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6 Responses to “Boards.ie – Busiest site in Ireland”
Normally these boards count there users over the last hour, half-an-hour, or more usually 15 minutes. It’s difficult to measure users at a discrete point in time. Open apache requests would underestimate it. You could look back and infer that a user was there before and after the event (by IP, cookie or session string).
Alot of the time these boards have “no. of users active in the last x minutes”. The x is not available in this case.
That’s very impressive. I was guessing that it was at least 15 mins.
There are stats such as these here. Of course they may favour a US traffic in some way.
We have a site that averages well over 5,000 ip’s an hour. Alot of them are bots though and while it’s hosted in Ireland it could hardly be considered Irish.
What ever way you look at it 1212 users over 5 mins is a damn high number and reaffirms the fact that it is one of the busiest sites in Ireland. Well done to the boards.ie team.
I know this could be seen as self promotion, but we’ve had 5 thousand odd users online at once .. Server melted shortly afterwards. http://www.cruiseirl.com
Some were bots but a majority were members..
Sometimes servers have their busiest period after email promotions/competitions/giveaways. I’m only guessing but the Alexa rank for cruisirl could mean that this was the case.
5 thousand odd users online at once. They’re probably not all “odd”. 🙂
But how many of those “guests” were bots?
I know this could be seen as self promotion, but we’ve had 5 thousand odd users online at once .. Server melted shortly afterwards.
http://www.cruiseirl.com
Some were bots but a majority were members..
Foot.ie’s had close to 700, but that was a completely bogus figure. Only the member numbers can be trusted.
Normally these boards count there users over the last hour, half-an-hour, or more usually 15 minutes. It’s difficult to measure users at a discrete point in time. Open apache requests would underestimate it. You could look back and infer that a user was there before and after the event (by IP, cookie or session string).
Alot of the time these boards have “no. of users active in the last x minutes”. The x is not available in this case.
x=5
That’s very impressive. I was guessing that it was at least 15 mins.
There are stats such as these here. Of course they may favour a US traffic in some way.
We have a site that averages well over 5,000 ip’s an hour. Alot of them are bots though and while it’s hosted in Ireland it could hardly be considered Irish.
What ever way you look at it 1212 users over 5 mins is a damn high number and reaffirms the fact that it is one of the busiest sites in Ireland. Well done to the boards.ie team.
Sometimes servers have their busiest period after email promotions/competitions/giveaways. I’m only guessing but the Alexa rank for cruisirl could mean that this was the case.