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Post by gazz on Feb 5, 2014 7:39:56 GMT
Hi, everyone. There is something we neglected to explain regarding the whole 'ad-free page views' issue. You will notice at the bottom of the home page that there is a site counter, where it displays various stats regarding this forum. Also, if you click on the counter itself you can visit the County Heaven counter account page and see detailed information regarding how many visits the new forum has received since it was started. If you see the stat that says 'pages', you will see that it has clocked over 31,000 so far. However, that is only counting hits to the home page of the forum, and doesn't include subsequent clicks within the forum itself.
Indeed, if you were to navigate to and stay on any given match thread for example, and continued refreshing that thread for updates or even visit the C.H.A.O.S section of the site and visit the various categories within, each time you click on a new page, it counts as a 'page view', but not as a stat counter page view. The counter does not monitor activity within the pages of the forum. So if you see talk of 50,000 page views being added each month and then wonder why the stat counter is still only showing a considerably lower number, that is why. It is a front page counter only.
We apologise for not explaining this sooner, and we hope this clears things up for anyone who has sat there scratching their heads wondering why we've been accepting page-view donations.
Cheers.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Feb 5, 2014 21:32:24 GMT
Gazza, I looked at the site for the first time on a laptop yesterday and explored the stats section. Made fascinating reading i must say. Thanks once more for helping to create it
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Post by gazz on Feb 5, 2014 22:11:48 GMT
More than happy to help, Duds!
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Feb 24, 2014 10:16:31 GMT
Morning, all.
Eagle-eyed Heaveners will have noticed that, as we approach the end of this month, adverts have re-appeared on the forum. This is due to our now having exceeded the number of page-views for which we have paid in February.
We COULD, if we chose to do so, continue to be ad-free for the remainder of the month - but, given that this would necessitate purchasing (and, in effect, wasting many of) another 50,000 views, your friendly neighbourhood Admins recommend that we leave the ads here for the next five days, and grin and bear it until Saturday,when March begins and we can put our ads-free fund to far better longer-term use.
We hope that you will share our view that this is the most pragmatic course of action for the short period up to midnight on Friday. The good news is that, thanks to the generosity of a number of Heaveners, we currently have sufficient funds to ensure that CH remains ad-free for the best part of the next twelve months!
Cheers,
Macc
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Post by gazz on Feb 24, 2014 10:46:53 GMT
Thanks, Maccy. Can I just point out to everyone that no matter how many ad-free page views we apply to a given month, they always expire at the end of that month and do not carry over, and with the minimum number you can apply per month being, 50,000 (the amount we applied at the beginning of this month), if the admins had applied another 50,000 last night there would be a hell of a lot of wasted page views.
Of the 50,000 applied, we averaged around 2,174 page views per day this month, which would mean that if we had applied a further 50k, we would only use around 11,000 or so between now and midnight on Friday, meaning around 39,000 of someone's donation would be wasted.
Cheers.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Feb 24, 2014 15:57:42 GMT
Sounds like a very commonsense approach.
Well done fellow admins.
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Post by Epworth Hatter OLD account on Feb 24, 2014 20:40:08 GMT
Fine for me, although I have just bought a new car, booked a holiday and claimed compensation for an accident I didn't have and PPI I didn't take out.
Curse you banner advertisers and your irresistible flashy lights!
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Feb 24, 2014 21:02:50 GMT
Think we ought to give this Pro-Boards.Com a chance.
What do you think, guys and gals ?
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Post by gazz on Feb 24, 2014 21:29:35 GMT
Think we ought to give this Pro-Boards.Com a chance. What do you think, guys and gals ? Hmm, I dunno, Lennie. They sound dodgy to me, I've been hearing good things about Yuku myself, but what do I know?!
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Post by dudleyhatter on Feb 24, 2014 22:06:35 GMT
Doesn't Auntie Beeb not have a space for us?
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Post by gazz on Feb 24, 2014 22:18:39 GMT
Doesn't Auntie Beeb not have a space for us? Good call, Duds, count me in!
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Post by gazz on Apr 1, 2014 0:37:01 GMT
Yes there are ads, we're just waiting on Fudgie to apply more paid page views........... ahem......... fudgie?!
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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2014 10:00:08 GMT
Done it now mate!
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Post by gazz on Apr 1, 2014 11:26:39 GMT
Cheers, matey!
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Post by gazz on Jun 1, 2014 0:50:31 GMT
Quick heads up:
The ads have appeared as it's the beginning of a new month, but don't worry, they will be gone soon for our registered members. We're just waiting for Fudgie to do the honours and apply another month's worth of page views.
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