# Can we get a graph that shows number of new users per day? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 20, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872 "2014-05-20T22:37:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/1 "2014-05-20T22:37:02Z")
Out of curiosity, I’d like to see whether the popularity of the SDMB is inclining or declining. So if the graph was decreasing, it would mean that the number of new users per day is getting less and less which would mean that the popularity is declining. Do you administrators have a graph for that that we can see out of curiosity? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/2 "2014-05-20T22:39:24Z")
So you define popularity as the number of new users per time, not the number of posts or threads? Why? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/3 "2014-05-20T23:27:06Z")
You can also argue that page views are a better measure of popularity, and you can see data on that [here](http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/straightdope.com) or [here](http://straightdope.com.hypestat.com/). And now I’m curious why the most common keyword search that sent traffic to the site is “hear hear”. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/4 "2014-05-20T23:27:38Z")
May I please piggy-back onto your thread to ask about something I wondered about in the “[Chrome Flagged Us: Oh Noes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=723313)” thread. During the period(s) when the Chrome/Google ‘red page’ warning was in place, what effect was there on Dope traffic? (hits, posts, etc.) Thanks! ETA: Looks like **TroutMan** may have already answered my question while I was posting it! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/5 "2014-05-20T23:41:11Z")
Here is some data on Straightdope website usage: [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/straightdope.com](http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/6 "2014-05-20T23:49:25Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Here is some data on Straightdope website usage: > [Amazon Alexa](http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/straightdope.com) And, if you believe the site, [here](http://straightdope.com.hypestat.com/) is similar (but more extensive) data about The Dope on the site that **TroutMan** just turned me/us on to. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/7 "2014-05-21T21:07:07Z")
Hey, according to the above cite SD is valued at $1,460,155.80. (I love $0.80.) Wanna pass the hat, and show the gang how to really run this place? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/8 "2014-05-21T21:16:20Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > And, if you believe the site, [here](http://straightdope.com.hypestat.com/) is similar (but more extensive) data about The Dope on the site that **TroutMan** just turned me/us on to. And according to that source, SDMB earns $700 per day from ads. Cecil won’t get rich from that, but no wonder they don’t want to turn them off. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/9 "2014-05-22T02:35:22Z")
That’s interesting. I wonder how they calculate that? It’s hard to believe that Dopers are clicking on that many ads. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/10 "2014-05-22T14:00:10Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > That’s interesting. I wonder how they calculate that? It’s hard to believe that Dopers are clicking on that many ads. Yea, you would like to think they are smarter than that. I guess “it’s taking longer than we thought” and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/11 "2014-05-22T14:15:34Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > That’s interesting. I wonder how they calculate that? It’s hard to believe that Dopers are clicking on that many ads. You realize that 84.3% of all statistics are wrong? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/12 "2014-05-22T14:38:49Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > And according to that source, SDMB earns $700 per day from ads. Cecil won’t get rich from that, but no wonder they don’t want to turn them off. Note that the figure of $700 daily is what the board “should earn” from the ads. I’d lay odds that the real figure is considerably less given the savvy of most Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/13 "2014-05-23T02:22:12Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > You realize that 84.3% of all statistics are wrong? That’s why I want to know how it’s calculated. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/14 "2014-05-23T02:48:45Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > And, if you believe the site, [here](http://straightdope.com.hypestat.com/) is similar (but more extensive) data about The Dope on the site that **TroutMan** just turned me/us on to. > [@Deeg](#): > > That’s interesting. I wonder how they calculate that? It’s hard to believe that Dopers are clicking on that many ads. One of the charts in that link shows that the Dope has a staggering one million unique visitors a month. I need to watch what I say! Assuming that number is within an order of magnitude of correct, that’s a lot of eyeballs. And you have to assume that of approximately one million visitors, approximately one million are not members since the number of members is way, way smaller than rounding error. If one in 1000 unique visitors clicks on an ad, not a totally unreasonable assumption, getting $700 from those ads is also not unreasonable. So Dopers themselves are completely irrelevant to ad clicks. We’re just live bait for the visitors. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-graph-that-shows-number-of-new-users-per-day/688872/15 "2014-05-23T04:14:07Z")
I dunno, getting 70 cents per click (or even per UU) seems like an awful lot.