ZhengHe
02-16-2008, 05:54 AM
This is meant as a sounding board for any ideas, advice, or any other relevant information you might have that would help bring new members into the forums. It is often the craziest ideas that work so don't decide not to post an idea, because you think it sounds silly. Assuming some really good ideas come out of this we could expand on them, analyze the finer points, and maybe even put them into action. Who knows? Any input is very appreciated.
Here are the traffic details for our site provided by Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/bjorn3d.com
You might also be interested to find out that users of this site are from these countries in order of percentage: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, France, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Australia....
As you can there were two major increases in traffic. One in mid 2003 to late 2004 and another smaller jump about 1/4 into 2006. Since then the traffic rank has stayed more or less even. I'm going to pay most of my attention to the 2003-2004 jump, since it both more substantial and more consistent.
Now, if we use the Wayback Machine we can see some very distinctive features of the forums during this time period.
1.) Most of us weren't around here back then in 2003-2004.
2.) There was a part of the forum called the "Rumor Room" which discussed leaked specs of new hardware. An interesting idea.
3.) Rendition was still a company that people cared about :p
4.) Still plenty of killer giveaways.
5.) A really big focus on Graphics Cards Early in 2004 along with the emergence of Linux as a real subject of conversation
6.)The Emergence of XFX as a Corporate Sponsor of the Forums.
Unfortunately the records are a more then a bit incomplete, so there is only so much information that can be drawn from them.
Here is a link to the websites linking into us. It might surprise you: http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin/bjorn3d.com?q=link:bjorn3d.com/
By the way, here is the earliest archive of the Bjorn3D web page. It is set in April 1998 when I was still using American online on an old IBM. You might be interested to see how much of a change there has been after almost a decade: http://web.archive.org/web/19980421091633/http://www.bjorn3d.com/
Here are the traffic details for our site provided by Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/bjorn3d.com
You might also be interested to find out that users of this site are from these countries in order of percentage: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, France, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Australia....
As you can there were two major increases in traffic. One in mid 2003 to late 2004 and another smaller jump about 1/4 into 2006. Since then the traffic rank has stayed more or less even. I'm going to pay most of my attention to the 2003-2004 jump, since it both more substantial and more consistent.
Now, if we use the Wayback Machine we can see some very distinctive features of the forums during this time period.
1.) Most of us weren't around here back then in 2003-2004.
2.) There was a part of the forum called the "Rumor Room" which discussed leaked specs of new hardware. An interesting idea.
3.) Rendition was still a company that people cared about :p
4.) Still plenty of killer giveaways.
5.) A really big focus on Graphics Cards Early in 2004 along with the emergence of Linux as a real subject of conversation
6.)The Emergence of XFX as a Corporate Sponsor of the Forums.
Unfortunately the records are a more then a bit incomplete, so there is only so much information that can be drawn from them.
Here is a link to the websites linking into us. It might surprise you: http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin/bjorn3d.com?q=link:bjorn3d.com/
By the way, here is the earliest archive of the Bjorn3D web page. It is set in April 1998 when I was still using American online on an old IBM. You might be interested to see how much of a change there has been after almost a decade: http://web.archive.org/web/19980421091633/http://www.bjorn3d.com/