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« on: January 28, 2022, 10:00:54 »
This forum's first post was made 15 years ago today:

Quote from: grahame on January 28, 2007, 09:19:40
Hello and welcome!

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This site has been set up for CUSTOMERS and WANNABE Customers of First Great Western so that they can exchange views, stories, suggestion - with the ultipmate objective of making positive feedback, actually having the customer listened to and heeded and perhaps coming up with a better rail service for us, and one that's better for the operator, the economy and the environment too.

How similar things look to me today, even in a very different world.  I had a long piece prepared, going further into current issues, but they have been very much covered in recent days and I would risk becoming a squeaky wheel rather than offering an oil can. So that piece is held back.

Although we have comparable issues today, we can look back with great pride at what the wider informed passenger and passenger-aware professionals have achieved.  Many issues remain, but many have not got worse where they could have done, and im many areas things have greatly improved.

If you are a new reader, please take a look around, sign up, comment, join us - we're still needed and going to be around a while yet.  And, just occasionally, we have achieved that original and still-valid objective.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2023, 08:32:53 »
Quote from: grahame on January 28, 2022, 10:00:54
This forum's first post was made 15 years ago today:

Or, now, 16 years ago yesterday and we're into our 17th year!

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Members logged in - last 8 and 24 hours - 17, 84
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847 users in the last 7 days 3k sessions between them. Bounce rate 30.17%
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2023, 11:31:40 »
Over the last 28 days, here are the most visited pages on the Coffee Shop.  First stat on each report line is the number of views - second value is the number of unique views.

1. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=unread 9,771(15.82%) 3,326(7.44%)
This will be members coming to the forum and looking for a list of what they haven't seen yes, as a series of thread subects. 9771/3326 means that on average a member who has been here has been here has been 2.93 times.

2. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/ 3,759(6.08%) 2,261(5.06%)
The "headline" / arrival page - guests and members will come here.  Only one in sixteen page views are here - an amazingly low proportion in my view and suggesting lots of guests as well as members who keep coming back. But see also rankings 4 and 5 below.

3. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=recent 3,629(5.87%) 1,578(3.53%) 
Predominantly members, I suspect, looking at the most recent posts.  Even more immediate than "unread" which was the most visited page, and once again a high ratio of page views to unique views, indicating that people (normally members) keep coming back here

4. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php 3,485(5.64%) 2,119(4.74%) 
5. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/ 3,483(5.64%) 2,339(5.23%)
Home pages again, though typically not arrival pages. Members will transit these pages as they move from one area of the Coffee Shop to another.

6. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=26.0 1,201(1.94%) 925(2.07%)
"Across The West" board - latest index / overview of pinned topic and topics with most recent additions

7. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=recent;start=0 662(1.07%) 443(0.99%) 
8. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=recent;start=10 577(0.93%) 477(1.07%)
The first of these is a duplicate name for No. 3 in the ranking - most recent pages. The second is when people click forward to look not at the most recent 10 contributions, but the ten that came before that.

9. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=21.0 330(0.53%) 260(0.58%)
"Bristol (WECA» (West of England Combined Authority - about)) Commuters" board - latest index / overview of pinned topic and topics with most recent additions

10. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=5.0 313(0.51%) 222(0.50%)
"Buses and other ways to travel" board - latest index / overview of pinned topic and topics with most recent additions

11. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=30.0 304(0.49%) 226(0.51%)
"The lighter side" board - latest index of topics with most recent additions (no pinned topic(s) here!)

12. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=18.0 290(0.47%) 217(0.49%) 
"TransWilts Line" board - latest index / overview of the (3) pinned topics and topics with most recent additions

13. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?www= 290(0.47%) 145(0.32%)
That's an odd one - goes to the home page; I'll go back to the low level logs and see where the page(s) are that point to it, and if they need changing.

14. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=51.0 243(0.39%) 193(0.43%)
"The Wider Picture in the UK▸ (United Kingdom)" board - latest index of topics with most recent additions (no pinned topic(s) here!)

15. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=25.0 238(0.39%) 186(0.42%)
"Plymouth and Cornwall" board - latest index / overview of the (3) pinned topics and topics with most recent additions

16. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=unreadreplies 237(0.38%) 166(0.37%) 

17. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=4.0 226(0.37%) 172(0.38%)
"Fares Fair" board - latest index / overview of the (2) pinned topics and topics with most recent additions

18. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=recent;start=20 225(0.36%) 193(0.43%) 
19. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=unread;all;start=0 220(0.36%) 172(0.38%)

20. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?board=24.0 220(0.36%) 177(0.40%)
"Shorter Journeys in Devon" board - latest index / overview of the pinned topic and topics with most recent additions
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