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| Ian Giffin (Admin)
Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 1036 Registered: 7-1997 Posted From: 70.55.230.68 Rating: |
Hi folks, If you're visiting friends this New Years and an awkward silent moment falls upon the crowd, here are some interesting/boring (depending on your life) statistics with which you can dazzle all the attendees... This bbs now has an archive of 97,070 messages. Of these messages, I have tried to keep my mouth shut by leaving only 838 messages (839 now!) or about 8/10ths of 1% of the total messages. 1,608 viewers have subscribed to the bulletin board, now that it's mandatory! The winner of our "Holy Hanna, Did I Really Say That? Award" goes, once again, to Drivingmisslazy who has left a grand total of 1,841 messages. Oh, but that's with only one alias. Between "two dogs" and "bob_greenwood", who, it's no secret, is the same guy, he has left an astounding 2,039 messages. He asked for his profile to be deleted last summer. Gearheadgary, even though he hasn't posted since January 5, 2005, remains in 2nd place at 1,498 messages! Thank you lads!! This year, BNO occupies a little over 2 gig of server space (no wonder it's getting to be so expensive) and we've shelled out about 276 gig of information, or about 11 million web page views. In the last year, our visitors viewed about 11 pages per visit, on average. We are still welcoming about 3,500 to 4,500 visitors a day to BNO for a total of 16,225,161 hits!!! We received over 1.4 million hits in each of January, March, June, July and August. That's up from 1.2 million in each of only 3 months in 2004. In March, our highest traffic month, we averaged over 1,900 hits per hour! Most of our viewers are here at 9:00 pm Eastern and 30% of you viewers visit between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm. 9 am 'til 11 am attracts a steady stream of traffic, as well. Where do you go when you get here? Our most popular spot is this bulletin board, of course! As I have said on many occasions to potential customers, people stay where they can play!! And here you are!!! Our other busiest sections are our Home Page, our Lost Links pages and Dave Galey's online version of The Bus Converter's Bible. On the wane are our chat room, DieselChat and, of course, 2007 marks the demise of our old Buses for Sale section. But good news for both buyers and sellers of buses; we have something in the development stage that will resurrect the Buses for Sale section permanently. It took some thinking outside the box on this one, but we are aiming to revolutionize the bus buying and selling experience with a totally overhauled, and that means from the ground up, Buses for Sale section. Stay tuned - we're rolling out in January! More useless numbers? This year, 14.3% of our viewers have looked up our hobby using the word (or derivative of) "busnut", which probably represents those people who are new to BNO and to our hobby. Our highest rankings in the search engines are, in order, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Google Images and AltaVista. Over 2,400 visitors a day come to us from other bus conversion hobby web sites including, in decending order, www.busconversions.com, www.rvnetlinx.com, www.scenicruiser.com, www.rv-busconversions.com and www.rvbus.net. A sincere thank you to those who link to us from their exceptional web sites. Welcome folks! 81% of you use Microsoft Internet Explorer as your web browser. There are 9% of you using Firefox and 4% of us still use Netscape. 93% of us are running Windows as our computer operating system, while 3% use those artsy-fartsy Mac computers. Only .2% of you are smart enough to be using the virus impervious Linux OS. Good for you. Here are some scary numbers: 12% of you stay here for 2 to 5 minutes! I presume you're here only long enough to catch up on the bulletin board messages. 13% of you stay here for 5 to 15 minutes. 12% of you hang out for 15 minutes to an hour. Clearly, 3.2% of you need medical help for the fact that you stay here for over an hour! (Kidding, of course!). And here's some really, really useless information... an amazing 55% of you added us to your Bookmarks/Favorites list. How do I know these things??? Why do I know these things??? 3% of the members of Family Motor Coach Association own bus conversions, though no one at FMCA seems to ever know how many members it has. 70% of you have 102" coaches, while 26% of you have 96" coaches. Home computing ranked at 52% of leisuretime activities. Hey... hello... we're over here!! Well, it's the end of the year again! And not that we're counting, but it's BNO's 10th year online!! Whee!!! Folks, thank you so much for making this another fabulous year at BNO. Though you don't spend as much time with us, statistically, as you used to, there are many more of you discovering our web site than ever before, as our numbers continue to show steady growth. As I have said so many times, I absolutely couldn't have done this without your continued support. I am very grateful to each and every one of you for visiting BNO. You know, they say you can't be aloof about success, and although so many of you have kindly acknowledged my participation in this venture, it is, indeed, I who am most appreciative of you. Again, thank you. All the very best to you and yours throughout this holiday season and the very happiest New Year to all! Warmest best wishes, Ian Giffin www.busnut.com | ||
