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 | |||
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United States | us | 132273 | 984700 | 12.42 GB |    |
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Great Britain | gb | 30249 | 248324 | 2.96 GB | |
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Germany | de | 25529 | 221454 | 2.73 GB | |
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Australia | au | 18067 | 202658 | 1.84 GB | |
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Canada | ca | 17407 | 183345 | 2.01 GB | |
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Czech Republic | cz | 13832 | 31291 | 732.48 MB | |
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Spain | es | 12436 | 164333 | 1.50 GB | |
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Argentina | ar | 6899 | 27343 | 418.31 MB | |
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Sweden | se | 6546 | 51798 | 651.61 MB | |
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Russian Federation | ru | 6021 | 45478 | 563.52 MB | |
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Slovenia | si | 5872 | 37677 | 596.65 MB | |
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China | cn | 4494 | 41790 | 413.22 MB | |
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European country | eu | 4214 | 25628 | 336.05 MB | |
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Norway | no | 3614 | 35215 | 398.66 MB | |
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Japan | jp | 3134 | 38574 | 427.14 MB | |
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Poland | pl | 2800 | 43264 | 405.54 MB | |
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Israel | il | 2763 | 34059 | 288.73 MB | |
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Singapore | sg | 2760 | 30069 | 336.26 MB | |
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India | in | 2708 | 20366 | 261.30 MB | |
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Greece | gr | 2668 | 43849 | 309.06 MB | |
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Italy | it | 2590 | 21497 | 269.97 MB | |
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France | fr | 2471 | 22193 | 261.70 MB | |
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Croatia | hr | 2462 | 30919 | 321.95 MB | |
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Finland | fi | 2108 | 25350 | 264.76 MB | |
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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 
) 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 
ShortlyaftertheChineserevoltbankruptingusallFoy :P
As Foy said in a recent review, "The Chinese are coming". 
And they have filled my shelf with some pretty nice flashlights.
Chinese products: Can't live with them... Can't live without them...