Quote from shortie:
this sounds right.
riskfree, good calls recently but 40 mil views was a slight exaggeration on your part![]()
Quote from HolyGrail:
That is not true. It doesn't matter which page you go to elitetrader.com gets credit for the hit because all of its subpages have elitetrader.com in it.
Quote from riskfreetrading:
HG:
In my mind there are three reading or material on this site:
1. A member who enters, and sign or have a cookie and therefore is automatically signed. That I understand.
2. A non-member who visits elitetrader.com. If a non-member visits, does the non-member register as visit? Pls. indicate if your answer is you understand or if it is a fact (if a fact, please let me know the basis of this).
3. A member who visits, but does not sign it. We here in situation number 2. It happens to me a lot.
4. Those who read the material from cached matrial, and in mirror sites, blogs, etc. These readers are impossible to capture.
But elitetrader.com rank is very high (20K). It has steady daily traffic. To give an example the last time I checked marketwatch.com is ranked something around 1K. The ranking is not linear.
What I wrote is what I found on Alexa, which I believe is the authority on web traffic.
Quote from HolyGrail:
Web statistics are not kept as to who is a member and who is just visiting. These statistics are possible if you use a paid webstat monitor. It is also possible to keep statistics for every page or forum heading. This is also typically a paid for service.
The non-paid web statisticians(alexa) keep track of page views. Any page that has the source or root directory will get credited with the hit. Every single page of this website has the root of elitetrader.com in it. Every page that gets viewed no matter where it comes from will be counted in the views.
I know this because I have owned more than 3 websites in my lifetime, and I still own one for my business.
edit: if you want detailed statistics the webstat company has to place html or java instructions in the code of your board.