Happy New Year from the Admin Team

[David Knudsen]

On behalf of the Admin team, I'd like to wish all our members a Happy and Safe New Year!

2013 has been a strong year for the board, in terms of unique visitors and hits it is our second best year on record. We hope to achieve growth in 2014, with some plans in place for advertising to attract new members, at least 2 photo competitions with prizes (which we are currently trying to source) and we hope to have some sort of gathering, be it formal or informal.

Also this year our advertising revenue exceeded our operational costs, allowing for donations to be made to Angel Flight and the RFDS on behalf of the board and it's members.

Finally, a big thank you to all our members that take the time to post articles and share their experiences and knowledge with everyone, without you we wouldn't have this great little community of ours! Also, as always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions as to what can be done to make the board experience better for everyone to be posted in the Admin & Feedback forum, or sent to us directly if you prefer.

Regards,

The Admin Team

Kurt A
Matt Chisholm
David Knudsen
Justin L


Some stats from 2013
Unique Visitors: 250,000+ (Average over 22,000 a month)
Pages Served: 23,000,000+
Hits: 35,000,000+

The average visitor views 7 pages, spending a total time of 5 minutes, 48 seconds doing so.

The most popular browser choices are Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome (In that order).

Outside Australia, we receive the most visits from United States, China, Ukraine, Poland and France.

The busiest months (hit wise) were January, July and November, with the most popular day to visit being a Monday, and the least popular Tuesday.

The most popular thread of this year continued to be the VB/PB Re Branding thread that was started way back in Jan 2011.