YWS was started exactly at 7:22 pm EST on November 14th, 2004, making it now only one week old. However, since then it has grown very fast, and exceeded all my hopes for it. Indeed, a week ago I was worried that it would grow too slowly and eventually just die off. But, now my worry is that it is growing too fast, but that's a concern I can live with.
Anyways, thought you all might be interested in some statistics...
Size of database: 1.48 MB
Number of Posts: 619
Number of Topics: 80
Number of Users: 32
Posts per day: 88.45 (and climbing rapidly)
Topics per day: 11.43
Users per day: 4.57
Amount of data transfer since opening: 406 MB
Estimated data transfer over a four week period: 4GB
Most Popular Browser: 88.37% use MSIE 6.0
Referring websites:
Unknown 74.68%
http://elfstrider82.proboards30.com/index.cgi 13.78%
http://forums.about.com/n/mb/message.asp 4.51%
http://teenink.com/talk/showthread.php 2.14%
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/cgi-bin/guestbks.pl 2.05%
http://flyawaynetwork.com/topic.asp 1.11%
http://yws.nathancaldwell.net/forum/memberlist.php 0.87%
http://www.flyawaynetwork.com/topic.asp 0.86%
As you can see, our members are very active and we are growing fairly rapidly, especially for a brand new website. To keep this up, and to keep the sense of community strong, new features will be added. Contests will start up as soon as we have 30 active members (defined as those members who have made at least five posts), and usergroups will be formed as people request them. Additionally, new aspects of the website will be added with links to magazines that publish young authors as well as a chat room. However, I am also going to be very careful in doing this as the last thing I want is for this site to go to the dogs.
Anyways, hope you all enjoy the stats!
Gender:
Points: 11417
Reviews: 425