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Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this.

These are our stats for minecraftforum.net (last 30 days):

> Visits: 33,793,899 > Unique Visitors: 11,094,806

A forum for an indie game is half the size of 4chan; the biggest western forum. Pretty neat. We're also bigger than 4chan in the UK. I'm not sure if this makes 4chan small or Minecraft huge :p

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this. These are our stats for minecraftforum.net (last 30 days): > Visits: 33,793,899 > Unique Visitors: 11,094,806 A forum for an indie game is half the size of 4chan; the biggest western forum. Pretty neat. We're also bigger than 4chan in the UK. I'm not sure if this m…

If you look at ClouldFlare's report, Google Analytics misses at least 30% of the pageviews, so there's a good chunk of unaccounted visitors. You are more like a third/quarter the size.

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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post #4

4chan uses google analytics? doesn't the free version stop at 10M pages? Does 4chan pay 150K/year for google analytics?

If you have an adWords account, you get to exceed that limit.

They removed that part from their Terms of Service.

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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post #9

How on earth does Cloudfare survive charging $200 for nearly 2PB of traffic? Is the profiling/retargeting business really that lucrative? Do big accounts like that have some kind of revshare deal or mandatory link skimming?

Where are you getting $200 from?
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