Is interest in HPC waning?

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Obsessive interest in HPC from certain posters on here shows no sign at all of waning.

Pimperne1

Graham_Devon wrote: »

You haven't a clue about how advertising on the interweb works....have you.

I actually am interested in this so if you can provide a short brief then I would be grateful. I myself would be surprised if M&S based their willingness to spend advertising money not on the number of people who actually visited the site to see their adverts but on the number of people who found Creditcrunch on Google but went no further (is that what you are saying?).

Graham_Devon

Google match the ads from a pool up to the words displayed on the page.

So if the page mentions lots of words surrounding horses, you'd be fed adverts probably to do with horses, or related to horses in some way.

Pimperne1

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Google match the ads from a pool up to the words displayed on the page.

So if the page mentions lots of words surrounding horses, you'd be fed adverts probably to do with horses, or related to horses in some way.

But does this bit mean what it seems to say, ie unique visitors to site and total visitors to site (presumably the CreditCrunch site)?

Unique visitors: 81,134
Number of visits: 221,146

Graham_Devon

It means it had 81k visits by computers that were counted as "new visitors". I.e. that computer or device had not been tracked visiting before.

It has 221k visits. That is, a new session by a device from start to finish.

Either way, they are not particularly high numbers.

Pimperne1

Graham_Devon wrote: »

It means it had 81k visits by computers that were counted as "new visitors". I.e. that computer or device had not been tracked visiting before.

It has 221k visits. That is, a new session by a device from start to finish.

Either way, they are not particularly high numbers.

They are not particularly high numbers but they seem high when you see how many visitors they have on site at any one time (in fact "incredible" would better describe it). So your comment:

You haven't a clue about how advertising on the interweb works....have you

seems a bit misplaced when I simply questioned that so many people were visiting the site - looks like my understanding of the bit I was describing wasn't very far off the mark.

Graham_Devon

It's not misplaced. You simply haven't got a clue about how it works and you are at a point of desperation I've not often witnessed on here, trying to and make out another site is lying about their statistics...their hosting provider is in on this lying, and making them look bigger than they are...Incredible....seriously.

Desperation on a whole new level.

Pimperne1

Graham_Devon wrote: »

It's not misplaced. You simply haven't got a clue about how it works and you are at a point of desperation I've not often witnessed on here, trying to and make out another site is lying about their statistics...their hosting provider is in on this lying, and making them look bigger than they are...Incredible....seriously.

Desperation on a whole new level.

Well they have eight members on there now (or at least in the last 90 minutes) so I would be interested to know how many visits that is likely to generate since now is about prime time for visitors to the site. Still sounds like Jackanory to me. Incidentally, it seems that I did have a clue how it worked as you have since confirmed my first post was correct.

Graham_Devon

Pimperne1 wrote: »

Well they have eight members on there now (or at least in the last 90 minutes) so I would be interested to know how many visits that is likely to generate since now is about prime time for visitors to the site. Still sounds like Jackanory to me. Incidentally, it seems that I did have a clue how it worked as you have since confirmed my first post was correct.

Your first post suggested 220,000 individual people were checking what 8 people had to say.

As demonstrated, you don't have a clue.....still, even after all the explanations.

Pimperne1

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Your first post suggested 220,000 individual people were checking what 8 people had to say.

As demonstrated, you don't have a clue.....still, even after all the explanations.

That's exactly right. There are around 8 regular posters and a couple of non regulars. You yourself say that each year they are having around 220k visits - I think I've got that right.

So, less than 10 regular posters and 220k individual visits per year. If I have it wrong its because you didn't explain it very well.

It has 221k visits.