Forum:Biostar Traffic - Just How Many Bioinformaticians Are Out There?

Question

[Istvan Albert]

Time for the periodic traffic report ;-)

I was recently asked about how many bioinformaticians might be out there, and how many of them visit Biostar in a single day. Then the question turned to whether we saturate already. This prompted me to do a year-over-year comparison over the month of September. Turns out there seem to be tens of thousands of us out there and about five thousand visit in a day. Moreover we get twice as many unique visitors as the year before.

Then occurred to me, the bioinformatics community itself is not a static entity, it is growing and fast. As long as the site is useful we won't probably ever saturate.

[Nicolas Rosewick]

So the conclusion of this graph : during weekends bioinformatician are sleeping ( or partying )

[Sudeep]

Is this the same trend if you add 2011 data as well ?

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

To answer the comment by Sudeep , I am unable to plot on the same graph as the domain name has changed and the interface cannot combine across domain names.

But I looked at the year 2011 separately (see below) and the growth seems to be accelerating.

The number of monthly unique visitors were 28K in 2011, 36K in 2012 and 73K in 2013

[Sudeep]

Cool, so the community is rapidly growing :)