TMF traffic report for August - 126K unique visitors

[TMF Jeff]

Hi everyone,

I've been sharing this information with our patreons for a while now, but frankly there are only a handful of those and I think everyone should know how many of us there are.



As you can see in the attached image, Google tracks how many people visited us in two ways - "Total Sessions" and "Users."

Total Sessions is the number of times anyone visited the forum for any reason. That number is, as you see, over a quarter of a million.

But Users is, to me, the interesting number because those are unique visitors - repeat visits are not counted by google for that. What it means is that over 125 thousand individuals worldwide visited the Tickling Media Forum last month.

What I take from this is that we have a LOT of people who check in once or twice a month, and then a smaller group of active community members who check in repeatedly throughout the day and month.

Every time I see that number of Users, I'm shocked all over again - just imagine how many people there are who are into tickling. And presumably that's mostly just English speakers, since that's the language the forum is in. The actual global size of our community is probably 5-10 times that number.

Just felt like sharing some interesting and fun news about us
Jeff

P.S. - Session Duration is how long the average person stays on the forum. It's usually not such an even number, so it looks like seven seconds on this particular report, but that's actually seven MINUTES. When people visit - they tend to stay.

Here's June for comparison -

 

[alwayslaughing]

Very interesting - thanks for sharing. The bounce rate is pretty low too (which I'd expect in a place like this), so it's good to know people seem to generally be finding what they are looking for as well. You can break down geo-location and language too if you're using GA, FYI.

 

[Tenebrae]

Fascinating

I tend to think that the relatively long stay accounts for the amount of reading and browsing that occurs. This forum is like 95% written content spread across many different boards.

 

[duderino84]

I like to think it's the residual crowd that saw Tickled that heard it's being turned into a play trying to figure out wtf it is we're all exactly about.

 

[TMF Jeff]

I like to think it's the residual crowd that saw Tickled that heard it's being turned into a play trying to figure out wtf it is we're all exactly about.

A musical, presumably

 

[tklee88]

I love studying analytics like this. Very cool, thank you for sharing with us!

 

[Tenebrae]

A musical, presumably

LOL

In all seriousness, I do not think so many people would come regularly just for that reason alone. I think a lot of us in the community tend to exaggerate the movie's importance, maybe? I mean, it's hardly Citizen Kane, I do not think so many people saw it and I doubt many are still talking about it and all. I could be wrong of course, but this does not really strike me as a very likely explanation

 

[duderino84]

A musical, presumably

It sounded bothersome by film on it's own...

 

[pole position]

Nice one Jeff.

Have you ever thought of generating a report that looks at who logged in and:

% ler, lee or both
Then % m or f of each category

I know there’s a group of dudes that would be posing as women but I have to hope it’s a rounding error.

 

[TMF Jeff]

Nice one Jeff.

Have you ever thought of generating a report that looks at who logged in and:

% ler, lee or both
Then % m or f of each category

I know there’s a group of dudes that would be posing as women but I have to hope it’s a rounding error.

We don't really have the resources to do that. The report we generate is a free service by google that just tracks our general traffic.

To do what you're suggesting, we'd have to hire a programmer to write something specifically to search our database.

It's the type of thing I had in mind when I opened a Patreon account for the forum, creating some available finances for the forum to do fun things. But unfortunately only a very small number of members (currently 38) have supported us.

 

[AquaFeline]

Have you thought about offering a more anonymous donation method?

 

[TMF Jeff]

Have you thought about offering a more anonymous donation method?

I'd certainly consider it if you know of one.

 

[AquaFeline]

I'd certainly consider it if you know of one.

Maybe bitcoin? I saw a bitcoin ATM somewhere. Maybe a mailing address?

 

[tklfeather10]

interesting figures i'am surprised at the amount of traffic, but there again there is a lot of information and a wide variation of content something for everyone even the non tickling folk.