WinCustomize - December 2001
Tuesday, January 1, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Referral wise, and referrals are the lifebood of this site most users came from Stardock again.Out of the skin sites
#1 Customize.org
#2 DeviantART (85% of Customize.org)
#3 DeskMod (22% of Customize.org)
#4 Pixutdio (13% of Customize.org)
#5 LotsOfSkins (6% of Customize.org)
#6 Skinz.org (5% of Customize.org)
#7 SkinBase (4% of Customize.org)
The referrals are all appreciated and the fact that the sites link to each other shows the cooperation between them. We're going to have to expand our # of links to at least 6 since to fit the new skin sites.
In December we had 774,000 UNIQUE visitors (not to be confused with hits or visitors, this is the number of actual different people who visited the site). This is up from 741,000 in November.
So what OS did you people use?
Windows 2000: 42%
Windows 98: 25%
Windows XP: 18%
Windows ME: 11%
Windows NT: 2%
Wndows 95: 1%
(Was Windows ME a flop or what??)
Now, here's some data you don't normally see and it's important - how many "Regulars" does this site have? Often times the word "community" is bandied about qiuckly and easily. How many people are in such a community?
Here are some stats that give you an idea of the immensity of such a community:
10,000 different people last month visited the site over 100 times. I would say those people are DEFINITELY very interested in customization.
If you look at the # of people who visited the site on average once per day the number jumps to over 45,000 (up from 42,000 in November).
And these users are mostly power users. For 75% (3 out of 4) run at 1024x768 or higher resolution. Only 22% run at 800x600 or lower. This implies users who are more confident with their knowledge of computers and have higher end hardware.
Getting back to the usual problem of bandwidth. Really, we have no idea how the other skin sites do it (except for the ones with relatively low bandwidth requirements). At the tail end of November we upgraded WC's bandwidth to 20 megabits to handle the traffic (we're not maxed out on bandwidht anymore but the we could use more hardware now
Plus, if you want to help this site, please feel free to buy a shirt or a CD or Object Desktop (www.objectdesktop.com).
As we end 2001, PC desktop customization has, as predicted exploded with the release of Windows XP. Despite only makin gup 17% of the population of the site, they regular push skins to the top of the download charts.
Happy new year!
WhiteSpider
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 7:56 AM
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 7:56 AM
Windows XP is a big suck hole scam anyway. So there is no other way possible by altering the layout of ur site, graphic quality etc, it may increase the sites bandwidth performance?
You could place a little counter down the bottom of the page to show how fast the pages open.. like we see on some other sites.
You could place a little counter down the bottom of the page to show how fast the pages open.. like we see on some other sites.
DarkRiseR
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 8:37 AM
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 8:37 AM
hehe, i JUST signed up here. This is so goddamn nice. I mean the whole "project" & all 
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craeonics
Reply #4 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 9:58 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 9:58 AM
Duh, just remembered I always come here by direct link (bookmark), so no referrer for me. How many of those are there?
MadIce
Reply #5 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 11:54 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 11:54 AM
Frogboy: There are now 5 links to community sites. Why not add 3 instead of one to cover all 7 sites mentioned by you 
The numbers 5, 6 and 7 on your list only differ marginally (+/- 1%). All these sites are important to the community. The amount of overhead is nothing compared to the text and graphics in the middle of the page. Just my 2 € cents
The numbers 5, 6 and 7 on your list only differ marginally (+/- 1%). All these sites are important to the community. The amount of overhead is nothing compared to the text and graphics in the middle of the page. Just my 2 € cents
Frogboy
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 1:27 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 1:27 PM
MadIce - I agree. We've tried to keep the links to a minimum in order for each one to matter. But yea, it looks like we're going to have to add more to fit the new sites.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 2, 2002 4:33 AM