1000 nodes!

If nobody beat me to it, this is the 1000th 'node' on the IVRPA site. Every forum post, blog post and gallery item, as well as most of the 'static' pages of the site constitute nodes, but comments are not counted as nodes*. The posts to the photokina subsite are not included in the main node count.

The IVRPA site has only been open for the public for about half a year now, so 1000 nodes is not bad at all. Ofcourse the site was not empty half a year ago; My announcement in this blog that the site had gone beta for all members was already node 159, and according to our database the very first node, which has since been changed substantially, was originally posted on the 29th of december 2005 (yes, getting the site up and running has been a real labour of love).

The 1000 nodes on the site have been created by 165 different users, and we have 101 users who have posted one or more comments. We have about 235 current members, but many of the site contributors are newly attracted 'free users' of the site participating in the public areas of the site. Since the site went public, around 450 new users signed up for an account for the site. 70 of those new users are at this moment paying members!

According to Google Analytics, we get about 300-500 unique visitors per day. That's not a huge number, but I have a feeling Google Analytics are on the conservative side; A serverside log analyser rates us in at 1000-1400 visitors a day. It is hard to decide which to believe. About 35% of our visitors are returning visitors, I assume those are our members and free users of the site.

Thanks for visiting and using the site!

*: the comment counter also recently passed the 1000 mark! It was da8iwr's comment on one of lookdigital's KAP panoramas