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Haggai · April 7, 2011, 7:43am

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? :))

edc · April 7, 2011, 7:45am

I laughed!

fishinfool · April 7, 2011, 11:37am

I'm not surprised.

sb56637 · April 7, 2011, 2:24pm

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

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

okwchin · April 7, 2011, 2:50pm

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 ;)

cessnapilot · April 8, 2011, 9:29pm

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

trooplewis · April 9, 2011, 4:19am

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!

fishinfool · April 9, 2011, 9:12am

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.

edc · April 9, 2011, 9:50am

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?

fishinfool · April 9, 2011, 9:59am

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.

Haggai · April 9, 2011, 11:02am

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).

trooplewis · April 9, 2011, 4:15pm

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.

Foy · April 9, 2011, 8:07pm

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

whenwillitendFoy

fishinfool · April 10, 2011, 7:35am

sorrybutitwillneverendFoy

Piers · April 11, 2011, 1:57pm

ShortlyaftertheChineserevoltbankruptingusallFoy :P

sb56637 · April 11, 2011, 2:02pm

As Foy said in a recent review, "The Chinese are coming". And they have filled my shelf with some pretty nice flashlights.

fishinfool · April 12, 2011, 7:46am

Chinese products: Can't live with them... Can't live without them...

rizky_p · April 12, 2011, 7:57am

i wonder that too. how far has CPF lost its traffic? it seems soo quite there.

nightcrawler · April 14, 2011, 3:29am

Just wanted to chime in with an observation here. I've followed CPF's traffic levels for many years now, and I've seen a real change in the numbers of 'active members' the site has since they came back online after the server crash. It's been over a month since things restarted there and they are getting about 7150 active members per month. While this is down a bit from what it had been historically (more like 9000), it doesn't tell the real story.

Don't know about this site, but I manually approve all registrations to FNF, so I see every spam registration. We're seeing about 5 spammers a day try to register to the site. FF.com, on the other hand, has had over 500 spam registrations over the same period (about 40 a day.) Because of CPF's long history and size, my best guess is that they get at least that many per day. Because of the way they handle spam accounts, these 'members' probably show in their 'active' list...meaning that 7150 figure is probably inflated by 1500 or more.

Now I admit I'm not privy to how the forum software at CPF calculates 'active members', so this is mostly conjecture on my part, but it would be consistent with what you guys are seeing as far as posting activity goes. Looks to me like they really took a hit over the down time and lost posts (and the growth of BLF, as well!)

All I do know for a fact is that we are now at a point with the flashlight enthusiast community where if the ownership of CPF closed things down, the hobby would still have several sites to carry on the fight. And that makes me a very, very happy boy .

sb56637 · April 14, 2011, 4:22am

Hi there Nightcrawler. I think you're probably right with your assessment of CPF's membership. Actually our member count here is somewhat inflated too, because we have blocked spammers as well. I don't know why the forum software counts blocked users in the member count. We went through a few months of bigtime SPAM registrations, followed by a lull in the storm. I hope it stays that way.