I had a support ticket from a member "It's no longer always 200+ surfing anymore!" It was almost in a panic like StartXchange was doomed. It did make me think about it though.
The reason it made me think was that the number of pages viewed daily wasn't going down, and the number of members I mail out to keeps increasing. (I only mail out to active members). So why the decrease in surfing at a time?
I've also noticed that in the mornings more people are surfing (7AM EST) than before. It used to be maybe 60, but now closer to 150 (if I recall correctly).
All I can come up with is more people are surfing, but just surfing less pages at a time. Since the number of active members has increased and the number of pages views remained the same. The shift in # surfing could just be that more are surfing in the mornings.
To be honest, I don't think the shift has much importance. I do think its better to have more people, less viewing, because you are getting more eyes on your site. You still have the branding ability but with less click fatigue it should bring up the results.
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How much did the super surf have to do with activity at one time?
i am not surfing as much anywhere anymore as the results from heavy surfing vs. light surfing are the same for me. zip nada nothing
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I’m sure it varies by person and by other circumstances. I think I was doing 100+ per day for a week or two, but I had both desktops in my home crash and spent a week trying to fix the XP installations before giving in with a format and fresh install :P
I hope to get back to at least 100 a day.
Lisle
Do You not think that where people come from is changing.
You would consider my evening surfing as morning because of the time difference. I live in the UK
I have noticed an increase in European names.
Am I right?
Yes I forgot to mention that as well.
Some of what you have been seeing has to be due to the Super Surfing. In my case, I live in Arizona. I was surfing late at night, then discovered a couple of the prime sites did not close down at the same time as StartXchange. Traffic-Splash, for instance. Not sure when their day ends, but I know it is not the same as SX. So, I decided that if I wanted the credits for all the sites, I would have to switch to mornings, and of course, being the same as Pacific time zone until October 13, I am three hours behind you East Coasters. StartXchange day ends at 9:00 PM our time, and 10:00 PM in the winter.
Hope that helps somewhat in your decision processes.
Ed
Hi Ed – Time zones won’t have anything to do with SuperSurf bonus ;-) Not sure what you mean by “sites did not close down at the same time as StartXchange” cuz the sites should be only 24/7?
have you noticed if maybe there are more people chatting also? The chat is great, but if a person isn’t careful you sometimes forget to click! :)
Yeah but if they are chatting they still have to keep surfing to keep the chat active. So they’d still be in the # surfing ;-)
About server changes; recently Royal Surf, Blue Surf and Traffic Witch providing us with ELite Surf did change their server switch time to 24:00 European time. This certainly changed my surfing times somehow.
For me, it was a perfect switch, since I surf most between 19:00 and 24:00 European times. Weekends are different :-)
And yes I noticed more Europeans discovered TE industry lately also.
The new supersurf became more interesting also for me. I am more inspired by the higher credit ratio, instead of a small chance to win 5 dollars like it used to be in the past :-)
Thanks Tim, for the new Supersurf.
I believe Ed may be referring to , what time each site resets the counters!
I think SX resets @ 12 midnight.
& others @ different times.
Some are reset in mid am, est., because of their different locations.
Hang in there Lisle, I’ve been fighting the same problem w/ both of my PC’s
1- has been wiped clean, & reloaded xp, the other still limping along @ half speed.
Boy am I glad I use Centos for my servers and Ubuntu for my laptop. of course hardware still fails but the OSes are stable as can be and supported like crazy.
Anyway, Tim, I was trying to super-surf the other night and could not get it to take. I even booted into my Vista Ultimate partition and tried that way, I tried with Firefox, Safari, Chrome and IE (I really wanted the 100% bonus, dang it). Any ideas what I can do?
Make sure you aren’t using any kind of proxy to surf. If your IP changes each view it won’t work.
Hi Tim,
I have noticed the same trend, maybe because I was surfing 1200+ per day and had my computers stolen caused the shift ha ha!
Good to be back on line, I totally sympathize with Lisle i am going through the same trauma
Regards
Mark
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