# Has traffic to this website decreased a lot? Seems to be a lot less activity on forums. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 26, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-traffic-to-this-website-decreased-a-lot-seems-to-be-a-lot-less-activity-on-forums/831553 "2019-03-26T11:22:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 64
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-traffic-to-this-website-decreased-a-lot-seems-to-be-a-lot-less-activity-on-forums/831553/64 "2019-04-11T18:29:52Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > The OP and the replies have generally dealt with the SDMB’s decline in traffic “over the years”. That’s certainly true, for all the reasons cited and perhaps others. But the question I’ve had, and have been checking ATMB for the past couple weeks to look for threads about, is whether it has had a noticeable falloff just in the past couple months, a steeper drop than what had been the ongoing attrition. It sure seems like it to me. I was curious about whether your perception matched some data points, so I looked up my usual data set for that type of perception. I went to the [Wayback Machine](https://archive.org/web/web.php), put in dates for the last several months and looked at the active member count on that date. Here are some data points of dates and active member counts. 11/18/18. . . . . .3423 12/19/18. . . . . .3429 01/23/19 . . . . . 3426 02/19/19 . . . . . 3485 03/09/19 . . . . . 3470 04/11/19 . . . . . 3400 That’s actually pretty stable. There hasn’t been all that much change in the last several months. Contrast that with previous years’ active member count. 10/10/16. . . . . . 5005 10/11/17. . . . . . 4825 Betweem 2017 and 2018 was a bit more of a change. It might depend on where you post that you might experience more slowness. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-traffic-to-this-website-decreased-a-lot-seems-to-be-a-lot-less-activity-on-forums/831553)._