Oh now I am curious!!!! How much do I use it???

Who uses it most???

No, it's doesn't keep those kind of specifics. The server logs just keep track of people by IP address, and even then it just summaries the results so I can't necessarily tell you who does what every minute of the day. AQ used to keep track of every page each person visited (an enormous help for debugging stuff, I might add!), but I stopped that after about a year and was getting hundreds of thousands of page hits. Filling the database way too fast! So now it just keeps summaries of simple stuff from the official server log.

Last month, for instance, AQ recorded over 30,000 "unique visitors" that generated 2,869,410 "page hits," and using 29.30 GB in bandwidth.

I could also tell you that May 24th got more visits than any other day last month (not surprising, though, being Plant-A-Letterbox Day). Almost 5,000 people stopped by that day! (AQ gets about 4,000 visits on a normal day.)

I can also tell you something about how long people tend to visit. The overall average is 931 seconds, but here's the breakdown:

0s-30s: 32.7 %
30s-2mn: 11.2 %
2mn-5mn: 10.5 %
5mn-15mn: 14.3 %
15mn-30mn: 9.5 %
30mn-1h: 10.5 %
1h+: 10.9 %

The operating system breakdown is:
Windows: 95.5 %
Macintosh: 3.3 %
Unknown: 0.9 %
Linux: 0.1 %

And browsers break down like:
MS Internet Explorer: 83.2 %
Firefox: 10.2 %
Unknown: 2.8 %
Safari: 2.3 %
Netscape: 0.4 %
Opera: 0.4 %
Mozilla: 0.3 %

In terms of browser versions, I can get even more specific:
Msie 7.0: 42.2 %
Msie 6.0: 40.6 %
Msie 5.0: 0.2 %
Firefox 2.0.0.3: 6.6 %
Firefox 1.5.0.11: 2.5 %

Lots of interesting stuff, but it's not specific to individual people on Atlas Quest.

-- Ryan

Wow... just wow! Well i have to say i use this site more to talk to fellow LBers then my e-mail to talk to my non-Lbers :} and i am always checking out the LB news on the boards! AQ rules!
~littlmoon

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Well i have to say i use this site more to talk to fellow LBers then my e-mail to talk to my non-Lbers :}

Yeah this is the first site where I've really gotten involved in the discussion boards. Normally I don't even bother with this sort of thing... It's not that I'm antisocial, I just never find something that I need to "discuss" that much. :D But with letterboxing, there are so many things to learn about (type of inks, carving tools/materials, etiquette, etc) that the discussion boards have been a huge help to me. And now I'm just hooked because they're so fun. What a great community we have here! :)

-gollygee

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I'm one of those 1+hours people... it's 8:37 pm now, I have been logged in since about 8:30 this morning, looking at pages, but mostly talking to people on the boards...

my teen calls me "gilbert's greatest hermit"...and I am, I don't go out of the house unless i have to, or unless I'm going letterboxing. I'm not anti-social, I just choose to have most of my social interaction at AQ. Plus my career as a home-schooling mom keeps me home most days during the school year, and my secondary career as an author keeps me at my computer writing and editing a lot...

AQ is my social life and sanity outlet...a place I can talk to other adults about things that interest me, including, but not limited to, letterboxing.

night writer

could it be set up to figure out average weekly time on AQ and add that to the profiles? Although I bet some people wouldn't want others knowing how often they were on.

How about a running tally of when the most people were logged onto AQ at a given time... (ex. The most people AQ had browsing at one time was 125 at 6:30 pm on October 12, 2006.)

Or maybe even a number between members and non-members: there are 125 members and 125 non-members currently browsing AQ.

Just an idea

could it be set up to figure out average weekly time on AQ and add that to the profiles?

AQ really doesn't keep track of who is doing the logging in. All those stats were just based on IP addresses from the web server. It knows nothing about who each IP address is assigned to, nor does it access the AQ database.

How about a running tally of when the most people were logged onto AQ at a given time...
Or maybe even a number between members and non-members: there are 125 members and 125 non-members currently browsing AQ.

Again, it would need to work with the AQ database for that to work, and that's not on my to-do list. The web server has no idea who is using the site.

-- Ryan

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could it be set up to figure out average weekly time on AQ and add that to the profiles?

I don't know how accurate that would end up being. If any of you are like me and work at an office with internet access all day, you just leave AQ up and hit refresh now and again... I'm pretty much on it all the time! :D

-gollygee

Ok

I'll be 43 this December.
I carved my signature stamp, my first stamp, one week before I turned 40

I found my first box four days later

I'm married, no kids, my husband thinks letterboxing is boring

I usually hike alone. If "Pete" is with me. He waits in the car. Those are short walks though. Usually a mile or less. With a cell phone handy

I discovered how much fun letterboxing with a group can be when I started going to gathers

S~N~K