site traffic

Alex, thanks for bumping this thread.  It inspired me to take another look ...

paul wheaton wrote:Despite some server trouble yesterday, we hit a new record!

   1,519,915!

Not only did we set a new record on the 15th, but it is a substantial leap forward ...



   2,018,005!



The new server handled the load easily!  So that's nice.

Congratulations on passing the 2 million mark!

Alex Howell wrote:
That being said, there is also an enormous wave of bot traffic on almost all websites coming from Lanzhou, China (the company I work for is also experiencing this). It all comes from data-centers scraping data to train AI.....

As you showed though, there is an uptick in sign-ups and posts, so the forums are definitely getting more popular?
Just wanted to mention that the China traffic is, as you suspected, potentially not as exciting as one might initially think... Although maybe we'll generate a super permie AI that will go rouge and reshape the world someday!

Or whittle the attraction of forums to those who need/desire/make time for some sort of pseudo-human interaction.
Everybody pretty much just wants instant answers, simple.  
No thinking, scrolling, sifting or reading of irrelevance/opinion sporting factual clothes.

paul wheaton wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:A new monthly record!

      11,684,533 visits!

that was november.

december:  12,609,023


january


      17,175,586 visits!

And now February


      21,291,300 visits!

I've noticed more frequent posting on utube. I wonder if that is helping to drive traffic here.
Or maybe they just didn't pop up in my algorithm before..

YouTube and Instagram, both seem to be driving traffic - Yay!

paul wheaton wrote:Alex, thanks for bumping this thread.  It inspired me to take another look ...

paul wheaton wrote:Despite some server trouble yesterday, we hit a new record!

   1,519,915!

Not only did we set a new record on the 15th, but it is a substantial leap forward ...



   2,018,005!



The new server handled the load easily!  So that's nice.

Yesterday we hit



   2,079,766!



!!

This month isn't even over yet and already we have broken the record set in february.  Of course, that was just 28 days, and today is the 28th ...  

February was 21,291,300 visitors and 40,412,595 page views.   This month is currently at 28,737,080 visitors and 62,324,265 page views.

paul wheaton wrote:This month isn't even over yet and already we have broken the record set in february.

Congratulations!

I just wish I knew how many were real humans, and which were pretend wanna-be bots!

paul wheaton wrote:February

      21,291,300 visits!

New monthly record set last month - June 2026


      33,121,435 visits!


I have no idea how many of those are bots and how many are actual people.  But I am glad to teach permaculture to bots too!

Oh, and, 71,945,051 page views for june.

For comparison, twitter gets 760 million to 870 million unique monthly visitors.   I guess this means that permies is about 4% of the size of twitter?