SaabsUnited is growing
April 25, 2011 in Uncategorized
I’d like to report that we have now reached 1500 registered users on SaabsUnited. I think this is fantastic! =) We have 1500 people with an opinion that want to be heard here! The amount of users registering is about 5-15 per day so it’s increasing fast =)
Since the hand-over from Swade to the new SU-Crew, the statistics for the first 4 weeks looks good in terms of unique page-views per week (visitors / published page):
Week 12: 147’051
Week 13: 174’581
Week 14: 175’060
Week 15: 190’221
So far the website has had 591’000 visitors in April, and with about 5 days left and a visiting average of 15-25000 visitors per day I estimate that we should reach at least 650’000 visitors this month. An average for the past 6 months have been about 590’000 so this makes April’s number less than March but still a very good month for us! =)
Thanx for reading our articles I hope you will continue to enjoy SaabsUnited and all the great stories and features to the website which we will present very soon! =)
Viggen said on April 25, 2011
And thank you for all the work you put into it! i am a regular visitor and i will be one
jet black said on April 25, 2011
If only Saab was growing as fast as Saabsunited
Anyway, you guys at SU are doing a great job. It’s always reassuring to know where to get trustworthy information, especially in these hard times.
Keep up the good work!
And now I’m off for a little Easter Monday tour in my convertible
Bernard said on April 25, 2011
“If only Saab was growing as fast as Saabsunited.”
I think that growing interest in SU is a sign of good things to come for Saab. There’s a good buzz out there, and it’s growing at a healthy rate.
Chicago Swede said on April 25, 2011
SU is the first and last thing I check everyday, (often many times more). Thank you for providing a place for the latest information on the SAAB brand and a true sense of community!
Chris Carrier said on April 25, 2011
Okay, we have GOT to get a Chicago SAAB club together. Contact me somehow if you’re interested.
andyb said on April 25, 2011
saabsunited is the place for the latest saab news ,and open and honest discussion.for me it is the best source of the latest news and ideas.thats why its growing.
MK said on April 25, 2011
+1
coggs said on April 25, 2011
Don’t know where we would have turned if you guys had not taken over SU. Swade is obviously (and understandably) not able to cover a lot of the recent topics on Inside Saab due to his formal affiliation with the company. A lot of the other Saab forums I used to visit seem to be heading in the opposite direction as SU – largely due to them being sold to businesses far more interested in pop-up advertising revenue than discussions of Saabs. I look forward to the day when we can visit SU and Inside Saab and read about the great products, owner gatherings, Saab involvement in motor sports, etc, and get away from this tedious discussion of politics and financing. I still expect that day to come.
Olav said on April 25, 2011
It is no surprise that SU is growing. You guys are doing very, very well as new owners of SU! Visiting SU several times a day is a basic need
Keep up your great work!
Cheers from Norway
-Olav-
Always on the longest road home when out there with my SAAB. Always!
PS: Weather has been very nice in Norway this Easter, so I have been on the longest road home several times also with my BMW R1200GS. Life is good!
sonett71 said on April 25, 2011
I am very happy to read about the fast growing of Saab United. Thank you for the great work and all the news about Saab and the people involved in Saab. Keep on…
turbokalle said on April 25, 2011
Good news SU crew! You are all worth the attention!
As the workload of a golfpro tends to increase by a couple of 100% this time of year I’m not able to visit as often as I’d like, but hey, two to four times a day is still pretty good
Vector-SS said on April 25, 2011
You guys are doing a great job, well deserved, and thanks for the hard work!
bramfoto said on April 25, 2011
Congrats from San Francisco. Keep up giving us information and a place to exchange ideas.
MarqeDeSaab said on April 25, 2011
+ 1 from
Denver……..
Frank Wulfers said on April 25, 2011
Are these numbers for page views or visitors? What about unique visitors and number of pages per visit? DO these numbers include search engine spiders and other non-human traffic?
Khrisdk said on April 25, 2011
Why?
1500 regs is all human. At least if the filters work.
As far as I can se the same statistics are used as when SU was on Swades hands, so that should be enough to show the development since then
But why the interest?
Frank Wulfers said on April 25, 2011
I am just curious how site activity compare to other (Saab) sites. And page view numbers don’t really have that much value without additional details.
On the Saab forums, it seems only about 10% of registered users are active users. I am not saying this is the case on SU but I found many sign up just for signing up and never post.
TimR said on April 25, 2011
Well, regardless of it’s an active user or not, they took the time to sign up so that they one day may share their opinion. This I think is important! And the registration period has only been open for 4 weeks so right now its impossible to say how many is active. After a period of 6 months we’ll have a much better picture of that.
The fact is that almost everyone we talk to, weather it be someone from the swedish government, newspapers, dealers, suppliers… they all read saabsunited, often several times per day, its thousands of people we’re talking about. At Saab for example we’ve found that almost all the production managers, development and people at a high level read the website several times per day… So the number are confirmed…
In the last 30 day period we have had 152’143 leads from facebook, which is an increase of 127% since march…
TimR said on April 25, 2011
The numbers are visits per unique ip address. Each visit is limited to and only counts once in a period between 00:00-23:59 local server time, in this case CET.
Red J said on April 25, 2011
Tim,
you forgot that OUR visits are not counted.
Frank Wulfers said on April 25, 2011
Thanks Tim, that explains a bit more about the numbers. It’s nice to see SU is doing so well.
OliverH said on April 25, 2011
So i’ve at least 3 counts made (mobile with iPhone, @home and @company). And if you look at unique browser id I’ve must show at least 5 counts. So this numbers doesn’t say the whole story. But is definitely shows the growing interest.
Khrisdk said on April 25, 2011
Well
I am not sure if many people would have any use from looking at complete AWStats from a site.
The forums are another case than SU in my view.
One of my forums has about 2500 registered users.
Many do not post regularily, but they do post when they have something they needs answered ie. real life problems with their cars or just wants general info.
We have some very active users and it is also being used for other discussions than things Saab, so we are running at 1100 unique hits daily which makes us the no. 1 car forum in DK
My other forum functions as a garage, much like yours at Saabworld, and provides an archive much like yours.
That site has a very low activity in the forums, but provides another service so that is ok.
I am also running that site up against StopForumSpam and Project Honeypot so not many get through
I think that SU functions more like an info central, and that the activity level by individual registered users is much higher than on the Saab forums because the function is unique to the Saav society
But under all circumstances it is hard to measure the individual activity level of users.
Frank Wulfers said on April 25, 2011
Is SU much different from a forum? I see SU as a general Saab discussion and information forum where the moderators/administrator decide about the content of new threads and regular users can only comment. And I am not saying that is a bad thing because you have more control over content.
Measuring and analyzing site traffic is a complicated process.
Khrisdk said on April 25, 2011
In my view there is a big difference.
If SU should be like the other forums it should be a Buddy Press setup, or allow all users to post from the frontpage.
SU has always worked as one mans view of things, while allowing everyone to comment on his opinions and what he choose to publisice.
This has now been replaced by a collective who does exactly the same thing but have now chosen to let people register to be able to comment.
If the Crew was not here you would either have nothing about he crisis, which I think is the attutude in most of the Saab Forums, at least in Europe, or the complete panic that we see in comments at times.
SU provides a function that a forum can not, exactly because it is a blog, not a forum
And yes, sitting with all the info from Google Analytics and a little AWstat + whatever other info one can find is a pain.
aki said on April 26, 2011
Great work guys. I really apreciate what you´are doing and thank you for keeping us on top of the Saaby news.