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The Community at iKnifeCollector Factoids

There is nothing like iKC anywhere on the web.

When I first was introduced to this community format/technology back early last year there was no doubt in my mind it would ~~make~~ provide for (cause "WE" are the community)- the next generation knife collector community. I'm also going to guess it will remain the most cutting-edge technology until the real geeks of the world make it so we can show our knives to each other in 3-D or High Def, or until we can use all of our 5 senses to complement our web experience.

I sincerely appreciate your participation here. iKC is alive; It is dynamic. It is 24/7.

Almost daily I have members telling me how much they like our community and what it offers our hobby. Comments like this truly make my day. Thank you for helping me make our community what it is today.

For the curious, here are a few iKC factoids.

Date Created: Apr. 14, 2009

First Members (April 16, 2009):
Derek Smith
Gary Kennedy
Chris Hyde
Ken Mundhenk
Roger Cunningham
Lisa Sebenick

Number of members as of 9:20 PM Sunday, January 24, 2010: 1760

Members joined last week: 56

Fastest Growing Month: December 2009- (452 members)

Second Fastest Growing Month- January 2010- (412 members to date)

Total number of Visits yesterday- Saturday, January 23, 2010 (last full day)- 388

Number of Unique Visitors yesterday- Saturday, January 23, 2010 (last full day)- 222

Total number of Pageviews yesterday- Saturday, January 23, 2010 (last full day)- 4,048

Most Popular Community Areas: Member Profiles; Photos; Groups, Forums

Average time spend for each visit in the community: 11 minutes

Traffic Sources: 44% Direct traffic; 43% referred; 11% search engines (since day one)

Average Age: 45 years young

Visitor/Member - Top 20 World Regions:
1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia
5. New Zealand
6. Finland
7. Netherlands
8. Germany
9. South Africa
10. Sweden
11. (not set)
12. Puerto Rico
13. Brazil
14. Poland
15. France
16. Norway
17. Slovakia
18. Belgium
19. Italy
20. Mexico

66% of members not a member of a "traditional" knife club/Association

44% of members subscribe to offline traditional print mags/pubs

Number of iKC Groups: 67

Come April when we celebrate our first year, I'll update the stats then, but as I was geeking around, I couldn't help but find these stats significant and thought you would too.

Thanks again for making iKC a knife place to call home!
Scott

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Comment by Roger Cunningham on January 29, 2010 at 12:21: I like factiods too,........much better than hemorrhoids.

Comment by Gary Kennedy on January 26, 2010 at 18:21: like the factiods

Comment by J.J. Smith III on January 25, 2010 at 19:43: Alrighty then...

In Memoriam Comment by Scott King on January 25, 2010 at 16:43: A Unique Visitor is someone that comes to the community the first time in a given timeframe. If that same person comes more than once in that same timeframe it isn't counted as "unique" instead is just a visit- like the example day I shared which was last Saturday (just used that one cause it was the last full day when I wrote the blog), but 222 people came to the site a total of 388 times- meaning many of them came back more than once in that same day.

I'll also add the 11 minutes is the average for EACH visit over the since iKC opened. So if someone hits the site and then decides iKC isn't for them and then in a matter of seconds decides to not join (I can't imagine) compared with folks like JJ, who really does live here :) It is an average over the life of the community, which is good considering the site has been visited something like 78,000 times since last April. Most people when they hit a webpage "scan" it in seconds and then click out or on to another page within the same "site."

Comment by J.J. Smith III on January 25, 2010 at 15:56: 11 minutes must be an average between me and all the folks that don't visit every day.
Also just what is a "Unique Visitor"?

(You callin me names again?)