The silent mob...

Yeah, that is a large number, and I’ve also noticed quite a lot of new users (not guests) in the last 6 months. It’d be interesting to find out where the new people are getting referred from.

Don’t web bots count as guests? It could be that these are proliferating.

I must be really tired: instead of “Typophile peak times”, I had read “Typophile park themes” which, in my mind, became “Thypophile theme parks”.
The mind boggles and the imagination run wild...

I’m pretty sure that web bots are no longer counted as visitors. They were at one time and it really threw our numbers off, but it was fixed a year or so ago.

I haven’t looked at the data in a while, but I can tell you that things like Twitter are driving traffic here – retweets especially because they get blogged and forwarded, etc…

Thanks Zara. I was wondering if social media were responsible, from looking at the Flickr and LinkedIn Typophile groups.

It’s an interesting time in web history — interesting for web developers who have new ways to connect with clients/customers.

right now it’s 52 users and 283 guests... it just seems high... but good high :-)

thanks zara, i was thinking that twitter and facebook would be helping.

do we know if many of the visitors are signing up? are we seeing any transfer?

The way they used to count a few years ago, visitors were in the thousands, far more than today. I am sure it is all a matter of who gets counted and how. I get the general feeling that the number of posts are way down from what they were 3 or 4 years ago.

ChrisL

well, lots of type talk now happens on facebook/twitter etc... so guess it’s to be expected.

i’ve love to use facebook connect with typophile, keeping things linked would be cool.