Forum Traffic

[Space Wolf]

Currently Active UsersCurrently Active Users

There are currently 174 users online. 2 members and 172 guests

Most users ever online was 215, Today at 05:15 AM.

If 228 was an all time record, and now there are 174 users online, I think that either a link to this forum popped up in some busy blog, or some botnet has found this forum.

[Eggman]

If 228 was an all time record, and now there are 174 users online, I think that either a link to this forum popped up in some busy blog, or some botnet has found this forum.

Search engines from around the world constantly browse this and every other publicly available website.

MirageForum.com: Who's Online

A link to this can be found at the bottom of the forum Home Page.

[MetroMPG]

I did a bit of digging, and it seems the resetting "most users ever online" tally is a bug in the software that was introduced after an update. It used to stay put unless manually reset by an admin.

If I recall, the actual record was much higher like 500? 700?

[MetroMPG]

Here's the stat I remember...

Most users ever online was 589, 07-10-2015 at 01:32 AM.

As Space Wolf says, it was probably the result of someone linking to the site from a busy blog or reddit thread.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170408...orum.com/forum

[Eggman]

Most users ever online was 750, Today at 06:47 AM.

Wow it just keeps getting better.

[MetroMPG]

Yup. Yesterday was our 2nd busiest day in a couple of months at least.

Google recently changed the way it ranks sites for search performance, so it could be that.

It could be Mitsu is offering bigger rebates on the cars - I haven't checked. But that drives people to research the car and read the forum.

[MetroMPG]

I checked - no unusually good rebates going on in the U.S. $500 for the hatch, $750 for the G4.

Top popular page in the past 24h was the forum search page.

[Eggman]

Most users ever online was 760, Yesterday at 01:18 PM.

Looks like our counter didn't reset from yesterday.

[MetroMPG]

It appears to be resetting daily again.

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FYI: yesterday was the forum's busiest day (hits/visitors) since the Great Discounted Mirage Traffic Spike of early 2016. Over 3 years ago.

There doesn't seem to be any specific reason (no big referring site) - it's just general traffic, most of which is people searching for Mirage info and apparently finding it here.

[Eggman]

Most users ever online was 1,002, Today at 07:16 AM.

This morning's update.