No, I’m not planning to declare us an independent county, but rather I wanted to show some graphs of our growth since the inception of our first forum nearly nine years ago (and boards.ie Ltd. in 2000).

First off, some stats from Alexa, showing our growth in terms of our daily traffic rank (currently, we are ranked around number 8,500 out of the top 100,000 sites in the world, at number 19 out of all worldwide sites accessed in Ireland, and at number 3 in terms of Irish sites in Ireland), daily reach (95 per million users), and page views per user (9.6 on average).

Secondly, from Google Analytics, here are some statistics on page views, total visits, visits by source / returning or new / geographical location. We’re getting an average of 250k page views per day, 7.5M page views per month, and an average of 30k visits per day, with 925k visits per month. 67% are returning visitors, and therefore 33% of visitors are new. We also seem to have at least 57% of visits from Dublin, but the geographic data from ISPs may not be entirely accurate in Ireland. We can see the expected seasonal drops at the end of each year (we belive that this year’s drop is in part due to some of our hardware limitations).

Finally, some statistics I’ve gathered from our own forum database. As of two days ago, we had 87,139 user accounts, 575 forums, 476,626 threads and 5,597,227 posts. adverts.ie has 12,507 classified items with 2.5M views as well. More interestingly, here’s the overall growth in terms of users, forums, threads and posts. The users, threads and posts show a nice natural exponential growth; what’s funny is that we’ve unknowingly been creating forums at a near-linear rate since 2001.