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Re: Market Share (was train windows)
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lugnet.market.theory
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Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:39:21 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Brian Lanning writes:
> In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Brian took a guess. I think he's off in one direction on one and the other
> > on the other.. He guessed 1000 fans spending 3000 a year (in the US) for a
> > total of 3 mil.
> > I think his fan estimate is low. I've heard some numbers batted around
> > which I have no backup for... but these numbers estimate that for every
> > lugnet member there are 3 posters. For every poster there are 9 lurkers
> > and for every lurker there are 9 people who either don't care to use the
> > internet or don't even know that there is a Lego community out here (this
> > came up yesterday in our Italian bull session but it's a world wide
> > phenomena, just the ratios differ)
That reminds me of the St. Ives song. :)
> I'm surprised by both 9s. I suppose it's possible. Maybe Todd could
> compare page hits vs number of posts somehow. Maybe percentage of page
> hits from IP addresses that did not (or never) post. It would be fuzzy,
> but maybe it would be a useful number somehow.
Here's a bit of numbers: According to the www.lugnet.com HTTP logs, in the
past 7 days (June 22-28 inclusive) there have been:
* 17,737 different IP addresses making HTTP requests
* 317,658 page views (i.e., non-image hits with success response #200)
* 19,923 referrals to other sites via the jump.cgi link redirector
And in that same timeframe there have been 1,990 articles posted, with the
following breakdown:
683 (34.3%) via NNTP (news)
1,171 (58.8%) via HTTP (web interface)
136 (6.8%) via SMTP (e-mail)
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1,990
There are currently 1,472 different e-mail addresses which have, at one time
or another, been signed up for e-mail delivery of messages. Actively, there
are 976 addresses signed up for e-mail delivery. I can't (easily) tell what
percentage of those are single people receiving e-mail at two or more
different addresses, but I'd guess the percentage is less than 10%.
The 'From:' line validator has records for 3,908 different 'From:' lines.
However, the percentage of duplication on this is approximately 25%. Looking
at unique real-life names, there are 3,088 different people signed up to post
messages. Occasionally people write their name differently (with or without
a middle initial, for example) so the actual number may be more like 2,800
different people.
--Todd
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