Happy New Year to the handful of members who still come to this site!
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Happy New Year!! I checked the Forum Statistics and im pretty much surprised that the most number of visitor was December 2018! It just means that people still visit this site!
Actually, no, that really can't be accurate at all. There is just no way at all that 4,683 REAL people came to this site on 12-12-2018. Perhaps some spambot went haywire or something. Or perhaps just some glitch in the message board software.
I've seen spikes like this on FaunaClassifieds as well. For instance it is now showing 11,689 visitors on 10-04-2016, which I can assure you never really happened.
Yep these weird spikes in traffic are happening to other reptile forums as well .. it's apparently a tool used by the site owners to add 'fake' traffic and members to greatly increase the value of the site .
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Well, that certainly isn't the case with my sites. I've never felt the need nor desire to try to fake statistics like that. I'm much more interested in the true picture they paint about what is going on.
Are a bunch of people trying to sell their sites? I would think the market is pretty soft for websites these days.
Well I think Facebook probably has attracted alot of people to post in Reptile Specific groups and that has affected forums like this. But, i have a soft spot for forums since these are more organized and can be reviewed/reread again unlike FB posts. I often advice newbies to always check the forums to have ideas on how to deal particular problems since they are already been handled by more senior hobbyists. I hope people will be back on forums.