WOW looks like CPF has lost a

Yeah , the budget light subforum is especially dead...

Monthly Statistics for March 2011
Total Hits 3350229
Total Files 2329094
Total Pages 449009
Total Visits 66662
Total KBytes 41160786
Total Unique Sites 23648
Total Unique URLs 11901
Total Unique Referrers 8774
Total Unique User Agents 2327
. Avg Max
Hits per Hour 4502 13203
Hits per Day 108071 135962
Files per Day 75132 92385
Pages per Day 14484 29323
Visits per Day 2150 6399
KBytes per Day 1327767 1832875
Hits by Response Code
Undefined response code 8
Code 200 - OK 2329094
Code 206 - Partial Content 876
Code 301 - Moved Permanently 7
Code 302 - Found 19874
Code 304 - Not Modified 733471
Code 403 - Forbidden 49219
Code 404 - Not Found 217678
Code 500 - Internal Server Error 1
Code 503 - Service Unavailable 1

Top 30 of 102 Total Countries
# Hits Files KBytes Country
1 1151474 34.37% 784199 33.67% 13218117 32.11% Network
2 692731 20.68% 461096 19.80% 10917859 26.52% US Commercial
3 528266 15.77% 354812 15.23% 6861871 16.67% Unresolved/Unknown
4 156760 4.68% 81990 3.52% 1338428 3.25% Australia
5 65555 1.96% 56246 2.41% 849605 2.06% Germany
6 48640 1.45% 20615 0.89% 356308 0.87% Greece
7 42220 1.26% 27490 1.18% 462831 1.12% Canada
8 39325 1.17% 36033 1.55% 370358 0.90% Poland
9 37229 1.11% 23183 1.00% 370589 0.90% United Kingdom
10 34495 1.03% 17384 0.75% 462937 1.12% Argentina
11 34182 1.02% 29262 1.26% 267763 0.65% Japan
12 31217 0.93% 27619 1.19% 312184 0.76% Netherlands
13 30668 0.92% 25280 1.09% 319466 0.78% Croatia (Hrvatska)
14 30119 0.90% 23717 1.02% 440522 1.07% Sweden
15 28950 0.86% 25278 1.09% 374834 0.91% Russian Federation
16 27570 0.82% 25302 1.09% 306612 0.74% Singapore
17 26748 0.80% 21140 0.91% 299377 0.73% Spain
18 24953 0.74% 24080 1.03% 223527 0.54% Portugal
19 24760 0.74% 22312 0.96% 254739 0.62% Finland
20 22548 0.67% 19649 0.84% 279348 0.68% Italy
21 21666 0.65% 16105 0.69% 235040 0.57% Estonia
22 18216 0.54% 15933 0.68% 189166 0.46% Austria
23 17473 0.52% 15976 0.69% 199969 0.49% Belgium
24 15169 0.45% 13574 0.58% 126151 0.31% Hungary
25 14449 0.43% 7041 0.30% 139104 0.34% Denmark
26 13162 0.39% 11496 0.49% 150840 0.37% Norway
27 12503 0.37% 11686 0.50% 121485 0.30% Czech Republic
28 11712 0.35% 10864 0.47% 106681 0.26% Slovak Republic
29 11419 0.34% 10394 0.45% 105934 0.26% Brazil
30 10603 0.32% 3734 0.16% 166214 0.40% Slovenia

3 million hits in one month. 41 GB of bandwidth (and the pictures are all loaded elsewhere!). That is amazing.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/candlepowerforums.com#

It's quite amusing to see the DX is the goto site before and after CPF.

Well, if my experience is common, they probably have lost a lot of traffic. I used to go there every single day. Now, I go there a couple of times a week. I guess if I just started hanging out in their budget forum it might be okay but it just seems like a lot of folks on CPF have a lot more money than I do. Go to their Marketplace and see how many modders are selling $250 flashlights; some cheaper and many a whole lot more and they instantly sell out. It is incredible to me that somebody can list a $900 Spy over there and it sells in minutes.

Foy

sb56637, can you post how much traffic there is from Israel and what is its place in the 102 countries list? (am I the only one? :))

I laughed!

I'm not surprised.

Haggai: My website has two statistics engines, and the other one mentions Israel much higher on the list. So you're leaving your mark. :)

Countries Pages Hits Bandwidth
United States us 132273 984700 12.42 GB

Great Britain gb 30249 248324 2.96 GB

Germany de 25529 221454 2.73 GB

Australia au 18067 202658 1.84 GB

Canada ca 17407 183345 2.01 GB

Czech Republic cz 13832 31291 732.48 MB

Spain es 12436 164333 1.50 GB

Argentina ar 6899 27343 418.31 MB

Sweden se 6546 51798 651.61 MB

Russian Federation ru 6021 45478 563.52 MB

Slovenia si 5872 37677 596.65 MB

China cn 4494 41790 413.22 MB

European country eu 4214 25628 336.05 MB

Norway no 3614 35215 398.66 MB

Japan jp 3134 38574 427.14 MB

Poland pl 2800 43264 405.54 MB

Israel il 2763 34059 288.73 MB

Singapore sg 2760 30069 336.26 MB

India in 2708 20366 261.30 MB

Greece gr 2668 43849 309.06 MB

Italy it 2590 21497 269.97 MB

France fr 2471 22193 261.70 MB

Croatia hr 2462 30919 321.95 MB

Finland fi 2108 25350 264.76 MB

Indonesia id 2103 17822 244.73 MB

Others 29878 386353 3.71 GB

AWWW DAMN I just missed out on buying a $470+ shipping AAA torch...........................

It was listed at 12:18pm (my time), sold by 12.19pm.... Need to count that in seconds, considering that it takes a whole minute to load/read/decide/load page/reply/post.

Was a really good looking AAA torch though..... Id Love to have one....

Could also get 2x TK35 and 2x TK41 shipped to my door.... with another hundred left over for a V10R Ti ;)

thank you so much for mentioning that!! I never knew there was such thing, I just installed it right now. no more annoying adds for me. Also if you disable third party cookies no websites will be able to track you! I never have any adware now where I used to have a ton before I disabled third party cookies

Traffic there may be down, but when you are on the site there is typically about 300-600 people currently online there.

So traffic at CPF is still higher than BLF by what, about a factor of 20? As I write this there are 612 folks viewing at CPF and19 here at BLF. Personally, I like it here a lot better, but then I like cheap lights!

True but since BLF has only been around for a little over a year--BLF is doing pretty darn good IMO. Give BLF time and there will be more traffic and people here at any given time compared to the other place.

What is strange is that 20% of the 600 are members and the rest are visitors. Or are a lot of members not signing on?

I bet people are afraid to sign up over there because they are afraid of how they will be treated. People sign up here quicker because of the awesome information, great atmosphere and all the nice members (there are a handful of buttheads here too--we know and you know who you are Tongue out) and how people are treated here.

I think people don't like to log in over at CPF because of the huge scary red message they get until they have 3 authorized posts (only in subforums that count).

It's sort of interesting that BLF deals with a retail market that most people do not even know exists: cheap, bright Chinese flashlights.

A rather specialized marketplace, but pretty fascinating. I had never met anyone who had a collection of Chinese-built flashlights until I visited this place.

I didn't have a collection of Chinese built flashlights (to speak of) until I visited this place.

whenwillitendFoy

sorrybutitwillneverendFoy Money mouth

ShortlyaftertheChineserevoltbankruptingusallFoy :P