| Ednj (Ednj)
Registered Member Username: Ednj Post Number: 177 Registered: 3-2003 Posted From: 67.85.229.150 Rating: N/A |
Pretty interesting stuff....thanks for the synopsis, Ian. Happy New Year. | ||
| joe padberg (Joemc7ab)
Registered Member Username: Joemc7ab Post Number: 189 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 66.38.159.33 Rating: |
Ian I must be disease ridden, scarcely a day goes by that I don't get that fix perusing what's new here. Best to you for 2008 and all those that dwell here. Joe. | ||
| Tom Caffrey (Pvcces)
Registered Member Username: Pvcces Post Number: 1167 Registered: 5-2001 Posted From: 65.74.67.83 Rating: N/A |
Happy New Year, Ian. Tom Caffrey PD4106-2576 Suncatcher Ketchikan, Alaska | ||
| William Sloan (Ole_timer)
Registered Member Username: Ole_timer Post Number: 12 Registered: 9-2006 Posted From: 68.188.169.31 Rating: N/A |
Verrrry interesting. Happy New Year & Good luck Ian. Old Bill | ||
| Ron Walker (Prevost82)
Registered Member Username: Prevost82 Post Number: 357 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 208.181.210.47 Rating: N/A |
Thank you Ian for providing a great site. Happy New to you and your family. Ron | ||
| Richard Bowyer (Drivingmisslazy)
Registered Member Username: Drivingmisslazy Post Number: 2027 Registered: 1-2001 Posted From: 208.180.227.132 Rating: N/A |
Thanks for the info I@N and happy new year. I don't know how I feel about being the biggest blabbermouth or maybe it is just because I have been on the board since inception, or very close to it. Richard | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 175 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 76.4.148.149 Rating: N/A |
thank you Ian for your patience and consideration for all the crazy BUS NUTS, me included, for having a great site. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and ALL the other BUS NUTS. Gomer | ||
| Paso One (Paso_1)
Registered Member Username: Paso_1 Post Number: 107 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 142.165.246.239 Rating: N/A |
Thanks Ian for the interesting post. also for the web site. I have a question If I log in and leave my browser on the bullitin board and wander off dealing with business and come back 45 minites later do I show up on your sick list  | ||
| John and Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
Registered Member Username: Bigrigger Post Number: 40 Registered: 9-2007 Posted From: 24.197.246.104 Rating: N/A |
Thanks for the well tended site Ian, even if it was instrumental in my developing the "honey, we really need a bus" syndrome. Happy New Year and may God bless you in your endeavors. | ||
| Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
Registered Member Username: Dreamscape Post Number: 197 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 64.40.222.139 Rating: N/A |
Thanks Ian for THE BOARD and the information you provided. Also for providing a place for us nuts to visit. Happy New Year to You and Everyone on this board! | ||
| Luvrbus (Luvrbus)
Registered Member Username: Luvrbus Post Number: 227 Registered: 8-2006 Posted From: 74.33.55.251 Rating: N/A |
Ian,thanks for the board this is where most us Eagle owners hangout not as much abuse here and we can deal with FF( glad to see him back) I know some don't miss 2 dogs posting but I do sometimes he was funny and serious. Best to you and the family for 2008 | ||
| Bill Gerrie (Bill_gerrie)
Registered Member Username: Bill_gerrie Post Number: 130 Registered: 3-2006 Posted From: 209.50.74.6 Rating: N/A |
Ian. Thanks for the interesting stats. You have the best site for bus nuts. I may not post as often as some but I do have the bus bug. As your stats indicate it is very contagious. Happy New year to you and Macy. | ||
| Rob Norgren (Robsedona)
Registered Member Username: Robsedona Post Number: 28 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 70.210.161.62 Rating: N/A |
Happy New Year Glad I Found this BB this year and made some new friends :-) | ||
| ChuckMC9 (Chucks)
Registered Member Username: Chucks Post Number: 1191 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.2.21.202 Rating: N/A |
Bossnut, I have enjoyed your EOY recaps for quite a few years now, and I always find something curious that surprises me. This year the interesting nugget is that 70% of the users have 102" coaches?! I would have never, never guessed that. Well for those of us increasingly marginalized 'classic' folk, perhaps we can take solace in the thought that maybe the girth of the fatter coaches is reflective of their owner's waistlines? LOL Just funnin! I@n, you know that I've said many times how grateful I am for having found BNO some five years ago. There is absolutely, positively NO WAY that I I'd like to again sincerely thank you and those who contribute their knowledge and points-of-view to those of us who still need a lot of hand-holding. With all of the hand-wringing and wailing about the "state of the world" out there in the world now, it's a pleasant relief to come to a place where the biggest controversy is 'solid vs. stranded', 'basement vs. carbunckles', 'foam vs. sheet', or 'pex vs. cpvc'. Ya'll keep it up, and if I ever get smart enough I'll add a nugget or two one of these days. | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 790 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.48.5 Rating: N/A |
