, I've noticed.

[miners]

Nice to know that while I contributed a big fat zero to the productivity of my office yesterday after lunch, I at least managed to contribute to something!

yay to us siesta-yearning layabouts

[Miss B]

hmmm, maybe thats why I never seem to have got enough work done!  Perhaps spending all afternoon reading posts is a little excessive...Ah well, there are worse addictions.

[superflake]

I'm guessing it will be broken April 11th when we all post our Canberra Marathon war stories.  B)

[2Hefty]

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  Monday is a good day for setting records, I've noticed.

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I knew I should have gone for a run yesterday. On the topic, I noticed that there are almost 5000 registered usernames- should we all put in 0.5c each and buy a CR cap for number 5000? (Also, $200 each will get a cool million for Uncle Dave or ourimbar! ).

Kevin, I often go back to the messagebords to see how many users are logged in. It would be nice to have this info on the Active topics page if you have a spare 1/2 hour at 3AM.

minersun, the Australian Government has been doing big fat zero for the last 8 years and it doesn't worry them, so I wouldn't get too upset.

[miss_skarmel]

I'm so glad my numb bottom contributed to something yesterday.

It was the start of my holidays and a great day for sitting on the 'net and chillin'.

Some forums have the records info noted on the front page before you enter eg:
Most users ever online was 72 on Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:23 pm
(side note : Miss Skarmel was also part of this record *swish*  -  how sad am I!)

It'd be cool if CR had that, but I guess it's a different setup so not possible (but heck what do I know!)

[Jogger]

Miss Skarmel, its not on the entry page, its half way down here:
http://www.coolrunni...bb.cgi?ubb=pntf

sorry for the extra work.

[charlieboy]

Kevin
I sometimes find that if I forget to log out and just kill my internet explorer, when I come back in next time I am still logged in. Could this be an influence on the numbers if there are lots of users who are just continually logged in?

[Jogger]

you logged in status doesn't affect the number of users "currently on the boards".

I think it measures how many people are clicking from page to page in a shirt window (a minute or 2), I think.

So if you walk away and leave your pc eventually it won't count towards that number.

I never log out at home or work but that relates to the cookie on your pc, and I know that's not counted.

[2Hefty]

155 today at 1:20PM. Almost there for another record.

[miners]

... and I'm guessing that Friday afternoon last week was one of the lowest?  Seems like everyone in CR land had headed to Canberra!

[CoolRunning Admin]

Our new visitor record is 205, set on 19 May, 2005 15:31.

[Stu Mac]

The growth is amazing!!!

[miners]

I was there!  Great to see the popularity sky-rocketing KT

[CoolRunning Admin]

This just in:
Our visitor record is 209, set on 23 May, 2005 13:11
Our visitor record is 212, set on 23 May, 2005 13:23

[Obi-Wan]

Kev, soon you may need to update this on a weekly basis.

[Hamburglar]

Hey Kevin, have we broken the record since the above post?

Don't know if you have access to the information, but I would love to know how many hits the website gets each day, how many of those are members, how many posts per day etc.

[TRAVY]

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Originally posted by Stu Mac:
Well it is an excellent web site, so what would you expect!!! B)  

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I hae to agree !

[Jogger]

Chanrita,

We haven't broken it since.
You can check the current record here (but it seems to only be reporting 193 now). We get a couple hundred or mor epostings per day. In general within an hour we have 50 or more people at any time from 7am to almost midnight. During a weekday workhours we generally have in excess of 100 at any time and often up to 170.

In general we get 2.1 to 2.5 million pageviews per month (that's about 8 million hits to separate files) and we use about 70Gb bandwidth per month. That's quite a lot.
Click here to look at some graphs

[Vurt]

jebus that is a good amount of traffic and a lot of bandwidth.

CR is a fantastic community  :)

[Jogger]

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a lot of bandwidth

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The topmost webcentral hosting plan (a leading provider in AUS) is for 5Gb per month (we have 14 times that much traffic) and they charge $329 per month. hmmm....

[Vurt]

Yeah hosting in australia is insanely expensive compared to the US as i am sure you know already considering that CR is hosted in the states. My personal hosting costs me about $10per month for 30GB which i never get near using.

I assume that you are on a dedicated server with that sort of traffic ?

