Page Views and Visitor Trends: Past, Present and Future John Breslin Co-Founder boards.ie Ltd.

Past: History of boards.ie 1998 - 1 Forum - 1 Member - Began life as quake.ie WWWBoard 2000 - 20 Forums - 1,500 Members - Cloud Boards becomes boards.ie w/ DeVore, regi, Vexorg, tr1n1ty … ecksor … 2005 - 500 Forums - 50k Members - 3.5M Posts - 3TB Transfer Per Month 2006 - 575 Forums - 88k Members - 5.6M Posts - 5TB Transfer Per Month

1998 - 1 Forum - 1 Member - Began life as quake.ie WWWBoard

2000 - 20 Forums - 1,500 Members - Cloud Boards becomes boards.ie

w/ DeVore, regi, Vexorg, tr1n1ty … ecksor

…

2005 - 500 Forums - 50k Members - 3.5M Posts - 3TB Transfer Per Month

2006 - 575 Forums - 88k Members - 5.6M Posts - 5TB Transfer Per Month

Present: Where Are We? Ireland’s largest message board site Ranked #19 in Ireland by Alexa (#3 in terms of Irish sites after eircom net and Daft.ie) On our way to 100,000 registered users, but lurkers and casual browsers account for many, many more Without advertising campaigns so far Word of mouth, Google, Yahoo!, etc.

Ireland’s largest message board site

Ranked #19 in Ireland by Alexa (#3 in terms of Irish sites after eircom net and Daft.ie)

On our way to 100,000 registered users, but lurkers and casual browsers account for many, many more

Without advertising campaigns so far

Word of mouth, Google, Yahoo!, etc.

Present: Summary from Alexa

Traffic Rank from Alexa

Daily Reach from Alexa

Daily Page Views from Alexa

Present: Google Analytics Summary (2005-2006): Average of 250k page views per day 7.5M page views per month Average of 30k visits per day 925k visits per month 67% returning visitors 33% new visitors > 57% of visits from Dublin

Summary (2005-2006):

Average of 250k page views per day

7.5M page views per month

Average of 30k visits per day

925k visits per month

67% returning visitors

33% new visitors

> 57% of visits from Dublin

Page Views (2005-2006)

Visits (2005-2006)

Visits by Source

Visits by New and Returning

Visitors by City or Region

Present: Site Summary User Accounts: 87,139 Forums: 575 Threads: 476,626 Posts: 5,597,227 Adverts: 12,000 (since April 2006)

User Accounts: 87,139

Forums: 575

Threads: 476,626

Posts: 5,597,227

Adverts: 12,000 (since April 2006)

Registered Users

Forum Growth

Topic Threads

Message Posts

Future: Subsites