Forum:Top refers list - cut in numbers

I've noticed the Top refers list has suddenly cut the numbers of hits for most sites (search engines), but not for Bing (new microsoft search engine), and that some sites come and go including Wikia sites with some updates. Has anybody else noticed this strange behaviour of the figures. Some figures were in the 10-20 K range are now around the 1k mark and oters have dropped from ~ 1k to a few 100. Strange is this behaviour effecting the Bigger wikis with hits of 500k + like the Gaming ones ? has the recording system changed, and dose it actually matter to the site & individual wikis.

- BulldozerD11 14:08, 18 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I actually set up the wiki I administer because I wanted an online place to build an encyclopedia. My main motivation was being able to talk about things elsewhere (like forums and mailing lists) and then provide a link over to an article where the facts were on the page. So I would carry on doing what I am doing if I had 50 visitors, 500 visitors or 5,000 visitors.


 * Having said that, I do find visitor numbers interesting (as it helps show what articles 'work' better) and I have gone as far as working out my wiki's wikiFactor and putting that on the WikiIndex page for my wiki. I've also found a few similar wikis and looked at their wikiFactor.


 * It is probably too late to do it now, but it would be fun to surf over to the websites that have dropped in visitor numbers, search for some of the keywords that relate to those wikis, and see if they are still coming up on the front page of the search results (i.e. search for Toril on Google and see if you see Forgotten Realms Wiki).


 * If Wikia wikis have suddenly dropped down the search engine ranks, then maybe they have written Wikia off as spammers.David Shepheard 23:25, 18 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi David; I commented on it as the figures were more of interest to see were traffics from and as a comparison to other wikis I visit and I woundered if others had noticed the change. I had noticed figures climbing steadily (which looked liki a good sign )! then suddenly they changed completly. The Visitor numbers are not the major motivation for creating the wiki and expanding it. As you it was as a place to collect information in my case that did not totally fit with wikipedia's scope of what is Encyclopedic content and falls into Non notable or too list of for some WP editors. Wikia provided a way to create a site covering a Niche area but more wide ranging than peoples own very one make orientated web sites that appear and I like the idea that others can build it as well from working on wikipedia. I'm a bit disappointed in the number of contributors in away when you look at some of the forums. Which contain great contributions of knowledge but very un accessible long term as the structures chat based in a linear form (and good gets lost in lots of rambling forks). But then forums have a low nuber of quality contributors, a number of occasional ones/ waste of space ones and a whole stack of passive viewers - BulldozerD11 00:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The 'Top refers' list has been broken for quite a while now, and was recently fixed, what your seeing is current data, and not old data piled on top of each other. --Uberfuzzy 23:44, 18 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks Uberfuzy. So do you mean the figures should be a weekly (?) traffic figure and not a running total as I thought they were from the increasing totals id seen since taking an interest in the numbers ?


 * I know there is the Special:most visited pages (or some similar title) shows the pages people are viewing (would be good if it showed the change per week or month) (I did print it once but 12 pages when the wiki was about a 1/3 as big its not practical to do regularly as the wiki grows).


 * So am I right to assume the special:.....pages are working correctly for info as the only way of finding out 'Problems' appears to be to trawl through all these central pages, as there does not appear to be a system of informing each wiki's admins of problems with the site.


 * Comment : - The notification message system appears to be broke (e.g just got a note on UK roads about the 'New visual editor' days after the thing landed and I was presented with the new fangled editor when i tried to edit a page) and Id not seen any messages sine the one about the Parser upgrade thing i think. So can the notification/message system be updated to send messages to Admins main Wiki rather than some other wiki they edited on for a bit in the past ?

-- BulldozerD11 00:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)