[Jogger]

We have been hosted in the USA since 2004. Its still a shared (but well-specced) server, although we may have to move soon. Howwver we don't share with many others.

[CB Mac]

And according to alexa.com, this site is ranked 85,290th in terms of internet traffic. Not sure how accurate that is but it just shows how much data is transferred across the internet every day.

[Jogger]

The net's geek-o-nauts don't think Alexa is an accurate measure of data, but I have found that it is a good measure of relativity.

[Bristol City FC]

Posted By Kevin:  

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During a weekday workhours we generally have in excess of 100 at any time and often up to 170.
  

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Kev, I think that tells you what CR's are doing when they should be working,....me included!   :D

[superflake]

Currently 159. We just need a few more people to get bored at work and log on.  :)

[Jogger]

Our visitor record is 203, set on 27 March, 2006 13:20

[Stu Mac]

Sounds like Mondayitis.....

[Jogger]

Our visitor record is 237, set on 22 May, 2006 14:01

[Jogger]

Most users ever online was 284 on Today, 02:13 PM

[Angus]

That's a big increase on the previous record! And certainly quite a few more than the record of April last year...a measly 195 hehe
Why does it ALWAYS seem to be at around 2pm that record numbers of CRs are online?!

[clairie]

I was there!!!!

I think everyone was logged on trying to work out their pretty pictures all day! Certainly seemed to have seen them blossom on everyone's profile.

[Jogger]

Most users ever online was 336 on Jun 19 2006, 01:51 PM

Also our new software can give us all sorts of stats eg number of posts per day (for 2006):

June 19th   220
June 18th   186
June 17th   165
June 16th   390
June 15th   399
June 14th   218
June 13th   220
June 12th   207
June 11th   154
June 10th   148
June 9th   331
June 8th   358
June 7th   253
June 6th   298
June 5th   277
June 4th   156
June 3rd   125
June 2nd   232
June 1st   300
May 31st   251
May 30th   288
May 29th   255
May 28th   131
May 27th   120
May 26th   190
May 25th   209
May 24th   205
May 23rd   212
May 22nd   298
May 21st   190
May 20th   110
May 19th   272
May 18th   249
May 17th   217
May 16th   199
May 15th   217
May 14th   136
May 13th   129
May 12th   212
May 11th   186
May 10th   242
May 9th   201
May 8th   211
May 7th   149
May 6th   156
May 5th   267
May 4th   212
May 3rd   185
May 2nd   230
May 1st   278
April 30th   220
April 29th   162
April 28th   235
April 27th   218
April 26th   200
April 25th   175
April 24th   214
April 23rd   149
April 22nd   99
April 21st   258
April 20th   328
April 19th   341
April 18th   212
April 17th   148
April 16th   108
April 15th   101
April 14th   117
April 13th   165
April 12th   226
April 11th   247
April 10th   231
April 9th   137
April 8th   77
April 7th   232
April 6th   326
April 5th   225
April 4th   266
April 3rd   236
April 2nd   179
April 1st   126
March 31st   243
March 30th   222
March 29th   259
March 28th   247
March 27th   281
March 26th   199
March 25th   149
March 24th   235
March 23rd   282
March 22nd   282

[undercover brother]

i'm sure there has been a thread on this before but (at least in the last few weeks) there seems to be a steady rise in numbers over the working week then a drop saturday/sunday.
i'm gunna tell all your bosses!
thanks for the figures kevin.

[alchemy]

Can I put a request in for a BOSS key .

Great to see the stats going up and up!!

[AzzaTas]

Hey All, unsure if this has been attempted yet, but we all should set a set date and time and everyone try to log on during that time period to set a new record!!

what does everyone think?

thanks Azzatas

[Jogger]

Most users ever online was 1,055 on Jul 31 2006, 08:28 AM (!)

[Alycat]

KevinTiller, on Aug 16 2006, 03:17 PM, said:

Most users ever online was 1,055 on Jul 31 2006, 08:28 AM (!)

I received an error message, yesterday I think, that there were too many users logged on to the database.

[Jogger]

Alycat, on Aug 17 2006, 01:31 PM, said:

I received an error message, yesterday I think, that there were too many users logged on to the database.

yes a few people did. we are trying to work out how to increase the max number of simultaneous users. should be possible.

[Bristol City FC]

I had that same error message too. I never log out, does that have any effect on the server, or 'number online" even when I'm not?