Thanks for taking the time to post this info .. it is very useful for " reflection " by many of us. I see the inactivity in the chat room... when somebody logs in, there can only be heard the sound of crickets; don't know how this can be fixed, esp. with changes in time zones. | ||
| Rod Bourland (Roddymc8)
Registered Member Username: Roddymc8 Post Number: 17 Registered: 8-2007 Posted From: 24.20.217.157 Rating: N/A |
Besides all the great comments above...this is just a fun site with alot of great people. And I'm proudly proclaiming my allegiance to the skinny 26 percent, cuz I'm always root'n for the underdog.....and in fact I think I shall start the newyear with a new name..UNDERDOG...Ya'l have a great newyear...U.D. | ||
| Nick Badame Refrigeration Co. (Dnick85)
Registered Member Username: Dnick85 Post Number: 191 Registered: 2-2006 Posted From: 75.197.73.25 Rating: N/A |
Hi I@N, Happy 10th Year! This is an Outstanding and Valuable place that you have created! Thanks and many many more to you! Nick- | ||
| Syl Szucsko (Syl)
Registered Member Username: Syl Post Number: 20 Registered: 6-2006 Posted From: 74.36.39.167 Rating: N/A |
My my how time flies, been with you since you started Busnuts.happy new years to you and the family. | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 562 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 66.217.107.48 Rating: N/A |
I@n..... Re: "Where do you go when you get here? Our most popular spot is this bulletin board, of course! " "Of Course"?!?! What choice do we have? It's not like you have a porno room someplace. (Hoppy mew yesr tp yuo) | ||
| Linda & Kirby Karlsson (Linda4104fl)
Registered Member Username: Linda4104fl Post Number: 19 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 68.30.146.72 Rating: N/A |
Hmmm..,.. he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good... So, the secret is out! I@n is the real Santa Claus!!!! Ian & Maisie, hope your Christmas was a good one and that the coming year will be better than the best you've ever had! Linda | ||
| al olszewski (Happydays)
Registered Member Username: Happydays Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 69.19.14.36 Rating: N/A |
I just love the good info on this board......and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all..and every day,a HAPPY ONE, | ||
| John Zabrocki (John_z)
Registered Member Username: John_z Post Number: 60 Registered: 9-2006 Posted From: 64.61.224.192 Rating: N/A |
Another "skinny bus" owner here to say thanks to Ian, this board, and all the members. Happy New Year!!!! John Z | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1141 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.66.18.80 Rating: N/A |
Thank you, a thousand thank yous! |@n, we are all appreciative of your support of this hobby/disease of converting perfectly good buses/scrap into rolling palaces of "my way". Why didn't you tell Jmc9 where the link is? happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| Randy Terry (R_terry)
Registered Member Username: R_terry Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 207.230.144.240 Rating: N/A |
Ian, I think you have the Energizer Bunny beat: you are still going, and going, after all these years. I wish my bus had a battery like that! You're awesome! Another Happy New Year to you, Sir, and of course, to all Busnuts, who are, in essence, one big family. Best wishes for 2008! Randy Terry "Salvage Yard on Wheels" | ||
| Dave Brawdy (Dbrawdy)
Registered Member Username: Dbrawdy Post Number: 15 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 67.142.130.28 Rating: N/A |
Thanks Ian for helping so many busnuts. Without this site I don't know what I would have done. The posts have been very educational and informative and have saved me so much grief and $$ on my journey. I only wish that I would have found it sooner! | ||
| Roderick W. Chandler (Rod)
Registered Member Username: Rod Post Number: 33 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.30.188.128 Rating: N/A |
Hard to believe that I have been lurking for ten years. I have learned alot in that time and will soon get an opportunity to apply it. Thanks for the board thanks for the information from everyone. Rod | ||
| ChuckMC9 (Chucks)
Registered Member Username: Chucks Post Number: 1192 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.2.18.193 Rating: N/A |
RTERRY, you're WAY overdue for another story series!!! Good to hear from you, man. (for those who haven't had the treat, R.Terry is a supreme wordsmith. "Quality Time - Tennessee Bus" is one of his masterworks.) (Message edited by chucks on January 01, 2008) | ||
| Rod Bourland (Roddymc8)
Registered Member Username: Roddymc8 Post Number: 18 Registered: 8-2007 Posted From: 24.21.162.111 Rating: N/A |
Thanks Chuck, I got tears run'n down my cheeks,that's a funny story there, I don't care who ya ar.....but what about the coach ?...did it ever get to Phoenix ? I just gots ta know! U.D. |
