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Kense

Kense Report 21 Sep 2012 18:46

The problem with Thelma's method is that there was a big shake up of boards in May 2011, there were no Suggestions before that nor any FLR.

Also the drop off in messages occurs before the first (abortive) introduction of the new tree

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 21 Sep 2012 17:32

Is site traffic number of hits? In which case, I can understand that this is still very high. A huge amount of info has been traded here over 8+ years and if you did a google search, you would almost certainly find something from this site. From ancestors of Genghis Khan to making lavender biscuits.

Certainlly, Thelma's stats hit home more with me. Dried up quicker than a coconut in the sun. But is that termed "traffic" by these marketing gurus?

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

Thelma

Thelma Report 21 Sep 2012 14:22

Depends how you measure.
Count the surviving threads on any board.
Find Ancestors
Page 0001 27/09/2012
Page 1001 28/03/2011
Page 2001 10/07/2010
Page 3001 17/11/2009
Page 4001 27/04/2009
Work it out. I think traffic has more than halved in a year.

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 21 Sep 2012 12:16

No.

Wayback uses "crawlers" - a program which reads web sites and save the information for various purposes eg search (Google is basically a giant crawling machine which among other things has all posts to GRU ), archiving old web sites ...
The stats Wayback gives relate to the frequency of the crawling, not the use of the web site.

Despite what you may believe there has been no marked change in gru site traffic during the last few months according to well known sources for such data.

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 21 Sep 2012 10:50

Don't know what "crawling on GRU" means, Rollo.

But, unless I am much mistaken, it seems to say site peaked in 2005, was most popular 2003-2007 and has not been picking up much traffic since 2007. Is that fair?

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

Susan

Susan Report 21 Sep 2012 10:38


Rollo

When I joined Genes back in 2006 I thought it was great ...I was new to Computers and did not know much about Genealogy so the site was very good for me .

Now ...... I tried the Chrome download and totally mucked that up so I am back to square one.

I will have to pay a Computer man money to bring me up to date and I should not have to....I really think Genes do not give a hoot about what they have done to this site.


To Answer your original question 2006

Researching:
Haycock ...London and Gloucestershire , Walters... South Wales and Gloucestershire , Lewis... South Wales , French ...Nottingham and Essex.

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 19 Sep 2012 15:21

Which theme did you like best ?

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20050701000000*/http://www.genesreunited.co.uk

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

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