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The views expressed on this page by users and staff are their own, not those of NamePros.
The activity percentages are more meaningful and accurate than the traffic. Actions on NamePros are essentially all performed by real people (99.99%?) thanks to years of tech development, whereas visits include all sorts of robots (e.g., crawlers). As we mentioned, moderators don't have access to Google Analytics, but the data is not comparable in the way you want, anyway.

Here's a simplified way to think about it: do you want the domain name with 1000 visits and 0 clicks, or the domain with 10 visits and 5 clicks, if you're purely interested in domain monetization? The latter.

Alexa.com is not necessarily less accurate either, for the reasons we mentioned and because Alexa tries to approximate the true value, whereas Google Analytics only reports what it sees and does not try to account for the significant amount of traffic that it doesn't see (e.g., due to being blocked by a browser/extension, which again, is not consistent over time and therefore cannot simply be ignored or factored out of the equation).

We hope that helps.

If you have to choose just one data parameter to compare sites, that would be number of unique visitors. That is the hardest parameter to grow too.

I am surprised you are making secret out of it. I assume your advertisers expect you to share this number, not how many likes were given, how many posts and pms were posted...
 
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Congrats Namepros! Ranking higher than Bitcointalk. Let's make domaining as popular as cryptocurrencies! :xf.smile:
 
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That is really interesting, @Grilled. Not surprised that USA is about 29% but somewhat surprised how high India is (but maybe higher percentage Chrome with Alexa browser extension there?). No doubt India is more and more important in domain business as @Michael noted in a recent interview with @equity78 . So Canada is way less, but does its inclusion mean it is the third highest contributor to the stats, and all other countries are less than 3.7% of total? Would seem surprising if so, perhaps. Like UK, China, Germany etc. less. Go Canada :xf.smile:.
Bob
 
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so namepros has a lot of traffic
congrats

why should I care?

the only one who benefits is the one selling stuff here
like R.M.

was really quite here for a while .. enjoy it
 
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why should I care?

Because your 8,000+ posts helped achieve that.

So did r.m's. and r.j's, heck, there might even be a rob(a-z) helping to contribute here.

The point being, namePros wouldn't be the same without you @frank-germany ...

Like it or not, you have become a lot of folks go-to german guy around here.

the only one who benefits is the one selling stuff here

I've bought into some of what you've post. Albeit never a .de domain, but I do appreciate your opinions and viewpoints.

Do online friends/acquaintances count as a benefit? or being apart of a niche community?
 
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Out of curiosity, we looked at the numbers reported by our forum software.

From July 2019 to July 2020:
  • 10.0% increase in active members, which is limited by market size.
  • 13.0% increase in new posts, which include new threads.
  • 15.0% increase in new reactions.
  • 18.0% increase in new direct messages.
  • 26.0% increase in new attachments.
  • 36.0% increase in new status updates.
These are increases in producing content; the vast majority of visitors to user-generated websites solely consume content and do not produce it.

As for why it feels the way it does, @Grilled may be right:

Generally, we try not to look at the numbers too often because we're focused on improving and providing value; we believe the rest will follow. With that in mind, the tech team is working hard on a lot of new advancements and features that we hope will make NamePros even more useful and rewarding.

We look forward to sharing them with you all soon. :)

yup that’s about the time when Epik got pretty popular.

And Robs twitter problem lol
 
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That is really interesting, @Grilled. Not surprised that USA is about 29% but somewhat surprised how high India is (but maybe higher percentage Chrome with Alexa browser extension there?). No doubt India is more and more important in domain business as @Michael noted in a recent interview with @equity78 . So Canada is way less, but does its inclusion mean it is the third highest contributor to the stats, and all other countries are less than 3.7% of total? Would seem surprising if so, perhaps. Like UK, China, Germany etc. less. Go Canada :xf.smile:.
Bob

Having high India traffic ratio almost ensures warped Alexa ranking towards greatly overestimating it.

As the ratio of people engaged in web related services are very high there, they also tend to install Alexa way more than people in the West would.

On the other hand, Alexa could be wrong about NP geography completely, as a consequence of the same issue with skewed preference for Alexa geographically, Alexa is completely off about geography of visitors.

According to Alexa, for Rightbrand the main traffic source is India too with 41%.

Reality? India is number 3 at just 5%, with US being #1 with 35% and Canada #2 with 9%.

So it overestimated India traffic by 8 (!) times, again because of overrepresentation of Alexa toolbars in that geography.

Here is the screenshot of my stats for last 3 months by country.


