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Greetings Peakers, Just a quick update on the recent flood of new visitors.
A big ole' welcome to reality to our new guests, & a sincere thank you to our long standing members.
Peak Oil may well be the fly in humanities ointment, but as the old saying goes,
"The journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single footstep."

Oh what a difference a day makes.
New Members:


Traffic:

I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?

Holy snikies. Can we get a longer graph? Perhaps going all the way back to the beginning? I just wanna see how significant these past few days have been in comparison to other big days.

Aaron wrote:Greetings Peakers, Just a quick update on the recent flood of new visitors.
A big ole' welcome to reality to our new guests, & a sincere thank you to our long standing members.
Peak Oil may well be the fly in humanities ointment, but as the old saying goes,
"The journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single footstep."
Oh what a difference a day makes. -snip-

I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?

And if the server was a bit quicker, the traffic figures would probably be a lot higher still.

1 Year (aprox)

And if the server was a bit quicker, the traffic figures would probably be a lot higher still.

working...

Thank you Associated Press.

Absolute Unique Visitors

Aaron wrote:1 Year (aprox)

Peak Traffic.

Is there anyway of knowing if this was the largest day in PO.com history? If it wasn't, which day was?

3aidlillahi wrote:Is there anyway of knowing if this was the largest day in PO.com history? If it wasn't, which day was?

By about 500 to 600% yeah.

I personally think that much of the credit should go to my wife for her eloquent doomer statements in the article. My hat is off to you my dear little Lumpster.

DomusAlbion wrote:I personally think that much of the credit should go to my wife for her eloquent doomer statements in the article. My hat is off to you my dear little Lumpster.

Indeed... nice piece. Errr... article that is.

The graph is perfect.

Now it matches the graph for . . .

history of energy per capita
world population
natural gas prices
total bank borrowing from Fed Reserve
foreclosure rate


. . . things are lining up.

Aaron wrote:

3aidlillahi wrote:Is there anyway of knowing if this was the largest day in PO.com history? If it wasn't, which day was?

By about 500 to 600% yeah.

Why does it say "Most users ever online was 960 on Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:06 pm"?
Was there some form of stress testing going on at the time?

davep wrote:Why does it say "Most users ever online was 960 on Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:06 pm"? Was there some form of stress testing going on at the time?

That's not accurate obviously.

Aaron wrote:That's not accurate obviously.

Oh, I was living under the illusion that there was some kind of event that brought in hoards of new people on that day. I guess it's only obvious to those who know.
Anyway, congratulations on the popularity. I somehow feel that it'll be the first of many spikes.

Appropriately enough, there will be a corresponding exponential decline in activity. Most of those visitors would have clicked out of curiosity and left. Not to detract from the achievement, that's just slashdotting for you. We will see repeats in future I'm sure.

Twilight wrote:Appropriately enough, there will be a corresponding exponential decline in activity. Most of those visitors would have clicked out of curiosity and left. Not to detract from the achievement, that's just slashdotting for you. We will see repeats in future I'm sure.

They dropped the story into the holiday weekend in order to soften the splash.

People haven't grasped the gravity of the situation yet. The IEA has turned.

Think again Twilight. You sure the activity is going to taper off much? I'm nearly 100% in agreement with your posts, but on this point I'm taking the opposite corner.

Yeah, much of the traffic will click and leave, but there are plenty more out there, so I think your future repeats are going to come hot and heavy and on a steep upward trajectory.

We'll add a zero here shortly...and then another.

Sustained traffic isn't the whole story. It's the meme. If people start to turn the corner in believing peak oil, it will become the topic du jour over the watercooler. So there could be a good cascade of effect from this as it filters out through the mainstream.

MD wrote:They dropped the story into the holiday weekend in order to soften the splash.

Yes, the timing may be a little curious from an American point of view, but the rest of the world does not necessarily celebrate Memorial Day