Forum Usage and CivIV Pre-release

Hi Mods and Admins,

Not sure exactly where to post this. I'm relatively new to the forum, but like many I've been caught up in the Civ 4 'fever.' I thought it might be fun to somehow track the activity of the forum in advance of the Civ4 release. For example, posts/day, new threads/day, new members/week, etc. I realize this only makes work for you and really doesn't add anything directly about CIV games past, present or future, but it would probably an entertaining addition to the site... I figure maybe you guys have easy access to some of those data? just curious...

Thanks for listening!

bio_hazard said:

I thought it might be fun to somehow track the activity of the forum in advance of the Civ4 release. For example, posts/day, new threads/day, new members/week, etc.

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The forum tracks those stats automatically. All I need to do is run the reports for specific date range in the forum's control panel.

We are already seeing an increase in traffic. Currently we get around 18,000 - 19,000 unique visitors nowadays.

Our traffic rank has spiked according to Alexa:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=civfanatics.com

Cool- I was hoping it would be something easy like that! Can't wait to see it. I could probably throw the data into excel or spss or something this weekend if you need a grapher...

Yes, lets see the data!