Just because I'm a curious type, is it possible for you to post some site stats?
Unique visitor over a typical 24 period?
Click through rate?
Length of stay?
stuff like that.
The only analytics I've ever seen for the sight are based on the very basic free Google analytics. I rarely check them though because they don't really seem to give me any useful info. They are more geared towards sites with sales and click through advertising (adsense, etc,...).
The forum has some basic statistics info though.
Currently, the record for online users in a 24 hr period stands at 8270 on 01-22-2016. That is total visitors and not just registered users. The Google numbers also don't distinguish between registered users and just any other visitor. According to the forum, we average about 550-650 registered users every 24 hours. That has been pretty consistent since about 2006. From 2008 through early 2013, we were seeing about 750-950 per day. I have no idea why, but around early to mid 2013, it dropped back down around the 550-650 range again.
Of the over 18.5K active accounts (those still having working emails and which have not been set to inactive), there are maybe 3000 or so that get on the forum within any 6 month period. What generally happens is that people sign up, are active for a year or two, and then fade away. Sometimes it is because of changes in circumstances in their lives and others because something else catches their attention. It is not uncommon for people to come back later even after several years of being gone. There is also a core of people that have been here a long time and which have been pretty active the whole time.
I don't have anything about length of time per stay, particular pages most visited, etc,... When you are viewing the main forum listing page if you look to the right of the list of forum sections, you can see the number of threads and posts in that forum. When viewing the list of threads in a forum, if you look to the right, you will see the number of replies and views. You may notice that the "replies" is a link. Clicking it will bring up a box showing who has replied and how many times they have replied. The number of posts shown in that box is also clickable and will bring up every post by that user within that thread. That all helps me see which forum/threads are popular.
I have a feature in the admin control panel that lets me look at a particular user and see a break down of where they are posting. It shows how many threads/posts they have in each forum and also breaks it down by percentage. This is useful for seeing if people tend to use the whole forum or just camp out somewhere like the OT section all the time.
New registrations have been running around 100-150/mo for a long time. For some reason, 2008 had registrations running around 350-400/month. Those numbers can be skewed by spammers though. Even if I nuke the spam accounts, I think they still count as registrations. Spammers tend to come in waves though. They might hit real heavy for a month or two, then go way down for a while. Legitimate accounts may range from 5-10 a day or so. Things like rallies might cause a short spike.
The most read thread on the entire forum is the Bandit MEGA thread. It has brought in member from ALL over the world.
One stat that is kind of interesting is the number of Forum Supporters. I think the highest number of supporters we've ever had at one time was around 160. A supporter term is one month. Some people donate once. Some donate monthly. Some donate for a full year all at once. Like other users, supporters come and go. I have no idea how many of the total number of active users accounts have EVER been a supporter. I can only see how many are currently supporters. That number has been holding around 130-145 for a long time, regardless of changes in the number of active user accounts. There are a good number of them that have been long time supporters for many years. It is those people that have kept the site going. Their support far outweighs what little money I get from paid advertising. To be fair though, I don't aggressively seek out advertising.
Another "stat" if you will has to do with user management. In the 13 years I've been running the forum, I think have actually outright banned maybe 3-4 people, if that. There have been a handful that have requested that I remove their accounts, some because they were miffed at the way I run the forum and some just because they had moved on to other hobbies. No doubt, there have also just been a few that may have disapproved of how something is done or was handled and they just quietly went away. You can't please everyone
There is also the issue of in person user issues. Despite the impression some people might get from poking their heads in the Off Topic forum and seeing a FEW people going at each other, I cannot think of a single event/ride/meet that I have been to where a TWT user caused problems. I have never seen anyone drunken and obnoxious. I have never seen any serious/reckless riding. I've never seen strong personalities that refused to get along. I've never failed to see riders going out of their way to help other riders in need. Those are the things I really enjoy about our community of riders.