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Moviechat doing well according to Alexa!

posted 7 years ago by Moviefan225 (255)
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There was some concern about traffic slowing down on this site, and I was wondering about the same. I looked at Alexa, and we actually seem to have made a very promising start. You can never gauge the success of a site by comparing it to others, but I did so just for reference, so that we roughly know where we stand.

MOVIE CHAT

Moviechat's Alexia ranking has ZOOMED up in the past month (see Alexa link below). We still a long way to go, but we're growing very, very fast.

Moviechat traffic statistics

Moviechat also has a very engaged community:

Bounce Rate - 21.90% (The lower the better - 26% to 40% is excellent, and we are LOWER than that!)
Daily Pageviews per Visitor
7.60
Daily Time on Site
7:03

THEMOVIEDB.ORG

Themoviedb.org's rankings are much higher because they also have other info that moviechat does not have, and they have had a community from before. But click on the link below. Their ranking now is less than what it was on October 2016. The Imdb board closure has not made a drastic difference in their traffic.

Themoviedb traffic statistics

And compare their statistics to that of moviechat:

Bounce Rate
38.70%
Daily Pageviews per Visitor
4.79
Daily Time on Site
4:24

THEGOTBOARD.ORG

Its traffic is too low for a ranking

Bounce Rate
49.10%
Daily Pageviews per Visitor
2.20
Daily Time on Site
1:22

We cannot get stats for IMDB V2.

And finally, IMDB's ranking will always be much higher that this site, but even their users are not as engaged as we are:

Bounce Rate
39.20%
Daily Pageviews per Visitor
4.67
Daily Time on Site
3:56

These comparisons may or may not be very valid. But whatever the case, these stats at least seem to be pointing out that we are a very engaged community, even if our actual membership is not very high (its growing fast in any case). Let's keep our chins up! This community is doing very well.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 7 years ago

It could also be the multifaced trolls, who are causing the false positive. Until we get the one account name per email figured out, people could have several (which I have seen) from one email. If each of those usernames visit, then you have the traffic.

[–] 9 (1235) 7 years ago

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 7 years ago

ikr?

[–] Apis (1624) 7 years ago

It's not as bad as that. I see Ben regularly trolling at least two other sites (TMBd and IMDB2), plus he has to sleep sometime. One person can't do all that work. lol

[–] jim (136) 7 years ago

Arvin,

I implemented this yesterday.

1. New users can't sign up with an email that is already in use for another account
2. New users can't sign up with a temporary email (must be a real email address)
3. New users must verify their email address before making new posts
4. New users can't make an account with the same username as an existing account but with different capitalization or spaces at the end (eliminates imposter accounts)

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 7 years ago

Thanks Jim.

[–] Apis (1624) 7 years ago

Great, jim! 👍

[–] wheelin176 (2031) 7 years ago

You're the man Jim. Thank you

[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 7 years ago

Thanks jim!
Those changes should definitely solve some problems or at least make it harder to cause problems.

[–] Drmccormack (743) 7 years ago

As always, thank you Jim!

[–] neverstandinalone (641) 7 years ago

FANTASTIC!!!

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 7 years ago

Jim, this site is gonna be YUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[–] jmcd2007 (424) 7 years ago

Thanks for these nice new improvements, Jim. Hopefully this will prevent trolls from abusing this site and creating random or off topic posts as well.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 7 years ago

Jim, these implementations don't stop people from have multiple user accounts. A person can have an unlimited supply of email addresses. You can make 100 email accounts and in turn make 100 different user accounts on here. It's a never-ending cycle. I know the ignore button is up next. Please as soon as you can. Also, the [-] feature is not working. It closes comments and threads. But all of those closed comments and threads open right back up again as soon as you go back to the post. So it's not hiding anybody's comments. They all show right back up again. Just a heads up. Still love the site!!!!

[–] Moviefan225 (255) 7 years ago

The rankings are based on the number of unique visitors. So emails/accounts do not matter. As long as a person is accessing the site with one IP s/he will be one unique visitor. All devices in one home have the same IP usually. So as long as a troll is not using different physical locations for each username (highly unlikely) or using a different IP proxy for each account (this would be very time consuming but possible) all troll accounts count as one person.

[–] jim (136) 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing those stats! Really encouraging to see.

[–] allypie (92) 7 years ago

I honestly don't know what a lot of those numbers mean, but I'm glad the site is doing well! I agree that our users seem more engaged. I've found that most posts on this site are pretty substantive unlike some of the other places.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8433) 7 years ago

Do we have any idea on how much (if at all) we're growing in terms of posts per day?

You would think, as more people sign up, that we would see the growth reflected in the Trending list (with shorter and shorter "last post" times on the movies listed). But it seems like there are just as many movies in the list where the last post was an hour or more ago as there were when the feature was first implemented.

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 7 years ago

Looking up the definition of Bounce Rate:

"The percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page."

Going by that, it must be REALLY bad for a site to have high Bounce Rates, because that means visitors take ONE look at the first page they see....and leave. Either the content is so uninteresting, visually horrid (troll infestation?) or dead (no one even there) that people go "Bye!" and leave after 1-2 minutes. Like it wasn't even worth entering the web address into the URL bar that day.

The promising Alexa figures is actually good news for MovieChat. I know there's variables that make a true 1-to-1 metrics comparison difficult sometimes, but it seems like people are checking out a good handful of links daily, and are hanging around longer than on other message boards. And this is just for the beginning. If we can also keep troll activity at bay, things should improve a lot.

[–] vandyvch (77) 7 years ago

Moviechat is easily the most disciplined and well though-out IMDB alternative of the bunch, so it comes as no surprise it's trouncing the others. IMDB v2.0 probably had the fastest short-term growth at one time, but it's very evident it's lost its steam already.

[–] [email protected] (1295) 7 years ago

Thanks for the info! Love Movie Chat.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

Outstanding! I LOVE MovieChat, and I believe it will continue to grow as more people become aware of it.