A Few Random YWS Stats

- Every day, YWS uses a little over 11.5 gigabytes of bandwidth on average. In the past 30 days, YWS has gone through 345.4 gigabytes. This number has increased by 82% since July 2014, when it was 190.5 gigabytes. The bulk of the bandwidth, 55%, are transfers to and from the database.

- Every hour, there's an average of 293,938 queries against the database. That's 82 every second.

- YWS either has 21,000 pageviews a day on average, or 125,000. The 21,000 is a count of total page refreshes, but undercounts the true number because it doesn't take into account page refreshes using ajax. The 125,000 does include ajax refreshes, and counts them using the same methodology used by Facebook et. al. Still, I think it overcounts. The true number is somewhere in between, and is probably unknowable.

- YWSers spent a total of 823,555 hours and 15 minutes on YWS over the past 30 days.

- Every day, at least 3 people get to YWS by first typing www.youngwriterssociety.com into Google.

Cool!

I would just like to point out that this means we spent more than 90 years on YWS in the past thirty days.

i always google yws.

I think that we all spend a lot of time on here!Thanks for these random stats,they are so cool!

BlueAfrica wrote:I would just like to point out that this means we spent more than 90 years on YWS in the past thirty days.

If it's been 90 years collectively over the course of one month... How long has it been (collectively) since YWS's founding?

I have YWS bookmarked. I also have the Chatroom Bookmarked.

Haha! I think I'm one of those who type the url to get to the site.

...I type the letter Y into my address bar. Sometimes other letters work too (like L for the Lounge).

niteowl wrote:...I type the letter Y into my address bar. Sometimes other letters work too (like L for the Lounge).

I'm at the stage where I can do that no matter what device of mine I'm using... or if I'm on my desktop, YWS is the first 'most visited page' on the Chrome homepage. The other sites jump about a little in order, but YWS never budges.

Here's the total stats on how people get to YWS:

43% get here directly by typing the address into the url bar / bookmarked
41.5% get here via a search engine
14% get here through a link on another site (usually writerfeedpad)
1.5% get here via a social network, such as Facebook or Twitter

Top search keywords by clicks:
1. young writers society
2. yws
3. how did the constitution guard against tyranny
4. young writers
5. how does the constitution guard against tyranny
6. strengths of the constitution
7. youngwriterssociety
8. young writer society
9. How did the consitution guard against tyranny?
10. how did the constitution guard against tyranny essay

Top referring sites:
1. *.writerfeedpad.com
2. education-portal.com
3. facebook
4. gmail
5. outlook
6. nanowrimo.org
7. yahoo mail
8. youngwriterssociety.co.uk (and here I thought no one knew about that)
9. Facebook mobile
10. reidkemper.com

These are interesting. What about the people who have it bookmarked and get to it that way? That's what I do.

I'm curious: why is constitution and tyranny a top keyword for YWS?

Well... this is a top hit for google... How does the Constitution guard against Tyranny?

Hopefully, people aren't copying that essay for their homework. Plagiarism sucks. >.>

Judging by the search results (I checked, too), it looks like that's actually a fairly common DBQ (data-based question). DBQs are often taught in Advanced Placement history courses because (they're on the test) they teach students how to properly use and reference sources to support a point.

So I wouldn't be surprised if people were Googling it to figure out the stance that someone else took for the essay. That's something that some of the kids in my AP history courses did with take-home essays, so that we knew we actually had a way of supporting our arguments.