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Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?

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Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?
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RE: Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?
September 8, 2017 at 12:17 pm
(September 8, 2017 at 11:27 am)Tiberius Wrote: Also worth mentioning that a return rate of ~66% is really really good for a website.

And, it looks like the audience is fairly distributed across the World, a factor of 2 at most between max and min sessions.
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RE: Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?
September 8, 2017 at 12:22 pm
(September 8, 2017 at 11:27 am)Tiberius Wrote: Also worth mentioning that a return rate of ~66% is really really good for a website.

My completely ex culo guess is that forums in general have higher return rates than the average site, but yeah, 66% is really, really good.
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RE: Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?
September 8, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Here's some more cool information:

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/atheistforums.org

Don't know if it is accurate or not.
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RE: Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?
September 8, 2017 at 1:44 pm (This post was last modified: September 8, 2017 at 1:51 pm by Ravenshire.)
(September 8, 2017 at 11:24 am)Tiberius Wrote: So very quickly I did a scan of our logs from yesterday.

If you ignore bots (i.e. Google) then there was at least one request for 20,397 seconds out of a possible 86,400. So the site is being "used" about 24% of the time. However that number is probably completely inaccurate, because it only considers the time in which a user loads a page as visiting, when realistically people spend anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes reading posts.

BTW, if you include bot traffic, there is at least one request for 48,501 seconds of the day (we get a lot of bot traffic, and that's even after I blocked Yandex).

Google Analytics is perhaps a slightly better source of information on this, but alas it only breaks down visits by hour:


However it does also measure session duration, and the average session duration is almost 16 minutes (that's HUGE). If the average session length is 947 seconds according to Google, and there were 803 sessions in total, that means users spent a collective 760,441 seconds on the site yesterday, which is almost 9 days. It's probably reasonable to say that there is always at least one user browsing the site at all times.


So, what you're saying is...

The sun never sets on the AF Empire!

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September 8, 2017 at 1:48 pm
The real question is:

Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users meaning ?
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September 8, 2017 at 2:03 pm
(September 8, 2017 at 2:08 am)Jehanne Wrote: This is a question that only the SysAdmins can probably answer, but it appears that someone is always online 7x24!  Whew!!!

I don't log off.
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RE: Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?
September 8, 2017 at 2:30 pm
(September 8, 2017 at 12:54 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Here's some more cool information:

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/atheistforums.org

Don't know if it is accurate or not.

I see visits spike right after every time we mention eating delicious baptized Christian babies . . .
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RE: Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?
September 8, 2017 at 2:40 pm
there's one now . . . .
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