Visualizing 2000 Visitors an hour.
I'm not a number person - I do better with pictures. During normal hours, VideoSift averages around 2,000 visitors an hour or more. I was trying to get my head around how many people this is - and I was drinking a pint of Guinness, waiting for the bus on my way home from work. (on sale this week only at the local Pig & Whistle). I came up with this picture - and pasted avatars of the top 15 members for the past week, so it doesn't look like just a pattern of shapes. This is how many people visit our little community every hour. I wouldn't say we are a huge site - but even these modest numbers boggle my mind. Multiple this image by 20 or so to get a day's worth of visitors. (large image ahead)
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alien_conceptThanks dag, my mind is now sufficiently boggled for the day
maatcwhoa! thats a lot of heads!
does that mean I was the top registered visitor last week or is the list order random?
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
The list is random. I just found that looking at that many heads I couldn't see them as individuals unless I put stuff in there to break it up.
NicoleBeeBecause you have oodles and oodles of free time to mess around with some random persons brain fart, maybe you might consider doing a 'day in the sift' sampling with user icons ranked by activity and divided by hour. See who's all up in the siftspace at what times.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
^er, that random person who had the brain fart was me. I blame the Guinness. Have you seen the "Current users" panel in Sift Talk?
NicoleBee^
I meant graphed out like this wonder up here in hour columns. 
How many of these are people with accounts vs people without accounts? Or is that easy to check.. Sorry, I find this neat.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
Oh yeah, I see what you mean- that would be cool.
NicoleBeeI might give it a go a little later on. I'll just need a boatload of caffiene to stay up to monitor the current users for 24 hours.
K0MMIECool Picture Dag. Now, I have a challenge for you. Convert 10% of those people to regular users.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
About 17% would be regular users if Google Analytics is to be believed. That's how many don't come to the site via a search engine or referral in a given month.
I'd be the first to admit that I don't know how to control this flow. at all. I've given up trying. The Sift is what it is.
K0MMIEI meant registered users.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
^Do we really want the great holi poli leaving lots of comments?
K0MMIE^ I would think YOU would want them too. The more that join, the more that will possibly either A. Go Charter or B. Click ads.
I remember your goal of quitting your day job and making sift your full time. Have you given up the dream?
blankfistYou forgot to put an image of choggie's sockpuppet on there.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
No, I definitely want regular visitors - people who visit us every day. But I don't think we would want every one of those 2000 people above commenting and exercising their vote. Call me elitist - but the Sift would be a very different place and not so special then.
>> ^K0MMIE:
^ I would think YOU would want them too. The more that join, the more that will possibly either A. Go Charter or B. Click ads.
I remember your goal of quitting your day job and making sift your full time. Have you given up the dream?
gorillaman^Put the only register link at the bottom of the posting guidelines in the FAQ.
OrnthoronHooray, another monument to my life slipping away between my fingers!
gwiz665Do you have details for when people are online? It would be awesome to see some graphs of who is online when and how long.
kulpims^I'd like to see that, too
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