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so namepros has a lot of traffic
congrats
why should I care?

I tend to agree with this. Especially since the industry already has too many "suppliers" (all of us are, lol) and so it is not obvious that an increased number of new participants is beneficial for the industry (as a group) or to any individual participant. Registrars and other service providers are natural exception.... On the other hand, competition is fine. Where would the industry be should there still be just 1 team ( Yun Ye + tons number of employees who handregged netsol drops in 1990something and monetized the result with generic yahoo feed - short but basically correct description of the "roots")? Hope that the content posted may at least prevent some newbies from thinking that they can make a lot of $$$ fast and with little or no effort.

Alexa screenshot suggests that the forum has a lot of visitors from India. A great country, and an origin of a lot of highly gifted persons well known worldwide - no doubts. At the same time, various analysts report that a great %%% of spam and other questionable stuff are from India : - (

A benefit of a large forum (from a practical point of view) is that if one has a problem (bad customer service received from this or that supplier, or more deep problems), should it posted here, this will definitely help to resolve an issue. Posting the same on a personal blog may not be noticed by anybody. So is general fraud detection like known cases of shill bidding - came to light only because of this forum.
 
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A benefit of a large forum (from a practical point of view) is that if one has a problem (bad customer service received from this or that supplier, or more deep problems), should it posted here, this will definitely help to resolve an issue. Posting the same on a personal blog may not be noticed by anybody. So is general fraud detection like known cases of shill bidding - came to light only because of this forum.

Agreed.
 
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Because your 8,000+ posts helped achieve that.

So did r.m's. and r.j's, heck, there might even be a rob(a-z) helping to contribute here.

The point being, namePros wouldn't be the same without you @frank-germany ...

Like it or not, you have become a lot of folks go-to german guy around here.



I've bought into some of what you've post. Albeit never a .de domain, but I do appreciate your opinions and viewpoints.

Do online friends/acquaintances count as a benefit? or being apart of a niche community?

thanks @Grilled

agreed

but all this is happening w/o a lot of additional traffic from search engines
 
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Congress to NamePros Family.

We always have a 100% positive response of every post. Great Team.

Thanks
 
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According to Alexa, for Rightbrand the main traffic source is India too with 41%.

Reality? India is number 3 at just 5%, with US being #1 with 35% and Canada #2 with 9%.

So it overestimated India traffic by 8 (!) times, again because of overrepresentation of Alexa toolbars in that geography.
Alexa is least accurate for websites with low traffic because it lacks sufficient data to estimate their traffic.
 
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Alexa is least accurate for websites with low traffic because it lacks sufficient data to estimate their traffic.

Not sure what you are implying here.

I wouldn't call 100k+ over 3 months "low traffic".

I have a site that gets millions of visitors a year and Alexa is as wrong in that range.

If you had access to np ga stats, and something tells me you don't, you would see that Alexa is grossly inaccurate there too. I am positive Indian traffic is closer to 10%, not 40%.
 
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https://blog.alexa.com/top-6-myths-about-the-alexa-traffic-rank/
Myth #5: If my site’s traffic goes up on a particular day, my rank will automatically get better.

Not necessarily. The global Alexa Rank is updated daily, but it is based on visitors to your website over the trailing 3 months. So, a day’s worth of traffic is about 1/90th of all the traffic used to rank your site. Also, a site’s rank is relative to other sites. So, changes in traffic to other sites affects your site’s rank as well.
 
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why should I care?
Reach and opportunity.

As NamePros grows, the community can benefit from more:
  1. Viewers of your content (e.g., your viewpoints, marketplace activities, contests, and signature)
  2. Networking opportunities (e.g., shared-interest relationships, partnerships, and career opportunities)
  3. Shared knowledge and news (e.g., stay informed on best practices, trends, strategy, sales, analysis, and tools)
  4. Advice and support (e.g., fresh ideas, perspectives, and lesson-filled experiences)
  5. Financial trades (e.g., buying and selling)
  6. Confidence in yourself and others
  7. Recognition and status
Not all of these will apply to everyone, but the opportunities exist.

The unique benefit of communities is that our success as a platform is dependent on yours and the value that we provide you. It's a mutually-beneficial relationship. :)
 
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That means namepros have a great flow of visitors, People try to sell domains in this rush and I appreciate the efforts of namepros
 
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Congratulations @NamePros 🙏
Miles to go.

Best Wishes 😇
 
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Congratulations nP* - and be sure, you* are always welcome to enter the top

*founder(s), owner(s), employee(s) and of course all members & readers
 
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